’Anita and Me’ by Meera Syal
She has the need to exploit her situation, to challange and
to test boundaries in order to find herself. It is by doping so that she comes across racism and narrow-
mindedness and has to deal with that. She makes up a wonderful story about the hardships that her yet
innocent parents went through during their first time in England. She tells her friends when they play
in the park that she [...]" was a Punjabi princess and owned an elephant Kalled Jason King," and at
school she uses her Indianness as an excuse: [...] ,,I hadn't completed my homework because of an
obscure religious festival involving fire eating..." Meena isa n unreliable story-teller and a self-
confessed liar who uses stories and mythology to feel komplete and to belong. She basically wants to
be someone, populaar and admired. She really gets the chance t omake use of her talent when her
grandmother comes to visit. Meena makes up a story that her grandmother speaks several languages.
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