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Games at Twilight
Children are amazingly resilient, and tend to bounce back from situations pretty quickly. Anita Desai did a good job of capturing the despair that Ravi felt; such dramatic tragedy felt by the...
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Games at Twilight
"Games at Twilight" is a wonderful story, and the suspense that Desai builds within the story is a huge reason as for why the story is so good and motivates young readers to finish the story. The...
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Games at Twilight
Ravi learns that despite his victory over his peers and even older children at the hide-and-seek game, he still remains just as insignificant as he was before. He felt his heart go heavy and ache...
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Games at Twilight
At the beginning of the story, the children decide to play a game of hide-and-seek. Ravi, the story’s protagonist, feels smaller and weaker than the other boys, especially the game’s seeker,...
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Games at Twilight
Raghu is just a minor character in this excellent short story, with the main focus being on Ravi and his sensitivity and development. However, we are given a number of indications about Raghu and...
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Games at Twilight
In "Games at Twilight" Anita Desai has the ability to portray childhood in all of its excitement and exhilaration, innocence, vulnerability, and even heartached. The theme of childhood is one that...
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Games at Twilight
The first image that comes to my mind about loss and death in "Games at Twilight" is the image of the dog sprawled out on the ground. The day is hot. Really hot. Not even the dog wants to move a...
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Games at Twilight
My overall impression of the children in Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight" is that they are portrayed very realistically. In the beginning of the story, the children are going stir crazy, because...
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Games at Twilight
“Games at Twilight” takes place in India, at the home of a large family on a very hot summer day. We first see the children in mid-afternoon, an “arid time of day” when “no life stirred…the birds...
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Games at Twilight
Ravi's first major action that has consequences is his decision to stay hidden for a very long time. The consequence is that all of the other kids forget about Ravi. Ravi is out of sight for so...
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Games at Twilight
The climax of "Games at Twilight" occurs when Ravi runs out of his hiding spot and shouts "den" to claim his victory. The denouement, or falling action, of the story is when the kids do not give...
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Games at Twilight
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by theme statement. I think that you might be asking for a theme that is stated or present within the story. One theme that I think is clearly illustrated by...
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Games at Twilight
"Games at Twilight" by Anita Desai is a touching and very well-written account of Ravi, who learns a profound life lesson while playing a classic child's game of Hide 'N' Seek. The story recounts,...
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Games at Twilight
The color red is mentioned in the story's opening paragraph. It is being used to describe the children's faces. The first sentence of the story tells readers that the day has been really hot....
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Games at Twilight
Some readers would say that the children are doing nothing at the beginning of the story. Those readers do not have children of their own or they have never tried to keep kids inside on a rainy...
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Games at Twilight
Given the very wide ranging import of postcolonial criticism, this question could be answered in a number of different ways. In one sense postcolonialism is about celebrating voices from the...
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Games at Twilight
The setting of the story is a large garden somewhere in India. The general, broad setting is in India. That's never stated, but the details about tea time and brown skin colors lead readers to...
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Games at Twilight
Arguably, one of the central messages of this great short story is the way that we all go through a transition from innocence to experience, like Ravi does, that involves a recognition of our own...
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Games at Twilight
The main theme of "Games at Twilight" is two-fold. Desai has written "Games at Twilight" as a Fruedian exploration of a child's play and unconscious reality. Twilight symbolizes the unconscious...
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Games at Twilight
There are certainly a number of very specific images in this rich, visual work of literature that suggest loss and death, which could be said to foreshadow the "death" of Ravi at the end of this...
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Games at Twilight
The setting of Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight" is tropical India. The year is never established, but the story likely takes place during the time that Britain still ruled India. The second...
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Games at Twilight
The narrative point of view for this story is always third person; however, the third person narrative voice does shift from a third person omniscient narration to a third person limited narration....
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Games at Twilight
Atmosphere, also called mood, in a literary work is the emotional feeling created by the work from within the setting. It is a literary element and as such is a literary device common to all works...
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Games at Twilight
I would say that the best line is this one: "They had quite forgotten him." A few paragraphs earlier though, the reader is given some hints that the other children have forgotten about Ravi and...
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Games at Twilight
This is an excellent story! Central to this tale is the irony of the main protagonist, Ravi, experiences at the end of the story. Let us just remind ourselves of the main events of the tale. It is...
