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Themes: Man up Ideal = docile, submissive, polite (in formative years) but counterproductive as an independent adult Be kind, sensitive, Romantic etc but still get your work done exploring and analyzing gender roles Have an opinion Transformation: From a weakling to a man who does what needs to be done, by himself Role of Boy: (Pothuraju) Spark, inspiration Role of Grandfather: keeps saying "you can't do it" until, in the end, he does do it, and then he's like "I knew he could do it", i.e. " Sabaas " Purushottam means ideal man, but he was not lacked resolve, and decision-making ability

Key words/ phrases: holocaust narrative relocation to the ghetto survival dominating living W.R.T. VISUAL NARRATIVE minimum dialogue - relies on visuals Click here to read synopsis Richard Schickel of TIME Magazine lauds the film, saying, “We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies.” The Pianist is NOT a cookie-cutter tear-jerking holocaust film. It is silencing, shocking, horrifying, quiet, truthful, hopeful, objective and riveting and will permanently alter your notions of people of the Holocaust. This film is an ode to pure chance, as is explained by the tagline of the film, “Music was his passion; Survival was his masterpiece” which fits Wladyslaw Szpilman’s life story perfectly. Just as in a symphony a number of separate runs contribute to a harmony, numerous truly fortunate and random series of events led to his continued survival. Szpilman is not a conventional hero. He is not a knight in shining armor to a...

Themes: Poverty Frustration about poverty Hunger (seen through all the detailing about vadais ) embarrassment * guilt about buying perfectly good human food for a rat * what goes around comes around - Ganesan knows the rat will return - "not the gutter this time... off to the maidan... at least a week..." (page 113) * you miss the inconveniences too, when they're gone * author playing with brevity and conciseness of form while portraying complexity of character * poverty and one's inability to do much about it

QUICK REVISION Themes: fate destiny no control over circumstances finality time everything ends grief end of a relationship trinity Tone Progression: numbness clumsiness, shakiness desperation closure indifference Use of Nature: cold autumn (separation, death) darkness (no hope) * feminist, war, random Soviet perspectives * reference to real-life situation  CONTEXT: (She met a young poet, Nikolay Gumilev , on Christmas Eve 1903, who encouraged her to write and pursued her intensely, making numerous marriage proposals from 1905. At 17 years old, in his journal Sirius, she published her first poem which could be translated asOn his hand are many shiny rings, (1907) signing it "Anna G." She soon became known in St Petersburg's artistic circles, regularly giving public readings. That year, she wrote unenthusiastically to a friend, “He has loved me for three years now, and I believe that it is my fate to be his wife. Whe...