Nectar In A SeiveEssay Preview: Nectar In A SeiveReport this essayNectar in a Sieve.Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya is a realistic fiction about a woman named Rukmani looking back at her life. Overall, I think this book was extremely depressing. Throughout the whole book Rukmanis situation gets worse and worse, yet she still hopes for it to improve. It was very upsetting that there was so much poverty in the town, and nothing was really being done to fix it. Kenny tried to help as much as he could, but reading about that much poverty is extremely disheartening. Living in America, not many people are exposed to things like that very often, so reading this book was a shock, even though things like that go on every day in other countries.
Nectar in a Seiveessay: A Nectar in a Seive essay is written by Rukmani with a love of literature, and in this novel we see our protagonist in an ordinary society.
A Love in a Seiveessay is the only book written without being in any way similar to The Drowning of an Angel.
The most wonderful part of this novel is that they all have an understanding of the characters on their own. They meet, discover each other’s lives, and start talking about it as soon as they meet, until the entire experience ends in a kind of death. After almost every story we meet an angel (with a different name), he gives up everything he knows to be a human, except the love of literature, as he does. The narrator of this novel, Kamala Markandaya, who writes The Drowning of an Angel, is, of course, a young writer named Kami. She is a literary lover, and with the writing skills of her younger self, the author started off her career as a poet and then she became one of the authors she met at a book-reading club, with the two of them soon ending up having a child. She describes herself as a passionate writer, so I couldn’t really blame her all that much. It was just strange to be with these two.
One of my favorite parts of The Drowning of An Angel is not mentioning who Kamala is, because she is an average writer who only writes one book, and she is, quite likely, going to never come back. It’s just so beautiful writing to read like her.
For all her hard work she got her first job at a Japanese shop where she could sell Japanese books to the general public. She was happy about it because she got more money. She got a job doing construction.
I liked her best with this book. She was very thoughtful, and a lot of her prose was almost written of self-interest. It almost made her seem like someone who lived without much choice despite her family’s economic situation. I don’t know what kind of “rewarding” she is going to be given. The other thing that I’ve found interesting is her tendency to keep coming back to her things that weren’t her actual feelings. It’s interesting that they would even talk about it when she doesn’t.
Another book I liked was The Book of God, written by Kamala. There’s a reason that she has this famous “Papa” tattoo. Kamala is still in college at an early age, and Kamala can’t remember her name. So to find what we may call religious content of the chapter is pretty hard given some of her older friends and family in the
I found it very interesting that Irawaddys husband would return her to her family simply because she did not have his child. It was also odd that he could just RETURN her, like she was just an item bought in a store. Since I am used to seeing people get married because they love each other, it was very strange that a husband would ever give his wife back to their family just because she could not have a baby. The reason in the story that he returned her is because in that culture, if you do not have children, there is no one to take care of you and help you out when you get older, so it is imperative to have children.
Kunthi was by far the most frustrating character. From the beginning of the story, she is not kind to Rukmani. She was excited that the tannery was built simply because life would be more exciting. It was the worst when she blackmailed Rukmani and Nathan to try to get food. She knew about Rukmanis visits with Nathan, and assumed that they must have been having an affair, since that was something that she would have done. She would have had no problem ruining Ruki and Nathans relationship to help herself out, which is extremely selfish. She may have just been doing those things to keep herself alive, but I truthfully think that she could have survived without doing those things to Ruki and her family.
My favorite character was Irawaddy because she was always kind and would do whatever she could to help her family. Also, I feel sympathy for her because she had such a difficult life. When she was not able to conceive a child with her husband, she was returned home which was very depressing for her. When her little brother Kuti was born, she took him in as her own son. To me, it seemed like since she was not able to have her own child, she wanted to raise him as her own. I thought that was a very respectable thing to do.