Reef by Romesh Gunesekera is a Bildungsroman set in the background of the Sri Lankan political coup in the year 1971. This first person narration marks the coming of age of a young protagonist named Triton. Who at the age of eleven is sent to Mr. Salgado’s household to work as a servant. “I was trapped inside what I could see, what I could hear, what I could walk to without straying from my undefined boundaries,” (Gunesekera 53). Conformed to his surroundings Triton has limited knowledge and understanding
The novel Reef by Romesh Gunesekera is about a lad named Triton. The novel marks his coming of age. As the novel progress young Triton grows from a boy to a man.” Triton at the age of eleven” and “I told him I had a business nearby a restaurant”(Gunesekera1) ,this show that he had grown up from a lad to man. Triton experiences a number of events that his coming of age. In my essay I will explore these events of an insider and outsider. In my first paragraph I will be talking about the relationship
This essay is about a novel titled Reef, authored by Romesh Gunesekera, this novel is but one of many of his works, he also authored ‘Monkfish Moon, The Sandglass, The match and many others. The novel has won him several awards. The title of the novel holds a meaning in itself, the word reef is defined as ‘a ridge of jagged rock or coral just above or below the surface of the sea’ (Oxford 2005). The novel entails of an eleven year old named Triton, he burned the roof of a heart in his school and
the warm sunlight. Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekera is a novel comprising of short stories, set in post-war Sri Lanka, 2011. These stories work as building blocks to create the protagonist, Vasantha’s character. The short stories “Roadkill” and “Ramparts” effectively use cigarettes
The Storm: An Inner Reflection Memories are all we have sometimes, but what if memories bring out unwelcome feelings? In Romesh Gunesekera's short story "Ranvali," a young lady goes back to her father's old holiday bungalow and begins to discover new feelings toward her beloved Communist father. The story is set in an idyllic bungalow in Ranvali, by the coast of India. Theorists such as Roland Barthes would argue that setting in modern narratives "no longer need meaning: they simply are: that
It was one evening, while I was reading the novel Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatjee that my ideas for a doctoral project took shape. Before reading the novel, I had heard from my Professor who taught me Post colonial studies (a course for which the novel had been prescribed) that Ondaatjee’s only novel about Sri Lanka has often been subjected to heavy criticism because of the fact that it fails to portray the island’s civil war in a credible manner. Literary scholars have subjected Anil’s Ghost