Balance
“And yet I am strangely pulled to that day twelve years ago, a day of my beginning, when perhaps our spirits crossed in midair, his rising to heaven, mine descending to earth” (18).
In the novel Sister of My Heart, the author Chitra Divakaruni displays the duality of life and death and the idea of balance. The tone of the sentence is one of reluctant interest and reflection. The diction of the sentence is euphonious and polysyllabic, creating a lilting effect and representing the continuation of a deep thought. When Divakaruni uses the parallelism of new life descending and ended life rising, it implies a balance between the two. How Sudha uses “perhaps” implies her uncertainty at the whole situation. Her uncertainty even extends to