Fasting‚ Feasting Topics for Discussion Discuss what you think the author really means by "fasting" and "feasting." What are the physical and emotional implications of each? How do you think the story would have been different if it had been Uma who had gone to America instead of Arun? Do you think Anamika and Aruna ended up having better lives than Uma did? Explain why or why not. What commonalities do you see in the dynamics of both families? What things are vastly different? Discuss the importance
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Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting Abstract: Several postcolonial and diasporic writers have articulated the complex relationship of food to nation‚ culture and diaspora‚ while many others have taken into account the ways in which gender‚ sex‚ class and race gets produced and articulated through culinary negotiations. The culinary becomes a site of struggle for both the nation-state and its subjects who are to be contained within structures of heterosexual patriarchy. Anita Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting (1999)
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Review: Fasting‚ Feasting by Anita Desai The most recent novel of Indian born author Anita Desai‚ Fasting‚ Feasting (1999) tells the story of two middle-class families and the allegorical struggles of the individual members to find individual identity and happiness. This meticulously constructed prose gravitates towards the position of women in the family unit and explores socially ordered gender imbalance in domestic life. Featuring a traditional Indian family in provincial town India and a typical
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Part 1‚ Chapters 1 and 2 Summary Anita Desai’s novel of intricate family relations plays out in two countries‚ India and the United States. The core characters comprise a family living in a small town in India‚ where provincial customs and attitudes dictate the futures of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible. The story contrasts the life of the main character‚ Uma‚ the family’s older daughter‚ with Arun‚ the boy and baby of the family. Uma spends
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Fasting‚ Feasting Style Point of View The novel is written in the third person limited point of view. This means that the author tells the story from an objective position‚ as if viewing the story ’s events without benefit of any thoughts or feelings coming directly from the individual characters. The author presents the chain of events in the story and then interjects what the characters may be thinking or experiencing based on their reactions‚ facial expression‚ and tone of voice. This point
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Health Benefits of Fasting The Health Benefits of Fasting Will Carroll There has been much contention in the scientific field about whether or not fasting is beneficial to one’s health. Fasting is an integral part of many of the major religions including Islam‚ Judaism and Christianity. Many are dubious as to whether the physiological effects are as beneficial as the spiritual promoted by these religions. There is a significant community of alternative healers who believe that fasting can do wonders
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Commit to Fasting: Renew your Mind‚ Body and Spirit Do you want to feel better‚ live longer‚ and experience mental clarity? Fasting is one of the best ways to lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes; it’s also an excellent method to develop self-restrain and spiritual enlightenment. According to the Dalai Lama‚ “The key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. This is obtained by developing our good human qualities.”(96). Fasting is an excellent practice that helps
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Anita Desai deals with the theme of family by sharing the interactions or the lack of them between family members. She does so by using words which relate to food and the passage from page 194 “Arun sits in front of his bowl of dhal” to the end of 195‚ is significant to the rest of the novel because it shows the relationships the family has with each other and it helps the reader understand the book better. To begin with‚ Anita Desai explores the relationships of characters by referring to the
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Is Fasting for Christians? IN ANSWER to that question you may have been told: “Yes‚ for Jesus recommended fasting for his followers.” If you are a practicing Catholic‚ you would respond in the affirmative‚ for you recognize certain fast days‚ and in particular you always fast before taking “Holy Communion.” Did Jesus really recommend or command fasting for his followers? In the instances recorded in the Bible‚ fasting was done as an expression of sorrow and repentance for sins or when under distressing
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Fasting and Solitude Fasting and Solitude are both spiritual disciplines that help us to be more like Christ. Fasting has to deal with one abstaining from nourishment. Next‚ biblical fasting is associated with solemn periods of prayer. The more solemnly we appeal to prayer in addition to fasting‚ the profound the consequences we will meet. Fasting in the body makes us proficient to stand against the temptations of the flesh. Solitude is a fundamental discipline of self-denial. In which one avoids
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