When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine, is a great short story that displays how we all individuals are alike to one another and one thing that separates us borders that make us all different from each other. Borders play a major role in our like making us different from one another, within countries, and cultures as well. The OED defines “borders” as, “A side, edge, brink, or margin; a limit, or boundary; the part of anything lying along its boundary or outline”. In other words a border is what limits us from one another. This is similar to relationship that Lilia and her family and Mr. Pirzada share. There is a physical border that separates Lilia and Mr. Pirzada from back home. Lilia’s family is from India and now they are in America for better
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Pirzada. As a ten year old narrator we see confusion in her as she is discovering many new things herself. The confusion starts from Lilia whom is trying to find out who this man is who comes to their house very so often. In other words, as Lilia states, “It made no sense to me. Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, and laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same” (pg. 25). This line reveals that Lilia doesn’t know who he really is and for her he looks like her family making her even confused of who he really is what he is doing here. As she was trying to solve the mystery her father created more by saying that they are not the same. But on pg. 30 as she states, “Now that I had learned Mr. Pirzada was not an Indian, O began to study him with extra care, to try to figure out what made him different”. This line that the curiosity was more of the border between them. But every time Mr. Pirzada offered Lilia a piece of candy it seemed like he was offering a hand of friendship and end to uncertainty and it did seem like for Lilia it as happening. She saving the candy in her special box and worrying about his daughters being safe explains that even though there was a sense of confusion between them too they both tried to know each other where he probably felt like that Lilia was his daughter and she felt sympathy for him as a stranger to a country and even to
Pirzada. As a ten year old narrator we see confusion in her as she is discovering many new things herself. The confusion starts from Lilia whom is trying to find out who this man is who comes to their house very so often. In other words, as Lilia states, “It made no sense to me. Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, and laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same” (pg. 25). This line reveals that Lilia doesn’t know who he really is and for her he looks like her family making her even confused of who he really is what he is doing here. As she was trying to solve the mystery her father created more by saying that they are not the same. But on pg. 30 as she states, “Now that I had learned Mr. Pirzada was not an Indian, O began to study him with extra care, to try to figure out what made him different”. This line that the curiosity was more of the border between them. But every time Mr. Pirzada offered Lilia a piece of candy it seemed like he was offering a hand of friendship and end to uncertainty and it did seem like for Lilia it as happening. She saving the candy in her special box and worrying about his daughters being safe explains that even though there was a sense of confusion between them too they both tried to know each other where he probably felt like that Lilia was his daughter and she felt sympathy for him as a stranger to a country and even to