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    FATHER-SON RELATIONSHIP AS PORTRAYED IN CHAIM POTOK’S THE CHOSEN
    (Vergal Publication, 2016-09) S, Sanjana; A, Dhanalakshmi
    A 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.
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    TRADITION AND PROGRESSION IN TSITSI DANGAREMBGS’S NERVOUS CONDITIONS
    (Vergal Publication, Vol II, 2016-09) P, Lincy; A, Dhanalakshmi
    Tradition 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.