AnalyseTask: Analyse the language Bali Rai uses to describe Manny and his father (page 18/19)
Father“Not, bloody goreh” (line 26)
->he is a racist
“We are Punjabis and proud of it (…)” (line 33-37)
->father is not interested in Manny’s wishes or his opinion; he is dominant
Vocabulary:
“proud” (line 34),
“duty” (line 10),
“pride” (line 11),
“honour” (line 11)
“Hangover” (line 16),
“real bender” (line 14)
->alcoholic
“Brothers, cousin it’s all the same to us.” (line 25)
->he thinks all the Punjabi men are the same
“picking his ear with a forefinger” (line 19)
-> Manny thinks his father is disgusting
->not interested in his son, conservative/ pride, bad manners, alcoholic
Manny“Yes Daddy-ji” (line 13)
->indicate respect
“I was extra polite to him” (line 13)
->seems to be polite but does not mean it
->Manny is represented as a good son who tries to avoid to argue his father Analyse- Homework 1Task: Analyse the language Bali Rai uses to describe Manny and his father (page 18/19)
The text passage is from the book “(Un) arrange marriage” was written by Bali Rai. The passage is a typical example of a young rebel who wants to break free.
At first the language of the father. It’s seems that he has the main talking part in the text. He tells Manny that he thinks that he does not like the white people. For example line 26 shows that he says thinks like a racist “Not bloody goreh.”
Next is that the father shows that he is not interested in his son’s wishes and opinion “We are Punjabis and proud of it […]” (line 33-37). It has aswell the effect that the main character traits of the father are clear. He seems to be a dominate person who knows exactly were his parte in the family is.
The vocabularies: proud (line 34), duty (line 10), pride (line 11) and honour (line 11) tells the reader how important the Punjabi tradition is for the father. Also it shows (in the context with the hole book) who important it is for the father, that the neighbours and the people around him have a good picture of him and his family.
But just in the next sentences you get to know, that the father is more like an actor. He is playing the food Punjabi men in front of his neighbours but the truth is that he drinks a lot of alcohol (line 16/14) “real bender” and “hangover”. Normally drinking alcohol is against the Punjabi religion.
The father thinks that the Punjabis are the best. He thinks that they are a union “Brothers, cousins it’s all the same to us” (line 25).
Finally Manny describes his father doing disgusting things like “picking his ear with a forefinger” (line 19).
Overall I would say that the father is a conservative, proud Punjabi man who likes to keep the Punjabi traditions. But he is by drinking alcohol and his bad manners not the best idol for his children. HE is also not interested in his son.
Bali Rai uses different stylistic devices for describing Manny.
Firstly Manny tries to indicate respect by calling his father –ji “Yes Daddy-ji” (line 13).
Secondly and also finally he tries to be ´extra polite´ to his father (line 13) but he honestly does not mean it.
Bal i Rai represented Manny as a son who tries to avoid arguing his father.
Bali Rai uses the language like that, to underline these results.
