A Passage To India - E.M. Forster

Advantages: It got me an A in Higher English
Disadvantages: I spent a year reviewing it!

...India” by E.M Forster, is a novel set at the end of the British Raj over India. Set in the fictional city of Chandrapore, Forster clearly explores the problems with the British bureaucracy ruling a country they knew very little about. Despite being based on the poem “A Passage to India” by Walt Whitman, Forster contrasts every theory explored in this poem. While the Suez Canal was an act of blending two cultures together Forster depicts the lack ...
...Marabar Caves. However, due to a hallucination or another person Adela is “insulted” in one of the caves and makes her accusation against Aziz. Ironically Miss Quested’s desire to the real India results in one of the most heightened racial divisions Chandrapore has ever witnessed. Ironically this novel, which is saturated with prejudiced and racist comments, opens with one of the most precious human connections between two individuals of two different ... Read review

Advantages: different, complex, multi-dimensional characters
Disadvantages: slow moving at times

...spirituality and questions himself and who he is. The portrayal of his character; general questioning and themes reminded me considerably of E.M Forster's characters in a Passage to India and the underlying tones are also similar. This is the kind of book where the excitement hapens between the lines it is not spelt out for the reader. The effect of this is that there is a lot of room for interpretation and this adds a depth to the novel that is not found in many new novels. This is not the kind of book that you cannot put down, it took me about 3 months to read and i must have read about 12 books in between! The reason for this is because not that much happens and there is little suspense until the end. It is slow going but i enjoyed it none the less. I think one needs to read such a book slowly because it requires the reader to think about... Read review

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