Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
A Real Durwan - Coggle Diagram
A Real Durwan
Items
Basin
Basin establishes the a change in power dynamics between the Dalal family and the rest of the tenants as the tenants have to resort to the public basin whilst the Dalai have their private ones to use in their own agency
Metaphor for economic equality, materialism (luxury)
Broom
-
acts as a source of comfort, she's emotionally attched to it as it acts as replacement for her lost family
-
Life saving
Represent a connection to her past, lavish life
-
Sheeps’s hair blanket
Never got the sheep’s hair blanket: no protection, comfort, wealth
Bracelet
Lost when entering India, lost of identity, became a refugee
Characters
Boori Ma
-
-
she has a situational irony in her expulsion, as her previous valued and trusted position as a doorkeeper is what makes her a liability when a crime occurs
Tenants
Symbol for middleclass. They look down on the Dalals because they are much wealthier than them but the also look down on Boori Ma because she is of lower status to them. She is someone the tenants can treat badly to project their anger towards the Dalals.
Dalal family
Symbol for the wealthy.
The other tenants begin to grow resentment towards them because they get a private basin in their home. The basin causes a greater divide between the famillies.
Mr Chatterjee
The tenants go to him whenever they need advice. Because communities function with a head. They listen to him when conflicting opinions arise.
Setting
Boori Ma's sleeping place: Underneath the letter boxes in front of the collapsible gate -> Rooftop Lack of privacy and inhumane conditions, rooftop reflecting her being abonded and isolated from the comfort of the apartment complex.
Market: Boori Ma ventures out of the comfort of the apartment in search of things to occupy her time, shows the resident's increasingly lack of need for Boori Ma and her isolation with development.
Simla: The Dalal family travelling highlights
the monetary and opportunity gap between the Dalal family and the residents by physically being able to seperate themselves from the apartement complex.
Action
Sleeping on newspapers: loss of status, the residences are beginning to lose trust in her as Boori Ma begins to run out of newspapers.
symbolises her loss of status, poverty and harsh conditions she deals with as a gatekeeper
Shaking her bed: She shakes the mites out of her bed that seem to be biting her back. However when Mrs Dalal checks Boori Ma's back, she sees nothing.
Shaking her sari / skeleton keys - Shaking symbolises the removal of her power and her place in society "Boori Ma shook the free end of her sari, and made her skeleton keys rattle".
-
Theft
Unforseen disasters, which are often unfairly blamed on the impoverished
-
-