Chapter 6 Flashcards
It was as if their mother has been tending
Them, in their flowerpots
The jewellers joke
An I to make baby’s wedding jewellery this year?
It was cousin anamika who was the
first fruit to be picked
Aruna had a … That seemed to be born of …
Steely determination, a dogged ambitiousness
A desperation
She was simply lovely as
A flower is lovely
Wherever she was there was
Peace, contentment, well being
Moderation, good sense and calm.
An outstanding
Student as well.
She could never bring herself to contradict
Her parents or cause them grief
So grim faced and conscious of
His own superiority to everyone else
She was marrying the one person who was
Totally impervious to anamika’s beauty ad grace and distinction
His mother… With an expression of
Fortitude in the face of calamity
Anamika was beaten…
Regularly by her mother-in-law
First the men,
Then the children, finally the women
(After becoming infertile) Anamika was
Flawed, she was damaged goods. She was no longer perfect
‘How can she be happy
If she is sent home? What will people say?’
