Indledning
The short story “The Cord” made by Cheryl Rao in 1992. The story is about an Indian family, where Ma, the one telling the story, must accept that her son, Rohit, has found a woman that he wants to marry.
Ma is a first-person narrative which for sure is reliable. In the text, it says: “I put down Rohit’s letter and tried to keep calm. “I must not cry,” I told myself aloud.”
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Uddrag
The narrator has used different modes in the story. There are both dialogues, direct speech, and thoughts.
Ma wants an arranged marriage for her son since it worked just fine with Rohit’s two sisters, Beena and Lata.
They didn’t even complain as Rohit did! The fact that Rohit doesn’t want to listen to his mom and get an arranged marriage, is a huge problem to Ma.
Arranged marriage isn’t a thing for Rohit, and he’s proud to have found his woman on his own. We get to see that in the text, since it says: “[…]
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