epiphany
I feel that we cannot brush over a chapter entitled “An Epiphany”…. When Piya talks about dolphins, I find that all I want to do is listen to her talk about dolphins. This short chapter made me love Piya even
oh No
I don’t know if y’all have seen any promotion for Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage around the World, but boy does that look like some historical revisionism. The first thing you find when you google it are arguments on
trying to make sense of the timeline of this book
@ all of Kanai’s chapters
Piya and language
I keep finding ways that Piya is fixated on words or language. I’m not entirely sure what to think about it yet, but does anyone have any thoughts? Here’s a quote I find to be interesting: “How do you lose
Marriage in The Hungry Tide
As I’ve been reading further into The Hungry Tide, I’ve started to notice a recurring theme surrounding marriage. All three marriages we have seen so far in the narrative (Piya’s parents, Fokir and Moyna, and Nilima and Nirmal) have been
Asian Americans in Marketing
I always think it’s interesting when something that I learn in a class overlaps or connects to what I’m learning in another class. Yesterday in my marketing class, we talked about Asian American consumers, so I thought I would tell
In case y’all were wondering what the towel looked like and was called XD
The towel in Bengali is called gamcha.
Joey!!!! <3
Before we leave Dogeaters entirely, I had some thoughts on Joey. We talked on Friday about how he could be the moral center of the novel and why we adore him so much. From the first time we meet Joey
Zareen’s Reading Questions for November 4th-Amitav Ghosh, pp. 3-69
1) Throughout the first part of the novel, mangroves are characterized as a “universe unto itself, utterly unlike other woodlands or jungles. There are no towering, vine-looped trees, no ferns, no wildflowers, no chattering monkeys or cockatoos. Mangrove leaves are