Anita and Me

On the 17th October 2015 we went to watch the performance adaptation of Anita and me at the Birmingham REP by Meera Syal and adapted by Tanika Gupta. The performance starred Mandeep Dhillon as Meena and Jalleh Alizadeh as Anita. The play is a touching example of a beautiful coming of age story and follows the tale of a British-Punjabi girl growing up in the Black Country during the 1970s it explores Meena’s struggle to fit into local culture. She soon develop friendships with both Anita and Sam (played by Joseph Drake), however these friendships soon lead to a struggle between friendship and family. A remarkable moment of the performance for myself was the scene in which Anita and Meena are in the family home, which was created by an intuitive,…

death, there is pain. Not just pain for the sick, but a pain left unbearable for the survivors. Anita Moorjani, a woman who has experienced both, and shares her story with the world. In her book, “Dying to Be Me,” Anita discusses her life before cancer, during cancer, and death after cancer. Isn’t it hard to believe that one could come back from such a thing as the hands of death? For someone to go from cold and lifeless, back to warm and glowing? In a seemingly “impossible” way, Anita escaped…

twelve-year-old Anita in 1960. Alvarez masterfully depicts the oppressive regime's grip on society, as propaganda and fear enforce loyalty to El Jefe. Anita's coming-of-age journey parallels the growing resistance against Trujillo, as her family becomes embroiled in the revolution to overthrow him. Throughout the novel, Anita undergoes a profound transformation, shedding her initial indoctrination with Trujillo's "greatness"…

extensive theme displayed throughout the novel as Anita and her family long for just a taste and go through desperate measures…

and physical abuse towards his girlfriend, Anita Wade. During the short story, David Allen exploits Anita’s emotions with the intent of controlling her. Firstly, after a party where David creates a violent scene, he attributes his actions to his mother. Explaining, how she “[left] him and his father after a [little…

In this age, she believes in supernatural and spirits! She hasn’t stopped fretting since that night. She said she heard water running from the master bathroom and when she went to check she saw blood gushing out of the shower! When I reached she was on the floor crying, the bathroom was all clean and dry! Tanya is trying her best to act ok, but watching her mother like this is taking a toll on her. August 9th Took Anita to doctor today. He say it’s some kind of mental stress. I don’t know what’s…

The Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas case has been labeled as one of the most controversial cases in history. Clarence Thomas was a 43 year old judge who had just been nominated to the Supreme Court in 1991. Soon after he was nominated, Anita Hill accused him of sexual assault in the workplace during the time that they worked together at the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. As controversial as this case may have been it only hindered Clarence Thomas’ way up to the Supreme Court. The case…

Anita Hill is an African American woman who is a law professor and attorney. In 1991, Anita worked for Clarence Thomas, a former Supreme Court nominee, as his assistant. A few months after, he asked her to go out with him and she rejected him. He sexually harassed her with disturbing comments and pornography. It took her ten years to have the courage and strength to testify. As she says in her testimony, it would have been easier and more comfortable for her to stay quiet, but she knew she had…

Great Gatsby and Player Piano are very different stories: one is about the future and one is about the past, one is about love and one is about machines, one has parties and one has government coups. The stories contrast in every way imaginable, and yet though they seem to have nothing in common, two characters, across these differences, bring these novels together. Daisy and Anita from these two novels are brought together by the common theme of unhappiness in their lives, and their places in…

Before We Were Free, written by Julia Alvarez is a historical fiction book based on a young girl who goes by the name Anita. Anita and her family live in the Dominican Republic on a compound along with her distant relatives. As the months go by, Anita starts to notice that her relatives are leaving the compound one by one except for her family. Papi, Anita's dad, starts attending secret meetings and readers later discover that he was planning to assassinate Rafael Trujillo, the dictator of the…