The Mistress Of Spices
The Paradise
Encarta World English Dictionary defines Paradise as “a place or state of perfect happiness: a place, situation, or condition in which somebody finds perfect happiness”. In 1997, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wrote “the Mistress of Spices”, a novel based around Tilo, a very mysterious shop keeper, who fells in love with Raven, an ordinary American. The author uses Tilo and Raven to show how in three separate stages of their lives their definition of paradise changed. It is the evolution through these stages that the author proves that Tilo and Raven ultimately reach their personal paradise.
The three stages that Tilo and Raven went through were very different. In the first stage as Tilo was born, “the midwife cried out at the veiny purple cowl over my face, and the fortune-teller in the rainfly-filled evening shook his head sorrowfully at my father” (page 8). The author goes on to explain “They named me Nayan Tara, Star of the Eye but my......
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