Well, I guess working on the blog was a great experience for all of us. Mentionable is that I liked this way of working because you have sources close to you in the internet and it is easy to publish your text so that everybody can make her/his own opinion about your working-style etc. Further, it is very helpful getting some comments to know what was good or not, criticism is good for improving your style and learning from your own faults. Moreover, an important point is that you (more to say I) have become more certain in writing texts and learning new vocabulary.

All in all, my experience about blogging was a good one but nevertheless it was very time-consuming.

The beginning of the film is already different from the book. It begins when Douglas is searching for Olivia after she escaped from the hospital.

The story of the narrator (Anne) is introduced when she still stays in England. Later, the both plots continues as in the book. Olivia at first isn`t getting used to his new home and feels lonely but soon she gets to know the Nawab and gets pregnant by her life becomes a chaos, considering Douglas and the British society.

The narrator, Anne accepts her new life and feels good. She gets to know Inder Lal with whom she stays all the time and has an affair. She also gets pregnant and wants an abortion but ultimately changes her mind. At the end, Anne lives in the house where Olivia already lived in.

I have to mention that if I hadn`t read the book I wouldn`t have understand the film because it was very difficult to see and nearly not noticeable that the film shows two plots in two different times.

Moreover, persons like Maji or Harry weren´t involved so much in the story than in the book. Accordingly, yo didn´t know what special persons they were in the narrator`s and Olivia`s lives. In general, to my mind, the film was very cursorily because many facts or situation were missed.

All in all, I didn´t like the film so much because of its confusion.

Firstly I had problems to get into the book because yet at the first page I felt like being snowed under with many facts and informations at the same time.  Also the plot is divided into two differents stories. One story takes place in the 20ties and the other story in the 70ties in the 19th century in India . I had to get used to these parts as well because I always had to pay much attention on which story I was reading at the moment. Moreover I have to mention that the book was written too detailed sometimes and often that made the reading interminable, uninteresting and boring. Also the end was disappointing because I didn`t imagined such a (stumpf) ending where many questions still were opened as I sad in one of my other entries. At least I have to say that it was hard for me to get enthausiastic about reading the book because I and my other class mates were compulsived to read the book in our English class and often that makes me less motivated to read a book and more when this book also doesn`t interest me very much.

One day after the abortion Olivia returns distraughtly to Douglas because the night before she knew that everything she had done in the past was the worst. She knew as well that the baby she ever wanted should be only of Douglas and not of an other man. She doesn`t know why she was so naive to begin an affair with the Nawab and to be dependent on him. Finally Olivia knows that she wants Douglas back and hopes to clarify everything in a peaceful way. Olivia wants to mention that his workaholic life and sometimes his disinterest to her life made her feel thoughtful and sad so that the presence of the Nawab and the way of treating her made her feel like something special and important in her new loneliness life in India. Olivia makes many plans to get Douglas back but at the end everything seems to be hopeless and Olivia notes that he is offended by a person as never before, a person who he loved with all his heart but then who had destroyed his life overnight. Douglas says to her that he doesn`t want to see her anymore and soon leaves India forever to make a world trip. Olivia is difficult (schwerfallen) to accept his decision but in reality she knows that he is right and that she can´t make up for (etw. wieder gut machen) what she had done. So at least that makes her think about the Nawab again and soon something happened what she never had imagined before. The Nawab takes everything very calmly about what had happened and that is the attitude which she needs in this moment of trouble. She lives with him for a while and nevermore gets in contact with the British society. But later after some time Olivia is tired of the Nawab and she realizes that everything between them had changed and there wasn`t passion between them anymore . Further Olivia decides to leave India and to return to England to live with her sister Marcia because nothing holds her to stay in India. The Nawab continues normally with less power India and with Harry on his side who still isn`t allowed to return to England. The narrator at first continues with her (its) life as before but then Inder Lal confesses to her and their baby and everything about their relationship becomes public. Inder Lal decides in favour of the narrator, leaves his family and both together goes to another place in India to start a new with their own family.

