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A remote village, with only two rumshops and some food shops and surrounded by sugarcane fields, where Mr Biswas operates a store for six years.
The Chase Quotes in A House for Mr Biswas
The A House for Mr Biswas quotes below are all either spoken by The Chase or refer to The Chase. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Chapter 2 Quotes
Mr Biswas had never thought of Tulsi property as belonging to any particular person. Everything, the land at Green Vale, the shop at The Chase, belonged simply to the House. But the lorries were Seth’s.
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When Mr Biswas gets kicked out of Mrs Tulsi’s house in Port of Spain, he realizes that it is not truly Mrs Tulsi’s at all—it belongs to Seth. Mr Biswas is again displaced, this time at no fault of his own, because of conflicts over limited resources and living space. This demonstrates a tension and shift in ideologies of property: the Tulsis almost always share their property and resources with everyone in the family (which is why Mr Biswas never sees “Tulsi property as belonging to any particular person”), but as Seth increasingly seeks to claim all their holdings for Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor a
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The Chase Term Timeline in A House for Mr Biswas
The timeline below shows where the term The Chase appears in A House for Mr Biswas. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1, Chapter 3: The Tulsis
...news that he would be running a shop for the Tulsis “in a village called The Chase .” Nothing could change the fact that Mr Biswas was now married. Tara explained that...
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Nobody mentioned the store in The Chase , so Mr Biswas continued his sign-writing as best he could until he struck up...
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...morning, Seth kicked Mr Biswas out of the house. He went to the shop in The Chase along with Shama, who was pregnant
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Part 1, Chapter 5: Green Vale
The following Saturday, Seth told Mr Biswas that the shop in The Chase “insuranburn now,” giving him 75 dollars, which he added to the fund for his house....
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