Clear Light of Day

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Themes

All Themes Family, Love, and Forgiveness Memory, Change, and Identity Gender and Indian Culture Art and Social Divisions

Characters

All Characters Tara Bim Baba Raja Aunt Mira Bakul The Das Mother The Das Father Hyder Ali Dr. Biswas Misra Brothers (Brij, Manu, and Mulk) Bhakta

Terms

All Terms Jumna River Lord Byron Rabindranath Tagore Bagatelle T.S. Eliot Urdu

Symbols

All Symbols The Das House Baba’s Gramophone The Well

Literary Devices

All Literary Devices Allusions Flashbacks Foil Genre Irony Metaphors Mood Paradox Personification Setting Similes Situational Irony Stream of Consciousness Style Tone

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Introduction Intro

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Summary & Analysis

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

All Themes
Family, Love, and Forgiveness
Memory, Change, and Identity
Gender and Indian Culture
Art and Social Divisions

All Characters
Tara
Bim
Baba
Raja
Aunt Mira
Bakul
The Das Mother
The Das Father
Hyder Ali
Dr. Biswas
Misra Brothers (Brij, Manu, and Mulk)
Bhakta

All Terms
Jumna River
Lord Byron
Rabindranath Tagore
Bagatelle
T.S. Eliot
Urdu

All Symbols
The Das House
Baba’s Gramophone
The Well

All Literary Devices
Allusions
Flashbacks
Foil
Genre
Irony
Metaphors
Mood
Paradox
Personification
Setting
Similes
Situational Irony
Stream of Consciousness
Style
Tone

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