EN 276 Lecture 17: Earth 1947 part 2
19 Oct 2016
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Shanta and lenny get their palms read. Sell/let birds go free to get money from white women. Dinalaz speaks to allah for the people. Gets paid in coins and uses telephone to contact allah. Girls get married off at age 16. Pappu: young girl getting married to old man. Men make comments about lenny wanting english pudding. They have to take all their possessions and walk to another part of india. Maloutas and gupitas (hindu) left for amistar. British split up country and called it independence. Families either leave to go to india or pakistan. Muslims were slaughtered: men, women, and children. Lenny"s mother tells shanta she could leave because of the increasing violence. She decides to stay with her family. Mussalmans lighting houses and people on fire. Violence is like a lion in a cage. When in cage, it is contained and under control.
