After a few years, when Nisha’s brother Raju born, everyone celebrates the occasion. As an elder boy, Vicky had a duty to entertain Raju in the parks and play with Nisha. Nisha also wanted to go to park with Vicky and Raju but Sona did not allow her, “It is better for girls to remain inside” (Kapur 51).
Sona explores maternal patriarchy in the novel. Sona is very careful about Nisha because she is very beautiful like her. Mary Wollstonecraft aptly asserts her claims about women’s hindrance towards freedom and independence by these two most straightforward sentences in her masterpiece A Vindication of the Rights of Women she writes:
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. (58-59) I do not wish them (women) to have power over men, but over themselves. (Wollstonecraft 81)
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Nisha: A Victim of Sexual Exploitation:
One day Nisha and Vicky were playing on the roof; he took advantage of the time and began to trace the feminine place of Nisha. She resisted him but he forced her to hold his penis until the secretion came out of it. Vicky filled with thrill but Nisha was very frightened. Vicky warned her not to tell about that incidence to family, as it was the secret between them. Nisha nodded wordlessly. Tabish Khair remarks in his review of Home in this respect, “Vicky becomes the bone of contention…making home a site of manipulation, repression and even sexual abuse” (Khair 1).
After that incidence, Nisha becomes silent. Manju Kapur has expressed Nisha’s feelings in words, “Her mother was always so particular about her being clean. Now she had done something dirty” (Kapur 55). Nisha remained silent and tried to stay away from Vicky. However, Vicky wanted to stay with Nisha and managed to spend time with her. Nisha always sleeps with her grandmother but Vicky also managed his place beside her and seduced her once again, and warned
Sona explores maternal patriarchy in the novel. Sona is very careful about Nisha because she is very beautiful like her. Mary Wollstonecraft aptly asserts her claims about women’s hindrance towards freedom and independence by these two most straightforward sentences in her masterpiece A Vindication of the Rights of Women she writes:
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. (58-59) I do not wish them (women) to have power over men, but over themselves. (Wollstonecraft 81)
The above quotation …show more content…
Nisha: A Victim of Sexual Exploitation:
One day Nisha and Vicky were playing on the roof; he took advantage of the time and began to trace the feminine place of Nisha. She resisted him but he forced her to hold his penis until the secretion came out of it. Vicky filled with thrill but Nisha was very frightened. Vicky warned her not to tell about that incidence to family, as it was the secret between them. Nisha nodded wordlessly. Tabish Khair remarks in his review of Home in this respect, “Vicky becomes the bone of contention…making home a site of manipulation, repression and even sexual abuse” (Khair 1).
After that incidence, Nisha becomes silent. Manju Kapur has expressed Nisha’s feelings in words, “Her mother was always so particular about her being clean. Now she had done something dirty” (Kapur 55). Nisha remained silent and tried to stay away from Vicky. However, Vicky wanted to stay with Nisha and managed to spend time with her. Nisha always sleeps with her grandmother but Vicky also managed his place beside her and seduced her once again, and warned