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Tess, Joel, Harry, Tayla

Pl Plot

Sanjeev eev

• Twinkles husband
• Analytical and practical
• Unadventurous
• Craves order and authority
• Organized and neat
• Regretful of his rushed marriage to Twinkle

Twinkle kle

• Married to Sanjeev
• Childlike
• Excited and delighted by little

things

• Curious
• Laidback and untidy
• Optimistic

Them emes es

• Mar

arriag age e

• Pressure from parents
• Newly married
• Unfamiliarity
• Drifting from the relationship
• Commu

mmunic icatio ion

• Barriers in communication
• Opposite personalities
• Cultura

ral D Difference ces s

• Both born in America with Indian background
• Maintained and lost contact with Indian values

He studied the items on the mantel. It puzzled him that each was in its own way so silly. Clearly they lacked a sense of sacredness. He was further puzzled that Twinkle, who normally displayed good taste, was so charmed. These objects meant something to Twinkle, but they meant nothing to him. They irritated him. “We should call the Realtor. Tell him there’s all this nonsense left behind. Tell him to take it away.” “Oh, Sanj.” Twinkle groaned. “Please. I would feel terrible throwing them away. Obviously they were important to the people who used to live here. It would feel, I don’t know, sacrilegious or something.”

• Example of the differences between Sanjeev and

Twinkle

• Sanjeev unable to relate to Twinkle
• Sanjeev unaccepting of other cultures and

unwilling to learn

• Twinkle is empathetic and sentimental towards
• bjects
• Sanjeev is reclusive but Twinkle is adventurous

and ever changing

With one flick of his hand he could snap the ladder back

• n its spring into the ceiling, and they would have no way
• f getting down unless he were to pull the chain and let
• them. He thought of all the things he could do,
• undisturbed. He could sweep Twinkle’s menagerie into a

garbage bag and get in the car and drive it all to the dump, and tear down the poster of weeping Jesus, and take a hammer to the Virgin Mary while he was at it. Then he would return to the empty house; he could easily clear up the cups and plates in an hour’s time, and pour himself a gin and tonic, and eat a plate of warmed rice and listen to his new Bach CD while reading the liner notes so as to understand it properly. He nudged the ladder slightly, but it was sturdily planted against the

• floor. Budging it would require some effort.

• Reflects Sanjeev’s desire to be alone and

have his own way

• It reveals Sanjeev's growing dislike for

Twinkle’s behaviors

• Sanjeev is close minded and deeply set in

his ways yet he is unwilling to make the effort to change himself for Twinkle

Qu Quotes

"Lon

• ng E

Eye yelashes - like a g girls, Twinkle l liked to t

• tease. Though h

he w was o

• f a

average build, his c cheeks had a p plumpness to t them; this, a along w with t the e eyelashes, detracted, h he f feared, f from w what h he h had hoped w was a a d distinguishing profile. He was o

• f a

average h height a as w well, a and had wished e ever s since he h had stopped growing t that h he were just o

• ne i

inch t taller.” .” "She w was l like that, e excited and delighted b by l little things” s” "They h had met on

• nly f

fou

• ur m

mon

• nths befor
• re.”

.” "With this w wom

• man whom
• m h

he had on

• nly known f

for

• r on
• nly f

fou

• ur m

mon

• nths and w

whom

• m

he he ha had married, t thi his w woman w with h who hom he he n now sha hared hi his life” e” "H "He th thoug ught t with th a a flicker of r regret.” .” "He did not k know i if h he l loved h her er."

Qu Quotes

"Sanjeev did not k know w what l love was" s" "Now h he h had on

• ne, a

a p pretty on

• ne, from
• m a

a s suitably high caste, who

• wou
• uld s

soon

• on have a

a masters d

• degree. What w

was t there n not t to l love." "They h handed their w wraps a and c coats t to S Sanjeev, w who d draped t them c carefully on hangers in th the s spacious us coat c t closet, t, th thoug ugh Twinkle to told th them to to th throw th their th things

• n th

the otto ttomans i in th the s solarium um.” .” "H "He th thoug ught o t of all th the th thing h he c coul uld d do, un undistur turbed" "Most o

• f a

all h he h hated it because he k knew Twinkle loved i it"

Li Links ks

• Marri

arriage age

• ‘A Temporary Matter’
• ‘Sexy