Review of Presents From my Aunts in Pakistan

593 Words2 Pages

Review of Presents From my Aunts in Pakistan

The subject of the poem "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is that,

a girl who was born in Pakistan and who has been growing up in England

in an English way of life. One day when she was aware that she is

going to get some gifts from her beloved aunts living in Pakistan she

expected to get some ordinary western style of clothes I.e. denim and

corduroy, but unfortunately she received some Pakistani styled clothes

I.e. salwar kameez, Indian jewellery and sarees. So, this poem totally

describes how she reacted and felt towards the incident happened.

The purpose of the poem "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is that

the girl who has been described in the poem has been born in Pakistan

and brought up in England in the English way of life and in parallel

to their style of living. And when she received some gifts from

Pakistan in Pakistani style she feels that these things are so far to

be worn in England because it's so far from the English's style of

living in comparison with the Pakistani's style of living. And when

she tried to wear that on in her English styled bedroom she felt like

as though there has been an alien in her room. So, the purpose is that

how she feels different and as an alien from the gifts received.

The emotions of this poem are feeling alienation, different, feeling

embarrassment, disappointment and love and happiness. The craft of

this poem are as follows Line number eighteen says "I could never be

lovely as those clothes". This line prove how much she likes the

clothes sent from her aunts in Pakistan and she also proves the

happiness she felt from sending her beautiful clothes from her aunts

in Pakistan although she was not in the position to wear them on. In

line number twenty "I longed for denim and corduroy". From these two

lines I have mentioned, I can prove that she liked the gifts sent from

her aunts in Pakistan but she not in a country where it would be

Show More
Related

  • Analysis Of Agnes Dewitt 's ' The Miracles At Little No Horse '

    1672 Words  | 4 Pages

    place for her to determine that she was in fact a border dweller. This awakening is crucial to her

    Read More

  • Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

    700 Words  | 2 Pages

    becomes aware of the difficulty of being a lady, particularly when under dressed; and she

    Read More

  • Celie's Life and Hard Times.

    1010 Words  | 3 Pages

    marriage. She was to do just as he said, without so much as uttering a

    Read More

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Women's Rights Movement

    535 Words  | 2 Pages

    was that he wished she had been a boy. Her high hope of working with her husband

    Read More

  • Repression In Dracula

    763 Words  | 2 Pages

    not have superiority over men, and should be domestic or virginal both in her thinking and

    Read More

  • Al Gore: Presidential Candidate

    1397 Words  | 3 Pages

    School, working to be a lawyer. Later on as her husband was entering the political

    Read More

  • I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

    1284 Words  | 3 Pages

    The autobiography I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai begins with the scene of young pakistani education and women’s rights activist Malala being shot in the head. Her school bus had been stopped by the Taliban who, after asking which of the girls was Malala, put a bullet into her head. Malala ends the powerful prologue with the words “Who is Malala? I am Malala and this is my story” (9). Malala then rewinds to the story of her birth and how in Pakistan, no one congratulated her parents when she was born because she was a girl. Pakistani culture pushes for the birth of a boy as an islamic majority country. However, her father saw the potential in his daughter as a great leaser and named her after one of the great female leaders in Pakistan- Malalai of Maiwand who inspired the Afghan people, who were losing hope, to spur the army to victory against the British/Indian forces. Malala describes life in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. She outlines the Indian- Pakistan revolution and the shift of the Pashtun people into the Swat Valley. Malala’s father grew up in Shahpur but struggled to get his education in the town where he met Malala’s mother. They married and his dream of building a school, Khushal Public School, became reality when they moved into Mingora.

    Read More

  • Summary Of The Novel 'Divergent' By Veronica Roth

    355 Words  | 1 Pages

    an example of one of the decisions she makes throughout the book. The act of doing the correct

    Read More

  • An analysis of three short stories written by Kate Chopin, 1914.

    2325 Words  | 5 Pages

    lived in the time of the American civil war and her mother was a slave

    Read More

  • Research Paper On Sarah Mutch

    499 Words  | 1 Pages

    Sarah was born in Vancouver, Canada on 21st December 1984. Besides that, there is not much information as she wants to keep his early life and education background hidden. Information on her mother and father is also not known. Her nationality is Canadian and ethnicity is unknown. Sarah’s body is not god gifted enhanced her body by the means of plastic surgery.

    Read More

  • Krik Krak: Night Women

    388 Words  | 1 Pages

    much women sacrificed certain things in order to obtain a stable situation in a household. She

    Read More

  • The Power of Malala Yousafzai

    628 Words  | 2 Pages

    she is only 16-year-old from an Islamic country leading the first vital step towards raising the status of women in the Arab region is undoubtedly laudable. Indeed, she deserves to be called an ideal person of all girls in the world, who fight against any obstacles that abuse women’s individual rights. She is raising confidence to all girls and urging them to speak out what they want to be and ask for what they should have

    Read More

  • Identity And Culture In The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri

    1075 Words  | 3 Pages

    When she is about to give birth to her first child, her Indian ethnicity reminds her of the conventional social customs of the Indian Bengali Culture. The solitary atmosphere in the hospital makes her recapture the domestic life of Calcutta. She is the only Indian in the hospital with three other American ones in the adjoining room. She is "terrified to raise a child in a country where she is related to no one, where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and spare." After giving birth, she says to Ashoke, her husband, "I am saying I don't want to raise Gogol alone in this country. It's not right. I want to go back." Ashima feels lonely and terribly alone. She feels lost in a crowd, without an identity in between two opposite cultures. She teaches her children the culture of her own country, about the relations with the relatives, about how they eat with their hands in India, but in the long run she knows deep inside that she cannot force them to do it or practice it. Ashima is often reminded of the words her family pronounced, "not to eat beef or wear skirts or cut off her hair or forget her family", but the second generation does not abide to these rules and lives an American way of life. Ashima, like many first

    Read More

  • Malala Yousafzai Research Paper

    376 Words  | 1 Pages

    What is a role model to you? I think a role model is a person that is looked up to by many others. My role model is Malala Yousafzai, and her courageous actions are the reason why she changed the world. She is a child activist, and she stood up for women’s education.

    Read More

More about Review of Presents From my Aunts in Pakistan

Open Document