cultural+transformation

Characters this motif applies to: Anne, Olivia and Chid

-Anne and Olivia succeeded in their cultural transformations; Olivia spent the rest of her days living in India with an Indian man, and Anne had a baby that was part Indian, also while living in India.

-Chid did not succeed in his cultural transformation because: a) He had planned for it and had no doubts that his experiences in India would be anything but facinating and enlightening. b) He only became a holy man only so he could feel better about his own life, while Anne wanted to better understand a woman who's life she found facinating, and Olivia never saw it coming. __ Evidence __ -Second paragraph on page 148 to top of p. 149 - Major Minnies' theories regarding cultural transformation in Europeans living in India -Any passages that feature Chid -Anne was embracing Indian culture as soon as she arrived; partly because she knew she didn't have much choice, India in 1975 was a very different place than it was in 1923, but also because she was purposely letting that part of her that was facinated with India outshout the part of her that was resisting this foreign culture, because she wanted to experience what it felt like to be overcome by a foreign culture, as had happened with Olivia.