Analysis Of A Devoted Son By Anita Desai

Anita 's father was Indian and her mother was German. Ts unusual heritage may have contributed to her understanding of people many different cultures. She displays this understanding in finely crafted novels and short stories about conflicts among characters of different generation and backgrounds. These works of fiction have gained her a reputation as one of the most gifted Indian novelists writing in English. Desai was born in the northern Indian town of Mussoorie, located at the foot of the Himalayas mountains, She grew up in the old section of delhi, India 's capital city. In her story A Devoted Son by Anita Desai there are life learning messages that can be taken from it, one of them is respect and another one is growing up and the last one is taking care of your parents.

The first message in the story A Devoted Son by Anita Desai is respect. In these indian type families respect means a lot to the parents. The children have to follow their rules and do basically whatever they have to say. If they get ask to marry a certain …show more content…
It is kind of ironic how when we 're younger and growing up in our teens that our parents have to take care of us and everything. Well as life goes on he role changes and we have to take care of them because they can 't take care of themselves. In this story his whole childhood his dad took care of him and now the roles are starting to switch and the father doesn 't like it.”Let me die, it would be better,” is the dad saying that he hates being taken care of. The son is a doctor and has to tell his dad all the stuff he can 't do anymore and the other hates it. One day i 'm going to have to do this with both of my parents and that will be some type of experience. Hopefully everyone will have to take care of your parents because they took care of you. Besides the people who didn’t and that is their choice but it is usually the other way