SAST 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-20: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Megaphone, Making Money
23 Oct 2016
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Lenny and family (cid:523)adi (cid:523)lenny(cid:495)s brother, lighter skin, healthy, can do what aunt, ayah (cid:523)the nanny, the parents don(cid:495)t do much in terms of child care, she is hindu), muccho (servant and married to hari. Papoo, imam din (kitchen servant, muslim), hari, moti, ice-candy man (sells ice cream, he sells birds), sher singh (sikh zoo keeper), masseur. This is a very gendered story of partition because it is seen through the eyes of a girl. Town and city ways seem to be a conflict. Pay attention to ice candy man and how he uses religion. There is a sense that communalism is both instrumental and natural. Before partition different religions knew that they were different, but did not care. However, after partition religion was central to identity and different religions did not work together any longer: the original title of the novel was ice candy man. He is the bad man in the novel.
