Dusk over Atlantic Wharf. Summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf by Susmita Bhattacharya: The short story is about Anuj and Lata, you follow Lata in the story, whom has just moved from India to Britain. She has difficulty adjusting to her new environment and her husband Anuj. They are newlyweds and just getting to know each other. Lata doesn’t love Anuj, but is learning to do so. Lata had a very different life in India; she has never cooked and cleaned, they had people to do that back in India
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Written assignment 2: Essay - Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf Arranged marriages are traditional in the Indian society and continue to account for the greater part of marriages in India. In the western world are arranged marriages not so widespread, and we do not see it so often. In the short story, ‘’Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf’’, by Susmita Bhattacharya, we hear about an Indian girl, Lata, who is in an arranged marriage. So the question is, can there really be love in an arranged marriage? The story
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Dusk over Atlantic Wharf 1. Write a summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf “Dusk over Atlantic Wharf” is about Lata, who is a young woman from India. She is forced into an arranged marriage with Anuj. They live in Cardiff, Wales in England. Anuj has lived there for six years, and Lata for four month. Lata misses her home in India, and she does not feel like home in Cardiff. Anuj and Lata are trying to make their marriage work. One night, they go to the movie, because Lata is bored, and they go to
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1. Write a summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf: The text Dusk over Atlantic Wharf is about an Indian woman, Lata who gets married off by her father, to a man who lives in wales in England. His name is Anuj and Lata does not know him well. Everything is new for her, in a new town where she does not know anybody. She got married to him because her father thought that she would get a better life in wales. She really misses her life in India, where she had her family and friends. It’s hard for her to
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Delprøve B Dusk over Atlantic Wharf 1. A summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf The short story, written by Susmita Bhattacharya , is about a young woman called Lata. She has been raised in India where she probably has lived all her life. She is in an arranged marriage with Anuj, who also has grown up in India. They live together in Wales, in a house in Cardiff. Anuj have lived there for six years, and he thought he was as British as the white people, but Lata has only lived there for 4 months. In
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marriages are traditional in the Indian society and continue to account for the greater part of marriages in India.(???) In the western world, arranged marriages are not so widespread, and we do not see it so often. In the short story, ‘’Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf’’, by Susmita Bhattacharya, we hear about the Indian girl, Lata, who is in an arranged marriage. So the question is, can there really be love in an arranged marriage? The main character in this story is Lata. She is originally from
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Dusk over Atlantic Wharf Characterization Lata Lata is a young woman, who had just moved to Wales with her new husband. She is young, probably in her early twenties, which is the age of when Indian women marry when so is arranged. Lata is a young and cheerful woman, who is missing her own culture. She has only been living in Cardiff for 2 months and she is already tired of where she is living. The weather doesn’t suit her while she is used to living under bright clouds and the burning sun. She
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Dusk over Atlantic Wharf Nowadays a lot of media talks about integration and how immigrants handles to change from one culture to another. The reasons for emigration can be many things. For an example Afghanistan. Afghanistan is plagued by war. A lot of people from Afghanistan tries to emigrate from Afghanistan to the western countries, so they might get a better life. But not all emigrating people emigrates because of war. Some people does it because of love and marriage. Other people does it
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Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf The main theme of the story is culture adjustment, since in the story Lata, the main character, can’t get adjusted to the new culture in Wales, she only wants to do things that are familiar to her, and when she does get out, she gets overwhelmed by it, the title could also refer to this cause when she goes to Atlantic Wharf she truly realises how different the two cultures are, and longs after her home. Other themes of the story could be; arranged marriage and relationship
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Summary: “Dusk over Atlantic Wharf”, written by Susmita Bhattacharya, is about a young woman from India called Lata, and here husband, by arranged marriage, Anuj. They are both born in India, but now they live in a house in Cardiff, Wales in England. Anuj has lived there for six years, and Lata for one year and five months. Lata is not felling familiar in her new town, she misses her home in India, and she and Anuj are trying to make their marriage work. The story begins when Lata finds the day
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