Sense of Ending

The Sense of an Ending: Julian Barnes: Teacher Resource & Worksheet

The style of the writer is ‘Memory Novel ‘or ‘Suspense Thriller’ or ‘Psychological Thriller’ This novel is mainly centered on the characteristics of 21st century writing. Here, writer take some distance than the writer’ Dan Brown’ of ‘Da Vinci Code’. Dan Brown’s journey is outer journey .while, ’Julian Barnes’ take more step ahead on this journey. As a’ journey within self’. Here, Julian Barnes opens one more layer of the life of human-being.
May be reply  of Veronica ’s  phrase ‘Blood Money’  suggests  her(veronica) mother given 500 pounds to Tony .And, she was given that money in replace of Veronica ‘s heresy on Tony. And, another possibility of this phrase means that without doing the work he got money from his  mother-in-law given him money without doing any work. So, that’s another possibility of the phrase used by Veronica in her mail. And, this dialogue from d text is also near to this truth.
‘Blood money?’
I looked at the words and couldn’t make sense of them. She’d
erased my message and its heading, not signed her reply, and just
answered with a phrase. I had to call up my sent email and read it
through again to work out that grammatically her two words could
only be a reply to my asking why her mother had left me five
hundred pounds. But it didn’t make any sense beyond this. No
blood had been spilt. My pride had been hurt, that was true. But
Veronica was hardly suggesting that her mother was offering
money in exchange for the pain her daughter had caused me, was
she? Or was she?
Here, writer also play one puzzle with d reader by putting out this sum: b=s-v x/+a1 or a2+v+a1 X s=b?.
B=baby(Adrian)
S=Sarah
A=Adrian(Father)
V=veronica
Here, Adrian’s equation suggests his relation with Sarah  mother of Veronica .And, the child grown under them. And, may be that  baby is Adrian(second) abnormal.Tony’s latter here becomes tragedy or curse for d baby of Sarah Ford and Adrian.And,Tony& Adrian both of regrets here. Tony regrets for his letter and Adrian regrets for his relation with d woman whose age is double than her. And. Though he can’t able to reach at the real truth. And, this thing writer makes puzzle for the readers.
Actually, Adrian’s diary is willed to Tony  by Sarah Ford. But, Sarah Ford owned it as Adrian had d relation with Sarah .And, that  diary also possessed by Veronica. Because the  second  abusing word for d Veronica .so, Tony knows very well that, that  diary might read by Veronica. and, in this way she becomes possessor of d diary.
It’s also according to the law of possibility as I before say Adrian had relation with Sarah Ford the woman whose quite double aged. And, with  whom ‘Adrian’ had ‘sexual relation’. May be that regret of Adrian made him poor or weak like dead not a physical one but mental  or psychological death. That also comes in ‘The Swamp Dwellers’ by wole Soyinka. So, it’s possible that Adrian is alive but just because of mental trauma he becomes  ‘Abnormal’ just like his child. And, his that guilty lead him towards ‘Suicide’ either Inner or outer.
Veronica has  also some  relation with Adrian as a boy-girl friend. And, her mother had also illegimate relation with  Adrian. so that thing becomes cause of suffering in d community for d Veronica. so, she has to suffer in d community .
Yes, of course the secrets of diary some page missing just like in proof of Jesus Christ ’s video which was shown by u. In d same way here some pages as a dots which is missing from d diary. May be, that thing is ambiguous for d readers.
Whatever the words given to  manipulative , calculative, stubborn, sacrificial, trustworthy and good samarthian used for her. But, behind any element is responsible for it than it’s  ‘Pshychology’ that I think.
‘Unreliable Narrator’ in simple words  narrator whose not reliable. This term first of all coined by ‘Wayne C. Book’ in his work ‘Rhetoric of Fiction’. Here, narrator considerable as a  remain as a ‘Unreliable’ just because of  memory or  nos

