| "Fall, My Mother" |
| Read the copy of "Fall, My Mother" by C.S. Lakshmi. Take notes keeping the following in mind: What happens to the narrator when she is thirteen? How does she react to this? What is significant about skin color? How is the narrator's experience seen in the eyes of her mother? How does her mother's image of her change? How does the narrator's father and sister react? |
| About the author C.S. Lakshmi also goes by the name Ambai. She was born in 1918 and was first published at the age of 18. Lakshmi writes in the Tamil language from India's south and neighboring Sri Lanka. |
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