A Study on Sisterly Bond In Divakaruni “Sister of My Heart”
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Divakaruni's, Sister of My Heart, imagination and sentimental memoriesAbstract
The plot of Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart revolves around the lives of two close sisters who are dependent on one another. Additionally, according to C. Bharathi, Chitra Banerjee wrote on friendships with women and how to reconcile them with the competing demands and passions that women have as mothers, lovers, and daughters (Bharathi 89). Divakaruni also emphasizes the contradictions that arise in female relationships when sisters go from the sisterhood stage to the womanhood stage. The story essentially revolves around the alluring love that binds the two women together, and it is full with unusual and lovely lingo. The flashback and flash-forward narrative devices are used by the author to coordinate the memories of the female characters. The author both artistically and autobiographically depicts the two sisters' inner conflict stemming from the separation between their imagined reality and illusion. Their imagination and sentimental memories are the source of this mental conflict in their lives.
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