Da Vinci code

Worksheet: Screening Movie The Da Vinci Code based on novel by Dan Brown

The movie and the novel on secret sychophegas of Mary Magdalene. The basic idea of religion is always a man. The religion of Muslim ,Hindu, or Christian. One or another form of god is a man not female. Any culture and civilization the idea which is developed the basic idea of creation it is created by female. The female who give to the birth anythingbasic happening of the thing centure idea of female.In vegetation,flower,or human.
The book itself changing patriarchal structure whether s fact come to us story write or wrong doesn’t more important that gender bias religion and society and our day to day life also. And here idea of art is referred here Louvre museum is preserves are and art is always a anti-religious. Art display god and goddess rather dull light.
In this novel female was a driver and male was driven menace female was a very strong character but suddenly the change come th man was driver and female was driven. Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. Films of this genre tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced. 

A thriller provides the sudden rush of emotions, excitement, and exhilaration that drive the narrative, sometimes subtly with peaks and lulls, sometimes at a constant, breakneck pace. It keeps the audience on the "edge of their seats", akin to a sensation of hanging from a cliff, as the plot builds towards a climax. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.
 
A conspiracy theory is an explanatory proposition that accuses two or more persons, a group, or an organization of having caused or covered up, through secret planning and deliberate action, an illegal or harmful event or situation.  

Waiting for Godot

Worksheet: Screening Movie Waiting for Godot

waiting for Godot is  second time in my syllabus movie was so monotonous for us. in this play or movie convey a message of nothingness and i am very hardly agree in the nothingness is something .and the absurd theater was newly introduce by           semual  bucket he shows nothingness of human mind. virginia woolf was uses sream of consciousness in the novel same way semual bucket introduce absurdity of human life and mind and character are constuntuly waiting for godot same way we are waiting for something And tomorrow i will attend all the question.  Here, myth of Sisyphus can be found because Sisyphus is more famous for his punishment in the underworld. Then for what he did in his life. According to Greek myth Sisyphus is condemned to roll a rock - up to the top of a mountain, and the rock roll back down to the bottom every time, Every time he reaches at the top hence, Sisyphus does this thing which has a no meaning as well as purpose and in Waiting for Godot no one come, no one goes too. Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for Godot but Godot never comes. So by this play Samuel Beckett conveys his idea about meaninglessness of life. 

To answer the question of setting here, Beckett used the same painting which was used by Casper David so it can be interpreted that Beckett took inspiration from Caspar David’s Painting and we know that the painting is either “men and women contemplating the moon” or “two men contemplating the moon” so this connection can be observed in the setting of the play. 
   

The Birthday Party

Worksheet: Film Screening - Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party

Birthday Party, In act one was started with the mourning time in play Herold Pinter not uses out side of home but in movie he uses setting out side of as a street. He shows camera effect as a perspective of car driver and with disgusting sound use with intentionally because  of this effect he make his movie powerful than the play. Conversation of Meg and Petey tries to convey a unknown fear what was going to happening starting of the movie don’t show face of car driver so it is also symbol of unknown fear. And also mirror also a symbol when Meg see her face in mirror she looks happy but mirror show always unrealistic image. In movie voice of airplane landing it also shows threatening effect of world war. Herold Pinter writes about his own past and childhood experience.
 Windows and door are also uses for symbol. And Standly constant fearful one after another way                MC Can convinces to Gold berg you have to do it is your duty. And MC Cann was constantly observing so it is also show his fearful mind. In starting of act two MC Cann broken a news paper cutting it shows inner stress and he avoid Standly. And forcefully celebration of Standly’ of Birthday . How a forcefully society make you celebrity so after celebration keep our self ready for downfall and behind on it comedy of menace. Society don’t leave alone as a artist so this event was free to interpret that he may also singed some contract also. Mac Cann and Goldberg ask question to Standly and Standly not give proper answer. So it shows a power and lower position. How a one artist breakdown himself behalf of society. The dialogue of question and answer it also shows child hood experience of Pinter When he passed from British colony  he suffer a lot because of he was Jew.
Pinter the way he write women character it shows that in this play women don’t like see a reality live in only illusion. And Pinter also shows that the play was constantly moved ahead perspective of Standly. In act three as an artist Standly lost his creativity. The pieces of newspaper are also shows broken personality of Standly. So news paper was use as a symbol. The laughing of Lulu is also a sinister laughing we can compare with witch laugh in the forest. Close room and darker setting are shoes the room prison and Standly was a prisoner. The game of Blindman’s bluff it is also very symbolic. This symbol referred theme of blindness  and man groping in the darkness search for identity and search for Existential human predicament. And another was a plight of an artist. and toy drum was a symbol of a broken personality of Standly. And meg say it is still playing so after meet society as a artist he dose not make any creative art.  

