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Item THE REALM OF NATURE IN DORIS LESSING’S SHORT STORIES “THE OLD CHIEF MSHLANGA” AND “FLIGHT”(tiNai, the ecocritical initiative of OSLE India, 2013-02-12) A, DhanalakshmiNonagenarian and Nobel Laureate of 2007, Doris Lessing’s love for the landscape of Africa is evident from her works. She grew up I Zimbabwe and many of her works has Africa as its background. Sha as a child spent most of her time in the veld and is familiar with the creatures of it and that impact is seen in her fictional world. Her fertile imagination has nature in the background and her encounter with the animals is avidly portrayed in her works. The landscape she describes adds beauty to her works. The short story The Old Chief Mshlanga is a short story about the white girl who changes her misconceptions about the natives after meeting the tribal leader. The conflict between the ruler and ruled is beautifully portrayed with the background of the farm. The other story Flight tells the mind of an aging grandfather who does not want to part with his last granddaughter and is compared with soaring birds only to return home in the night. Lessing to portray the affinity of man with nature has vividly used nature and animals in her short stories.Item FATHER-SON RELATIONSHIP AS PORTRAYED IN CHAIM POTOK’S THE CHOSEN(Vergal Publication, 2016-09) S, Sanjana; A, DhanalakshmiA novelist and Rabbi, Chaim Potok was born in 1929, in the New York City.He graduated in English Literature and later received his Ph.D in philosophy from the university of Pennsylvania. He penned nearly nine novels and his first novel is The Chosen. Relationship is an important bond in life that evokes varied feelings like love, hatred, joy and anger. Among the many relationships. Father-Son relationship is an important one in man’s life. It is pure and the father wishes to make his progenies as his soul representative that he will leave in the world after his death. This paper aims to highlight the father-son relationship as portrayed in the novel The Chosen. This novel brings out the two types of fathers, one using language to communicate and the other communicating through silence. Judee K Burgoon’s Expectancy Violaitons Theory helps to analyse the aspect of silence that prevails betweent eh protagonists and his father.Item TRADITION AND PROGRESSION IN TSITSI DANGAREMBGS’S NERVOUS CONDITIONS(Vergal Publication, Vol II, 2016-09) P, Lincy; A, DhanalakshmiTradition and Progression are complementary to each other. Tradition guides the posterity to lead a life filled with moral and values. Progression creates an identity for an individual in the society. Tsitsi Dangarembga, a Rhodesian writer, graduated in Medicine and Psychology founded expression in writing novels. Her novels Nervous Conditions (1998) and its sequel The Book of Not (2006) heralded her arrival to the literary world. Her novel Nervous Conditions portrays this aspect of how eventhough following strict traditional norms, the protagonist. Tambu has progressed in her life. Victor H. Vroom’s Expectancy Theory of Motivation stands as an aid to explain the process of progression in the protagonist Tambu’s life.