Rukmani's life is filled with struggle, yet she remains resolutely optimistic about her future. Married off to a poor rice farmer at the age of 12, Rukmani struggles through loneliness, infertility, starvation, and great loss with persevering optimism. The novel's title, Nectar in a Sieve, refers to nectar, a sweet liquid, and a sieve, a device with meshes that allows liquid to pass through while trapping solids in the device. The title suggests Rukmani's ability to appreciate the short, sweet moments in life before they disappear. During the Deepavali celebration in Chapter 10, for example, Rukmani's family struggles to eat, yet she doles out precious pennies for the children to buy fireworks because "it is only once ... a memory." Similarly, at the end of the novel when she and Nathan have been saving to return to the village, she feels overcome with happiness while at the market with Puli. She buys fried pancakes instead of plain rice cakes and wooden toys for the children: "Well, if we are extravagant it is only once." No matter what suffering comes Rukmani's way, she maintains optimism that life can only get better. She tells Kenny, "Want is our companion from birth to death." Rather than wallow in what's lacking, Rukmani always chooses to look ahead: to the next meal, the next year, or the next harvest.
Yes and no, your thesis statement <span>states the main idea of your writing but it reflects on all of the points made in the writing.</span>
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"Provisional drivers could each save up to £500 on their car insurance by undertaking advanced driving lessons," the government has confirmed. "We want people to go on improving their driving skills throughout their driving careers," said David Ashworth, a junior minister at the Department for Transport. "This is about creating the right sort of education and incentivising people to do it."
Explanation:
<u>Inverted commas are also known as quotation marks. Their purpose is to indicate which words or sentences inside that structure were spoken by someone. We place a pair of inverted commas at the beginning of that person's speech, and another one at the ending. If the speech is interrupted by the author's words, the inverted commas can simply be placed again once the speech is resumed.</u>
The setting gives the reader an opportunity to imagine. The setting has a big part on the poem because it seems to wrap it together.
Answer:
He wanted to inform readers about what he saw and learned on his journey.
Explanation:
Marco Polo was a traveler who traveled from Europe to Asia. At the age of seventeen, Marco left for the voyage to Asia. He is considered as the world's first travel writer. His travelogue contains the details of his journey and of what he saw on his voyage. The "Travels of Marco Polo" is the title of his travelogue. It was originally titled as "The Description of the World". The credibility of his travelogue is doubted as he wrote about such places that were never found to exist.
The purpose of Polo's writing travelogue was to inform his readers about the things and places he went and saw and things that he learned.
So, the correct answer is third option.
