1924 Forster, who is an author wrote a novel after his two trips to India. The text is two excerpts from A passage to India. The first excerpt is from the third chapter and is about two English women, Miss Adela Quested and Mrs Moore. The two women travels to India because Miss Adela expects to marry Mrs Moore’s son, Ronny, a British magistrate in Chandrapore. The two women hope to see the real India rather than listen to what the British says based on their colonization of India.
At a club with Cousin Kate. The windows are barred, and one electric fan revolved like a wounded bird, and another was broken. There is a billiard room.
Characterize Adela, Mrs. Moore, and Ronny
Adela: Queer, cautious, young, wants to see the real India, always says what is on her mind
Mrs Moore: elderly lady, forty years old, have not decided whether she likes dignified men
Ronny: cautious, dignified, young
A lady claims to know “the truth about Indians”. What is the truth about India according to the lady?
She says that the Indians are friendly, and she was a nurse in a Native state- an unsuitable position for any English woman, but they were still friendly and every Indian she came across socially, she would choose as a friend and not an enemy.
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