47 pages • 1 hour read
Bapsi SidhwaCracking India
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
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Assess Lenny’s reliability as a narrator. Does it change as she ages? How does this novel challenge the traditional idea reliable narration?
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Imagine the partition of your country. What do you think would be the lines of division? Would it echo the devastating political and religious fallout of India’s partition? Why or why not? In what ways?
3.
Cracking India was first titled Ice-Candy-Man. What makes Ice-candy-man central? Why did the author ultimately change the novel’s title?
