Discuss Shyam Selvadurai's "Funny Boy" as Arjie's bildungsroman, coming-of-novel.

Ans. - "Funny Boy" by Shyam Selvadurai is a coming-of-age novel. Set in Sri Lanka where Selvadurai grew up, Funny Boy is constructed in the form of six poignant stories about a boy coming of age within a wealthy Tamil family in Colombo.Between the ages of seven and fourteen, he explores his sexual identity and encounters the Sinhala-Tamil tensions leading up to the 1983 riots.

   The few parts of Funny Boy - a novel in six stories - capture Arjie's childhood and the growing confusion in him regarding his sextuality.

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Few important questions from Funny Boy:
(1) In what sense is Arjie a "funny boy"?
(2) Describe the game of bride-bride and Arjie's attraction towards it.
(3) Write a short critical note on Black Tie.

Evaluate The Rivals as a Comedy of Manners.

Ans. - The Comedy of Manners which had its seed sown in Ben Jonson's Comedy of Humours flourished in full bloom at the hands of the Restoration dramatists. They exploited this particular genre of comedy to study and imitate in a vein of humour and satire, the social mannerisms, conventions and artificiality of their particular age and society through delightful observation and witty commentaries on the prevalent temper, follies and external details of the life of certain men and women who were the stereotypes of their depicted society.

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