Travelling, Initiation Stories, Exile

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The first document is a short story titled "Evelyn", part of James Joyce's masterpiece Dubliners, a collection of modernist short stories key to understanding modern English literature. The second document is an excerpt of "Lady coupé", a 2001 novel by Indian author Anita Nair in which the role of women in India.

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[...] Because of this doubts, and especially because of the reasons that push her away from home, this example can be classified as an exile. Evelyn feels trapped, she doesn't like either of the two options, but is forced to choose: in the end, she is unable to choose and remains paralyzed from fear on the dockyard, not traveling to Argentina as she had originally intended to. The second piece, on the contrary, shows a different main character. Akhila, possibly because she is older and more experienced, is convinced of her choice not to marry and to move away from her home. [...]

[...] She feels that in front of her lies the whole world, infinite possibilities, and feels drawn to that. Although, like Evelyn, she has reasons to flee from home, their case is different because of the personal strength Akhila shows, as well as her attraction toward the travel that she has just started. This story is analyzed by an article from the times of Oman that explains us how the travel Akhila is going to take will bring her to five different women, completely different one from the other, but all of them will have a strong impact in her life change. [...]

[...] Traveling, initiation stories and exile We are going to analyze the stories of two strong-willed women, and their approach to traveling. As we will see, two women, despite both coming from similar backgrounds and both considering running away from their family as the only chance to achieve happiness, took two very different roads. The first document is a short story titled "Evelyn", part of James Joyce's masterpiece Dubliners, a collection of modernist short stories key to understanding modern English literature. [...]