DistanceLearning Practice I: Questions

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Distance-Learning Practice I Questions

• Earth, Gainda and Honour
• This file is not to provide information, but to
  stimulate you to think more actively.

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General Questions

• What are the common themes among the three texts?
  
• Childrens experience (initiation), class
  differences, sex and marriage, the year 1947,
  radicalization of ones belief (Shamshad and the
  men in Earth).
• What do you feel about learning from lecture
  videos? Can you focus and what are the
  ways/strategies you take to focus your attention
  and think actively?
• What do you feel about
• the gaps in the videos (when you can not hear
  what the students said)?
• What do you feel about watching your school
  sisters and brothers?

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Earth Key Words

• Race and Cultural Differences
• main symbols
• Filmic techniques (contrast and main colors)
• The roles of children and women.

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Characters across the Racial Divide

• Character Names
• Dil Navaz -- the Ice Candy Man,
• Shanta -- the Ayah (played by Nandita Das)  
• Hassan -- the Masseur,
• the Sethna family -- Bunty, Lenny
• Singh the Sikh.
• Compare the characters of Hassen and Dil Navaz.
• Discuss Dil Navazs changes in the film. Why do
  think the original novel is subtitled The Ice
  Candy Man?
• What do you think about the betrayal at the end
  of the film?

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The Roles of Women and Children

• The child bride (untouchable) saved by marrying a
  Christian dwarf
• The Muslim refugee child (clip 14)
• Shenta
• Lenny unhappy birthday breaking plate and doll,
  nightmare

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The Role of British Empire

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Independence Ironies

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Partition Violence

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Partition an Interpretation

• Is it correct?

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Race Relations the Role of Sikh

• The differences between Hassen and Dil Navaz

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Refugee Muslim Child wanting to play marble, not
knowing what a cake is
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Climax what do they each see and feel?

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Gainda Key Words Questions

• the brides game Dulhan-Dulhan
• the narrator and Mewa, Gainda and Bhaiyya
• the contrast between the narrators life, the
  birth experience of Bahu, and that of Gainda
• Ending the narrators growth and realization.
• Q Experience of Growth Do you have experience
  of envying your older siblings or friends who are
  more physically matureand or wanting to win the
  attention of the other sex?

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Honor a victim of Purdah system

• symbol bathroom
• the internalization of the purdah/honour system
  in Shamshad Her views
• of her cousin Aziz
• of the family deaths of Azizs attempt to
  help
• of Kallo Bai and Azizs death
• of having to work first as an ayah, and then a
  house-keeper.