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: 17 (A-) University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics) course: Seminar: Novels of the Indian Diaspora language: English 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 Hero´s Walk.