The City By The Sea Chapter 2 Active Reading Journal
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After reading the prologue, the reader can infer what the plot of the book will be about. A college student and two tailors arrive at Dina Dalal’s home in Mumbai. The college student looking for a place to stay and two tailors looking for a job. This gives me an idea of what to expect in the chapters to come.
Setting A Fine Balance takes place in India in the mid 1970’s. The city is unnamed and is referred to, “The City By The Sea”, which we now know as Mumbai. In the 1970’s about six million people lived in the city making it densely populated.
To give the reader background knowledge, the first chapter of the book uses flashback as a literary device. The first chapter is an in-depth description of Dina’s childhood. This gives the reader background knowledge about why the characters act they way they do. This is an important chapter in developing the plot and setting.…show more content… Mistry perceives Nusswan as being a villain and a selfish charachter throughout the novel. Nusswan puts his interests first, and Dina’s interests second. Nusswan has to take on the role of ‘father’ to Dina when their father passed suddenly. Nusswan abuses Dina when he, “lashes the ruler across her calves and arms, he drove her to the bathroom, where he began tearing off her clothes”(Mistry, 25). Nusswan clearly abuses his sister Dina. His motives are not to provide and take care of Dina, he wants to make himself feel better.
Will Nusswan mature as the novel goes on?
Is he obsessed with his new power?
Why did Dina not want to get involved in the