ENGB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Hungry Tide
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Sacrifice: kanai learns fear, piya finds home. Jungle judges you: saves piya, kanai faces the tiger he faces his own ugliness. Demon: fokir teaches lessons, he doesn"t learn from piya, fokir dies, sacrifices himself. Political dilemma: ecology vs. development, tigers, humans vs. animals, 1979 massacre of morrichapi. Piya in the beginning she likes the tea here: tea making a new community, new friends. Piya learns about community, she finally finds a home! Sundarbans: must make new connections, piya self reliant, but you need ppl, must depend on ppl. All 3, (piya kanai, nirmal) go in this journey: piya falls into the water initially into murky water. Sundarbans are where people learn about themselves: journey to sundarbans is journey to the self, educated middle class learn lessons unavailable to them in society. Piya: piya says dolphins are her home, comes back in the end.
