Gist of the June meeting

Two topics were discussed. Here is the gist of both, courtesy Renuka.

Extraordinary Traits in Ordinary Women

Each of us has met in the course of our lives women who may not be extraordinary in the superficial sense of the word but truly extraordinary in the real sense. Women who are heaped with abuses psychological and physical and put through untold misery. These women, they do not break but make their family not because of the male member but despite him.

Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice) and Maria (The Sound of Music), the endearingly extraordinary characters come to our mind.

Depiction of animals in literature.

Animals can be depicted in a most cursory manner just as a prop or can be an extension of the protagonist’s character. Some themes revolve around the animal endowing them with prominence. Animals, with all the vast variety, character and colour can keep us glued to our books for eternity. Well, the first topic did seem to gel seamlessly into the second as much as the extraordinary traits in ordinary animals.