Heroism in Anita Rau Badami's Novel the Hero's Walk. an Analysis of the Female Protagonists

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics), course: Seminar: Novels of the Indian Diaspora, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Remark from Proffesor: Very promising work! , abstract: [...] This paper will firstly take a closer look at certain plot patterns and will then investigate how these patterns can be applied to the novel. Afterwards, we will deal with different concepts of characters - how they can be categorised and analysed and we will then try to describe some of the female protagonists of The Heros Walk.