week 17 analysis

This week I will be doing a literary analysis of Mahasweta Devi story "GiriblaIa". The literary devices that devi use in her story are Characterization, Dialogue, setting and changes between first to third person. She use Characterization when she describes the the girls that are being married off and how young they usually are when this happens. She also shows dialogue through out the story specifically when characters are talking to one another, Giri and her mother I believe. The setting takes place some where in India in the late 1900's. The story changes from a third person narrater when it is talking about the over all story and details then changes to first person when the character is actually talking. The theme I see in this story id a big one which is women do not have rights in India. This plays out very well in the story because they make it quiet obvious that this is the way there society is ruled and factions. This metaphor works perfectly to address the issue of inequality in India as well as the rest of the world. It also show how bad places that are not America can be when women do not have any rights. I choose this reading because this displays the history India and many other places around the world that are still like this. where privileged patriarchal power structure in a society constantly  subordinates, subjugates, and oppress women’s lives to years of injustice and gendered brutality and impoverishment. This was once apart of almost all societies in the world at one point in time, which is now apart of only a few countries now. I can tell the elements that I choose influenced and informs the authors work because she herself is an Indian women who has probably seen this first hand and wants to inform other of what is truly happening.