... , but he feels alienated from his family, who lost their lands in the 1947 Partition and now own a failing general store. He has been sent to the city from their mountain home to attend college and train as an engineer, a profession that his parents see as the only hope for his financial survival. Placing such a disparate quartet into a cramped apartment and ... one another. Unlike the earlier fiction, A Fine Balance goes outside the secure flat and beyond the city by the sea into the village of the two tailors and the idyllic mountain home of the student. These locales are rendered with...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , but he feels alienated from his family, who lost their lands in the 1947 Partition and now own a failing general store. He has been sent to the city from their mountain home to attend college and train as an engineer, a profession that his parents see as the only hope for his financial survival. Placing such a disparate quartet into a cramped apartment and ... one another. Unlike the earlier fiction, A Fine Balance goes outside the secure flat and beyond the city by the sea into the village of the two tailors and the idyllic mountain home of the student. These locales are rendered with...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the Aedificium makes the strongest impression. Although its southern side is situated on a level area of the site, its northern side "seemed to grow from the steep side of the mountain, a sheer drop" (Eco, 1983). According to the site plan, that is the only side of the building outside the monastery wall; so the cliffside location offers extra protection. That type ... ...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate