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    Ismat Chughtai

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    1) The document discusses themes of oppression, domestic help, and premarital relationships in India. 2) It focuses on the relationship between a young widow named Gainda and the teenage narrator who works for Gainda's upper class family. 3) As the narrator reaches puberty, she develops feelings of attraction towards Gainda but lacks understanding due to lack of sex education. Her confusion stems from societal taboos around such topics.

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    Ismat Chughtai

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    1) The document discusses themes of oppression, domestic help, and premarital relationships in India. 2) It focuses on the relationship between a young widow named Gainda and the teenage narrator who works for Gainda's upper class family. 3) As the narrator reaches puberty, she develops feelings of attraction towards Gainda but lacks understanding due to lack of sex education. Her confusion stems from societal taboos around such topics.

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    1) The document discusses themes of oppression, domestic help, and premarital relationships in India. 2) It focuses on the relationship between a young widow named Gainda and the teenage narrator who works for Gainda's upper class family. 3) As the narrator reaches puberty, she develops feelings of attraction towards Gainda but lacks understanding due to lack of sex education. Her confusion stems from societal taboos around such topics.

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    164 views14 pages

    Ismat Chughtai

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    1) The document discusses themes of oppression, domestic help, and premarital relationships in India. 2) It focuses on the relationship between a young widow named Gainda and the teenage narrator who works for Gainda's upper class family. 3) As the narrator reaches puberty, she develops feelings of attraction towards Gainda but lacks understanding due to lack of sex education. Her confusion stems from societal taboos around such topics.

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    gynocentric : means there is an extreme fanode point of view

    kyriarchy : social system that represents any kind of domination. embedded


    societal conditioning : how society shaped you

    themes: caste oppression, widow marriage premarital pregnancy, homosexuality

    domestic help, widow , young, works for upper class , falls for son
    narration in 3rd person kind off not really as she is in action

    starts with proclamation

    shy , know the mechanics of marriage

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    first physical interaction , touches gainda not narrator

    show intimacy present atleast from bhai

    there comfort in intimacy

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    shows how for girls marriage was an achievement

    mocked as she had married

    why? as she is
    not married,
    you're not
    supposed to
    want these
    things aswomen
    are at a
    nullerable doesn't know the true reason why
    porition so
    showing maturity
    can put a target
    on her. Male
    dominance

    feels neglected

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    insight to her thoughts , shows transition to pubertylenage

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    Their relationship
    is mutual. reached
    a space where
    they understand
    and have
    committed but at
    the same time
    no direct education there is repulsion
    even on important from gainda
    issues like this because she was
    even though this is widow
    their ultimate
    achievement. even
    in a wealthy
    household like
    this. the idea is
    taboo. self learnt

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    gainda was more feminine and graceful which made the narrator awkward

    women as
    her friend
    prostitute and enemy,
    juxtaposition

    both are angry that gainda


    got beaten
    taking out their
    anger on different
    ppl they can take
    their anger out
    on. also, the
    affection for
    gainda is same
    from both. "both"

    inferiority, neglection to gainda

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    this is normal for someone that has reached puberty but narrator doesnt know this. neglection adds
    fuel to the fire

    alot of
    natural way
    of telling the
    story. a
    greatest trait
    of chugtai

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    kind of tree

    her view. she was shocked that she was slapped. gainda's comfort with bhaiya to even slap him. told in such a way that
    narrators ignorance comes out but not ours

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    frustation of
    observing things but
    not understanding
    them

    her source is gainda


    even though she also
    is just 13 years old

    trying to imitate gainda with bhaiya. shows how much she wanted to be like her. lack of ambition,
    touch so trying to take it from where she can get it. desperate

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    trying to replaying the scene. she is excited but nothing is happening in her life of such
    sort

    even though she


    says that mewaram
    is a pig, she still
    wants to experience
    that touch.

    Things regarding
    health were also
    not discussed as
    the society had
    kept them as
    taboo

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    brother sent
    away to keep him
    away from
    gainda. not non
    consensual

    rebelled against the family

    clueless.
    attitude of the
    household
    toeard gainda
    has changed

    she has grown. gained a bit of understanding and put 2


    together

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    she is not bothered by the relationship but only her affection for gainda; not the societal taboo. this is the kind
    of love she has for gainda.

    she fears that


    even the
    narrator will
    be disgusted
    by her like the
    rest of the
    family

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    pointing out to
    the lack of sex
    education

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    gainda spirits were destroyed. she needed the narrator to get it back. their relationship in which she took pride in
    being the one with more knowledge about such subjects was coming back as she took pride in knowing certain
    things

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