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Cracking India Questions and Answers
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The novel is told from Lenny’s first-person point of view. The action is narrated in the present tense. However, at times Lenny also speaks from the perspective of 40 years later. The things she knows are impossible for Lenny to have known as a...
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I'm not sure about masculinity but the novel shows the various ways that patriarchy ( I suppose a form of masculinity), the system by which men have power and authority over women, affects their lives. This is shown to be an older and more general...
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