One Night @The call center

Chetan Bhagat's 'one night @ the call center': Worksheet for Literary Analysis

One night @  the call center


Chetan Bhagat’s portrayal of characterization are Vroom, Shyam, Priyanka, Esha, Military uncle, and Radhika are his characters so he was compare himself with Shyam and he was more convincible character as point of view of Chetan Bhagat.
Vroom: Anti-American Point of view and powerful character than the narrator.
Military uncle: Portrayal of character of old man. He does not accept a modern life. His daughter in law does a job and goes for late night party and him not compromise with his daughter in law. So military uncle leave his home and compromise him but daughter in law not compromise.
Esha:     she want to be a model against his parents she leave her home and work in call center because his dream the corporate people are uses her body also.so in modern time girls are for their aim they serve money and body also.
Radhika: Radhika married lady she was not unhappy on her in lows home. And in movie shows she takes medicine of depression. And she say I don’t want to see my mother in-laws face again. And she says I want to take divorce from Anuj.
 Priyanka: Priyanka mother force to her that she was have to marriage with NRI Ganesh it was real happiness for her mother. Priyanka say I was not compromise with myself because happiness of my mother.
Shyam: youth of India with low self-esteem and with have not a confidence as a agent of call center their voice was recorded so they have to talk always in low tone when a white men know the voice was an Indian agent they miss behave.
Chetan Bhagat was biographer of young India and zeitgeist and fallacy also.
(1)Historical Fallacy: means there is no any deep philosophy but the things are shown much clear
(2)Personal Fallacy : means Chetan Bhagat was victim of personal Fallacy and he doesn’t uses artistic and ornamental language. The things which are much clear and easy and it shows reality it doesn’t great literature.
The characterization of pie it shows conditioning of mind that when we don’t understand anything or any fearful things so we time and again go to the umbrella term of god. But we can’t escape it because it is our conditioning of mind right from childhood.
Hokey spiritualism not deep or not spiritual. Only sallow thing are written. The way Chetan Bhagat was write a novel on life of call center agent versimitude. In his novel he does not uses high sounding word. Shyam was narrator of the novel and he represents the Chetan Bhagat himself.
The idea of bossism
In India there is hierarchy in Europe country there is no hierarchy. We Indian are idea of boss we connect with respect and worker always bow down with their knees. But in Europe there is a difference. They question a lot because there is not idea. “name of respect “they doubt a lot and question a lot when our Indian children or student are question so parent or teacher are say  the child or student was misbehave with us. Whenever in any company the worker came with new idea and boss never accept their idea. So the boss may be bondage for young India. Bakshi kind of boss was representing the bossism of India high spending demographic and in India everywhere privatization. And now the things are changing not nessasory to die for the company keep company and jump  another and loyalty who happy when we are loyal monarchy was benefited now not monarchy so in democracy awards and rewards are given to the solger the name of parmvirchakra and symbols of paliya also. So we think on it in our loyalty whose interests are serving.
One Night @ the Call Centre
Included in the category of self-helped book and Sashi say Boswell is new India. And self-helped book’s characteristic is give question “How” we have to find out from own our self. Genre non fictional writing and most of the genre but in modern time the modern writer write inspirational writing and interesting also. The self-helped book also write creative way mode of story.
The self-helped book’s main intension is book instruct the personal problem solved Samuel Smile 1859 he also wrote self-helped book and the literature affect a lot in society and moved from self-improvement. It is a cultural phenomenon and self –helped book. Shiv Khera and Sundip Maheshwari
Are come into the self-helped category.
Dale Carnegie ;how to win friends influence people it shows the codes and conduct of society it gives us to positive thinking. Bhagavad Gita and Bible are self-helped book and also codes and conduct. Positive thinking – nurture value system good for the corporate against funning corporate company benefit serve. Pop culture working same culture and environment. Pop culture was belonging to major class of the society.
Shyam self-improvement beard fear friend help each other it is a Horizontal Movement from cultural dimension.
Globalization
Desire to purchase because of larger market more invention is come into the market. For example Keshubhai Patel’s daughter was uses a Japanese Camera. So it became a craze to purchase a new thing. Unspoken force to do work for unending desire. For the stressful behavior the units start breaking. And home becomes a battle field.
Thomas Friedman’s ‘The World Is Flat’
Chapter-2
The ten forces that flaunted the world
Flatter 1# 11\9\89 wall fall berlin. The new age of creativity when the wall came fallen down windows open.
Knowledge industry
Shine India- One Night @ Call Center(People live in City)
                        In shining India people are still unhappy and visimilitude and Zategaste
Dark India- (People live in rural area)
Literature and Globalization
The novel is transnational because this novel it shows us the corporate world. Transnational means when company change the country so the rule also change so it is Transnational.
Organization
   Free from rules
When country change rules also change
Rules of country not catch them
Menippean satire
Menippean is a Greek satirist, stereo comic genre contemporary intuitions, mental attitude, bossism, under the name of respective authority, the grate chamcha, Indira Gandhi and Khushvant Sinh.
   