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Games at Twilight
In the story, the author describes the children's play as 'the business of the children's day.' There are two underlying assumptions here. First, the business of children is to play; through play,...
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Games at Twilight
In Games At Twilight, innocent Ravi learns that the world can be a cruel place and that one can feel insignificant and lonely even among friends and family. When his older brother, Raghu, becomes...
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Games at Twilight
Raghu is a minor character in this short story, featured briefly at the beginning. The story is about a group of children that are allowed outside to play hide and go seek. Raghu, since he is the...
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Games at Twilight
Ravi is a typical little boy, who likes to play games with his friends, and dreams of coming out triumphant in a game of hide 'n' seek. He displays a lot of typical little boy attributes: he...
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Games at Twilight
Ravi is the character who, as the story progresses, we see more and more of the action from his point of view. When we start he is just one of many children eager to go outside and play. He seems...
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Games at Twilight
There isn't a lot of textual description regarding the garden in "Games at Twilight." The main focus of the "nature" description is about the weather. It is hot. Really hot. Their faces were...
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Games at Twilight
This story is told in chronological order. The kids beg to get outside. They are let out. They play a game. Ravi worries about Raghu. Ravi claims victory, and nobody believes him. I can't say that...
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Games at Twilight
As the kids are cooped up in the house, and are finally let out, "they burst out like seeds from a crackling, overripe pod into the veranda, with such wild, maniacal yells." Her simile...
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Games at Twilight
The story takes place in India, where a bunch of children are playing inside a house. It is summertime, and the weather outside is so hot that everyone has crowded indoors to try to escape the...
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Games at Twilight
The first paragraph clues the reader in to the fact that the story is not happening in the United States. The main hint in that paragraph for me is the fact that the children had "tea." Tea is...
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Games at Twilight
The theme of expectation vs. reality is illustrated through the character of Ravi during the game of hide-and-seek. Ravi isn't a leader among the other children. It could be because he is younger...
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Games at Twilight
This short story is all about growing up and learning about one's true insignificance in the grand scheme of things. The story explores the way in which children play games that teach them...
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Games at Twilight
Tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject. This short story is largely about childhood. In the beginning of the story, the tone is both serious and desperate. The children cannot wait to...
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Games at Twilight
In a word: awesome. Ravi wants to win the hide and seek game so badly that he can practically taste the victory. What fun if they were all found and caught—he alone left unconquered! He had...
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Games at Twilight
He stayed in the garage for too long. He was delighted with his awesome hiding place; there are a couple moments when he almost decided to bolt and take his chances, but then he heard kids...
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Games at Twilight
Mira is the alpha leader of the group. Kids do what she says, because she has a dominating personality. Some people might call is bossy, and I would agree with that, but the story describes her...
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Games at Twilight
As Ravi hides himself in the shed, trying to find an excellent hiding place that will win him the game of hide and seek and protect him from Raghu, Ravi is initially afraid of being in the shed....
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Games at Twilight
I believe "the suspenseful moment" that the question is referring to is meant to indicate the time that Ravi spends hiding from Raghu in the shed. You are correct; it is a very suspenseful...
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Games at Twilight
The children in the story "Games at Twilight" are super eager to play outside, because they have been cooped up inside all day. On top of being imprisoned inside all day, the house that they are...
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Games at Twilight
That's a good question because that is not one of the typical themes that gets focused on in this story. I would say that the theme of loneliness is dealt with and best illustrated through the...
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Games at Twilight
A protagonist is the main character. In this story, the protagonist is Ravi, a small introspective boy who is a member of a large family. An antagonist is the opposing force against whom the main...
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Games at Twilight
The title of this story bugged me the first time that I read the story. It bugged me because when I started reading the story, it was clear that the children were not playing any games at...
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Games at Twilight
I think that there are several ways that a postcolonial critique of Desai's work could look. Fundamentally, it has to be presumed that this game of hide and seek is a representation of something...
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Games at Twilight
"Games at Twilight" is the first story in Anita Desai's collection of short stories, Games at Twilight and Other Stories, originally published in 1978. "Games at Twilight" is the story of Ravi. As...
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Games at Twilight
In “Games at Twilight,” Ravi is younger than all the other children. It is partly for this reason that he remains so long in his hiding place; he is intent on winning the game of hide-and-seek,...