Character and roles of uma in exercise book?
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Uma is the novel's spirited, oppressed heroine, the never-married daughter of a middle-class family in rural India. At an early age, Uma disappoints her parents by enthusiastically pursuing school, despite her failing grades, and showing no interest in domestic duties. Against Uma's will, Mama and Papa remove her from the convent school early, forcing her to stay at home and take care of her baby brother, Arun. Uma's parents struggle to find a husband interested in marrying Uma, who isn't pretty, accomplished or flirtatious like her sister Aruna. After several failed marriage attempts, Uma's parents resign their daughter to a life at home taking care of them. Uma's parents neglect her physical and emotional needs, demanding all of her energies and allowing her few freedoms. Yet, she loves people, poetry, and wandering, and is fearless and curious about new people and situations. She has seizures throughout the novel, a characteristic that represents her differentness from her family and society.
Uma Quotes in Fasting, Feasting
The Fasting, Feasting quotes below are all either spoken by Uma or refer to Uma. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: Gender and Social Roles Theme Icon). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Houghton Mifflin edition of Fasting, Feasting published in 2000.