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Foreword-Chapter 3
· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Rao, Raja. Kanthapura. New Directions, 1963. Hardcover.
· In the “Author’s Foreward,” Rao wrote that villages in India all had rich legendary histories about gods or godlike heroes.
· Rao commented on the difficulties of writing in English, not his native tongue.
· Then there was the struggle with style and attempting to infuse the rhythm of Indian life into English expressions.
· Indian storytelling was very different from English storytelling.
· The story is told from the point of view of Achakka, a widow.
· Her narration uses the stream-of-consciousness technique and the story is not told in a linear fashion.
· For clarity, chapter abstracts are written in the past tense.
· In Chapter 1, Achakka, the narrator introduced readers to Kanthapura.
· The village was located in the province of Kara high in the Ghats Mountains.
· Narrow, dusty, rut-covered roads led...
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