When Olivia left the hospital she felt relieved and in a way was happy to escape from that situation. She couldn´t look in Douglas eyes anymore and wouldn`t have known how to handle everything with Douglas further. It really wasn`t easy for her to leave him but indeed it was the easiest way to go ahead and to cut the past with him. Olivia wanted to start new and look further. Perhaps the relationship with the Nawab could be kept.

destitute = verarmt

eloquient = redselig

to enumerate = aufzählen, durchzählen

indeed = allerdings, tatsächlich

extent = Ausmaß

moisture = Feuchtigkeit, Nässe

to shroud = verbergen, umhüllen, umwölken

unbearable = unerträglich, unausstehlich

irresistible = unaufhaltsam

bliss = Glückseligkeit, Wonne

flushed = errötet

to loosen = lockern, lösen

to seal in = einschließen

rapture = Begeisterung

After losing all the power in Kathum because of British authorities the Nawab now has less then before and the reconciliation with his wife doesn´t bring him further as well because he has to support his wife, his mother and Olivia financially, too and still has to pay for everything of the palace. Concluding he has financial and physical problems so that he decides to go to England to start a better life. The Nawab hopes to get in a higher position like in the government to get more power and money again. But his real life doesn`t continue like that. He only sees Harry sometimes in England and gets to know Marcia, Olivia´s sister. His problems continue and as time goes by he becomes very fat After some time he lives in New York in the 15th Avenue with his mother and later dies in her arms of heart failure.

In one way it´s a kind of disappointment to read the last pages of the book. One of the last most important events are that the narrator decides to get the baby and Olivia has an abortion. When Olivia begins misscarrying Douglas takes her to Dr. Saunders and he discovers that the foetus has been killed by using an old Indian trick. After these events every other information is very concisely written. At the same night Olivia flees to the mountainside house which the Nawab has brought for her but never sees anybody of all these persons again and disappears completely of the story . Soon Harry leaves India to return to London where he lives with his mother and a friend and some years later the Nawab as well goes to England where he lives with financial and physical problems. At the end the narrator stays in the same house like Olivia did at the end and decides to get her baby in /on an ashram.

The open ending of Olivias and the narrators stories are very disappointing because of not knowing what would happen after the both decisions of getting a baby and not getting a baby. There still many questions open like, How did Douglas react?, How did the Nawab react to the abortion?, How did Olivias and the narrators life go on?… there are many questions open and only uninteresting things like the Nawabs life where mentioned more detailed at the end. *disappointing ending*

Olivias decision to have an abortion

The decision to have an abortion might be sparks off by Harrys information about the Nawab that for the Nawab Olivia is only a tool to take revenge on the British community.  Moreover some time before Harry told her that the Nawab not always doesn`t really mean what he said but now he contradict himself and says that the Nawab always says what he really means.

Olivia is shocked and furthermore confused, doubtful, upset and pensive. Now she becomes the realistic view closer so that her old romantic illusions dissolve.

Maybe the decision should be an act of protest like an revenge for the man she loves who uses her as an instrument?!

At first, Chid is an Hindu ascetic and only wanted to live with consciousness in the spirit of the swami but Chid reacts lately that this behaviour has not such that glance it seems to have. He whirrs between his Englisch origin and his chosen destiny. Further he seems to be a little bit odd because of his different behaviour for example rapacious, hypocritical and his hostess sexually exploates to get whatever he needs. On the one hand he has traits of an English man and on the other hand he has a (silly) “touch” of an Indian. Firstly, his appearance is Indish (religious) because of his orange robe, his bald head, naked feets but and later he seems to be like an Christian boy with his khaki pants, shirt and shoes. And moreover at the end his hair grows again. Chids character changes, too. Lately, he is very still and doesn`t talk in his former strain anymore. Chid doesn`t want to talk about what had happened. Simply he only answeres that he can´t stand the Indish smell and food any longer. Chid is mentally and physiologically ill and at the end, he gives up all claim to his ” Indian” identity.