End Term Exam

[Narendra Kumar]

Dear All,

This mail is in response to Akhil's query. There will not be any questions from the seminar presentations. The questions will be asked from the three texts and corresponding movies, i.e., The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, A Beautiful Mind and The Namesake.

I don't think you need any practice questions. If you have already gone through the movies and books then just go through the lecture slides and the other reference material (interviews of the authors, a documentary on John Nash and Sylvia Nasar's MIT lecture). In the exam do structure you answers properly, prior to writing them and once you have finished writing do go through your answer scripts once again to insure that there are no grammatical mistakes, you have not misspelled words and you have cut all the T's and dotted all the I's.

Some of the areas that you can focus on may be:

1. The representation of the Holocaust in both the book and the movie (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)
2.  The narrative strategies of the texts and the movies wherever applicable
3. The politics of the name and the issues related to diaspora in The Namesake
4. Representation of the Bengali culture in The Namesake
5. The different stages of John Nash's life in A Beautiful Mind
6. The differences between the texts and the movies
7. Different aspects of adaptation

These may be the broad areas around which you can structure your preparation for the exam. The question paper will contain three types of questions - MCQ, short answer type and long answer type.

Best Wishes and Good Luck,

Narendra
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Narendra Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
LNM IIT, Jaipur (Deemed University)