The main themes of the short story The Third and Final Continent are:
Multiculturalism ( India/Asia, Europe/Britain, America)
Marriage
Age
Acceptance (marriage, adaptation, differences…)
Main Links with other works previously studied:
The importance of hands, touch, work [symbolic (piano)]-> Intimate Apparel and Robert Frost poems
Chronological order and stream of consciousness -> The Handmaids Tale
Being foreign, different -> Intimate Apparel, The Handmaids Tale
Support of other people -> Intimate Apparel, Love in The Time of Cholera
Links:
HMT: Foreign traditions like the japanesse and the handmaids / Mrs. Croft and the guy
IA: Marriage as well as the change of living in a country then going into another one. George lived in Jamaica then went to Panama then to America.
LITTOC: Acceptance.
Frost: We never really know how the person is its amdiguous and we dont know the name of the man in the third and final continent.
Themes:
– Aging
– Cultural differences
– Adapting
Links :
– Symbolism of hands with Intimate Apparel
The main themes of the short story The Third and Final Continent are:
Multiculturalism ( India/Asia, Europe/Britain, America)
Marriage
Age
Acceptance (marriage, adaptation, differences…)
Main Links with other works previously studied:
The importance of hands, touch, work [symbolic (piano)]-> Intimate Apparel and Robert Frost poems
Chronological order and stream of consciousness -> The Handmaids Tale
Being foreign, different -> Intimate Apparel, The Handmaids Tale
Support of other people -> Intimate Apparel, Love in The Time of Cholera
Themes:
Aging
Arranged marriages
differences
Culture
Tradition
Understanding and acceptance
Relationships
Links:
HMT: Foreign traditions like the japanesse and the handmaids / Mrs. Croft and the guy
IA: Marriage as well as the change of living in a country then going into another one. George lived in Jamaica then went to Panama then to America.
LITTOC: Acceptance.
Frost: We never really know how the person is its amdiguous and we dont know the name of the man in the third and final continent.