To The Lighthouse

1. Question and Answer

Worksheet: Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse

1. How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only be said in the way she has said? (Key: The 'How' of the narrative technique is to be discussed along with features of Stream of Consciousness technique which helps Woolf to put in effective manner what she experienced in abstractions. 100 words)
2. Do you agree: "The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay"? (Key: Take some clues from the painting of Mrs Ramsay drawn by Lily Briscoe and the article by Andre Viola. Can we read Mrs. R in context of the idea of Ideal Indian Woman - Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri; Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha; Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi; Satkarma yukta, Kuladharma pathni. 100 words)
3. Considering symbolically, does the Lighthouse stand for Mrs. Ramsay or the narrator (Virginia Woolf herself who is categorically represented by Lily)? (Key: Take help from the presentation on Symbolism to connect Mrs. Caroline Ramsay with Lighthouse. Secondly, the narrator / author cannot fully disappear from the novel and thus the stoicism of Lily to paint and thus prove that she can paint, is symbolically presented in stoicism of Lighthouse. Read lighthouse symbol from presentation slide with this insight to connect lighthouse with the narrator. Give your concluding remarks in 100 words)
4. In the article by Joseph Blotner, two myths are patterned together. Name the myths? How they are zeroed down to the symbols of 'Window' and 'Lighthouse'? How does the male phallic symbol represent feminine Mrs. Ramsay? (100 words)
5. What do you understand by the German term 'Künstlerroman'? How can you justify that 'To The Lighthouse' is 'Künstlerroman' novel? (100 words) (Key: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/325047/Kunstlerroman)
6. "... the wages of obedience is death, and the daughter that reproduces mothering to perfection, including child-bearing, already has on her cheeks the pallor of death. One reminded here of various texts by Lucy Irigaray, in which she attacks mothers for being, however unwillingly, accomplices in the patriarchal system of oppression." (Viola). In light of this remark, explain briefly Lily's dilemma in 'To The Lighthouse'. (100 words)
7. You have compared the 'beginning' and the 'ending' of the novel and the film adaptation of the novel directed by Colin Gregg (you can see it again in the embedded video below this). Do you think that the novel is more poignant than the movie? If yes, do you ascribe the power of appeal to words than to the screen?
8. How do you interpret the last line of the novel (It was done; it was finished.Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.) with reference to the ending of the film (After the final stroke on the canvass with finishing touch, Lily walks inside the house. As she goes ante-chamber, the light and dark shade makes his face play hide-and-seek. She climbs stairs, puts her brush aside, walks through the dark and light to enter her room. Gently closes the door - speaks: "Closed doors, open windows" - lies on the bed and with some sort of satisfaction utters: "Dearest Briscoe, you are a fool".) (100 words)

Ans-2
Yes I agree with your point. The way Virginia Woolf create a character sketch of Mrs.Ramsay it shows two sides of coins good side and bad side also. When we think point of view of author it shows character of Mrs.Ramsay a very traditional wife. The way one traditional women think about her family and her social reputation. As a part of her social reputation the way she invites guest for vacation and her idea about match making it shows her conscious attention towards social reputation so it shows a good side of Mrs.Ramsay.
 When we see about mythical references of about wife and mother. Rhea as a mother and Demeter as a wife in this myth mother expectation of her daughter because the mother duty towards her family so much so she expects from her daughter she also fulfills duty of her family. For example Mrs.Ramsay daughter died very young age at a time of child birth time. So it is a proves tribute and criticism towards Mrs.Ramsay.

 Ans-3
In symbolism, I like to say that light house shows a aim of the novel to reached the light house it is a prime concern of the novel. The title of the novel “To the Lighthouse” it shows importance of light house.  And second thing Virginia Woolf also in dilemma that Mrs. Ramsay character was traditional women and Lily’s character was modern women author also in dilemma what kind of life style she live.
And i like to go a side of Mrs. Ramsay and light house symbolically represented Mrs. Ramsay because light house it is symbol of there is no darkness and it is stand for highest paint of earth so it representMrs.Ramsay.so I would like to write Mrs.Ramsay during her life and after her death each and every person remember her a lot and see all the things from perspective of Mrs.Ramsay.
     
Ans-5
“To The Lighthouse” written by Virginia Woolf. In the novel main female figure character of Mrs.Ramsay she loves so much her son James. And second thing Kunstleroman novel means bildungsroman when author shows child age to the young age shows progress of character when it is a Kunstleroman.
And in this novel Virginia Woolf shows the journey of James child hood to young age and constantly craving reached “To the Lighthouse”. And not only physically grownup shows Virginia Woolf but shows also mental grown up and psychologically mature mind at the end of the novel.

Ans-6
In the novel “to the light house “Mrs.Ramsay as a protagonist of the novel as female finger. And Virginia Woolf tries to convey the message of as a traditional woman and as a mother and a wife she was a perfect female finger. and she tries to conveys she was best wife or mother and she also say to her daughter you have to must be follow me the way I live a life you must be copied   my thing.
The Greek   god and goddesses are primordial images are must be written in the novel and may be consciously or unconsciously Virginia Woolf followed the idea of primordial goddess  as a female figure mother ,wife ,daughter and also Rhea, Demeter,Persephone. constructed by those mythical ideal womanhood Mrs.Ramsay. 
Mother at a some point know very well if my daughter not reproduce her child so there is not good thing for her.
                                “Angel in the house”
It follow the idea of one women character always ready to sacrifices a one female figure as a mother , daughter , and wife. 
  

Ans-7
The novel of Virginia Woolf was more effective than than the movie because in the novel discussion with each and every dialogue and Virginia Woolf itself follow the interior monologue each and every person think in his own mind and interior monologue creates intellectual image of Virginia Woolf. Doyall it self think that the novel is more effective than the movie the director only shows the dialogue of the character but in the novel there is no interior events its only shows external events happen and Virginia Woolf write interior monologue        
So the doyall thinking was right because novel was more powerful than the movie.

Ans-8
We can say that the comparison to the movie and the novel is good to see what difference between each other. Movie  was modern version of lighting decoration and character are improve a lot as compare the novel the movie was directed by caneth so he was also understood a well literary novel .
As compared with the last line of the novel “I have find my vision “in the novel extreme wish of James to reached to the lighthouse and the banging of the novel Lilly Briscoe started a painting of Mrs. Ramsay and at the end of the novel Lilly final touch to the painting “I have had my vision” So it shows psychologically author itself reached her vision.
Lilly Briscoe her own self represented the character of Virginia Woolf