Shervin

“Who can guess what had been in Nirmala’s mind when she started attending the class? It is possible that she longed for the education that birth had deprived her of. Can you blame her if, along the way, she fell in love with the way Ravi looked earnestly into her eyes as he urged her to remember the strange sounds of English, the shapes of its contorted letters? He was as close to a prince as anyone she knew. Aided by the romantic movies she had seen, she might naturally have cast herself in the role of the beggar maid whom he rescues. But all this is conjecture. The only thing we know for certain is what one of Mrs. Balan’s servants witnessed.”

In one amazing thing Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Nirmala and Ravi who are actually in love but because of lack of Nirmala’s education and difference in classes they were not able to get married. I think Divakaruni wanted the audience to realize the importance of education in India and show that many Indian people are deprived from education because of the class or the caste of the family that they are born in, therefore in future because of lack of education the will not be able to find a decent job or even a person from a different class to get married.

Divakaruni, Chitra. One Amazing thing. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, 2009. Print.