When Rukmani recalls running through her garden when she was pregnant, she says, "I realized I must have looked like a water buffalo, running in such a frenzy." In an extended simile, Rukmani remarks,
Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid; but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.
During the festival of Deepavali, Rukmani watches in wonder at the brilliant fireworks, noting, "Now and then a rocket would tear into the sky, break and pour out its riches like precious jewels into the darkness."
And what is your question about it? It's a good book and if you want a summary all you have to do is google it and you will come up with quite a few websites.
There are no similes for the name Jaidyn, many people think that it is a horrible name but some obviously do not.
I am weird like my cat
You can sift flour using a sieve.
the tree was swaying like wave
"Nectar in a Sieve" was written by Kamala Markandaya and first published in 1954.
Nectar in a Sieve has 190 pages.
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Sure! A possible thesis for "Nectar in a Sieve" could be: "The novel 'Nectar in a Sieve' explores the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity, highlighting the importance of perseverance and hope amidst challenges such as poverty, modernization, and loss."
The title "Nectar in a Sieve" symbolizes the idea of trying to grasp something precious and fleeting, only to have it slip through your fingers. The nectar represents sustenance, beauty, and sweetness, while the sieve represents the inevitable loss or inability to fully retain these qualities.
Perhaps, if the regal government constitutes the ability to sieve nectar, provided it is in a powdered state thus allowing it to be sieved, if that is the case then perhaps the dictionary of law will allow the ability to sieve the substance in question, which it does in Page 397, Paragraph 2 Of The regal Constitution Of nectar Sieving.
He grows rice.
"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live." right before the introduction.
she didnt!! :D
The use of allusion in "Nectar in a Sieve" is that everything will be okay no matter everything not being okay. Bad things constantly happen to the main character, but their hope and the writing elude that something good may eventually happen.
Arjun, Thambi, Murugan, Raja, Selvam, and Kuti.
Rural India, during a time when there was a lot of urban development in the land.