They needed him out of the way. Udayan killed the policeman and caught red handed. Being a part of a murder, Gouri felt shattered emotionally. She was never happy after that. He kept the decision before his parents who accused him of wrongly taking the place of Udayan.
Besides all the clashes he was firm in his thoughts to marry Gouri which he did out of duty to the family. From the beginning Udayan was aware of the risk what he was doing.
But he continued deceiving Gouri and his parents. Gouri first time in her life felt as an orphan. She faced the death of her both parents at the early age of sixteen but there was a relief as she was from her childhood living with her grandparents in Calcutta and Manash was there always besides her. This revelation was too a shock for Gouri. She was thinking about the baby in her womb while in plane www. The child was a version of him, in that it was both present and absent.
Both within her and remote. When Bela was four one day she had a letter arrived from Manash, which she resisted reading but still in her heart she was secretly waiting for a news from Udayan so that she could acknowledge him of Bela, the family they would have shared.
While in USA she felt free. Subhash let her feel so. He was not burden to her and she was not to him. After the party while coming home Subhash asked her if they could invite the women in their house sometime, they might be helpful in future when baby would born? She simply denied her existence as a painted doll in the corner of a hall. Gouri by her every small act started to show herself, Udayan, Subhash, and her in-laws that she was different and no more the same wife whom Udayan and Subhash married.
The only option she has before her was to kept herself engaged studying Philosophy, to solve the puzzle of time and so wholeheartedly she get involved into the study forgetting her own child Bela and duty of a mother. Also, Lahiri wanted to show about, violence, a literal violence and an emotional violence that was perpetuating between family and in relationship too. For Lahiri, The Lowland is a book about loss, love, distance, separation, loyalty and betrayal.
Gouri was framed to ignore Bela. Her loyalty towards Bela, Subhash, Udayan, in-laws supposed to be question. She betrayed Subhash, her second husband first time when she saw a man watching at her though never stopped to introduce himself.
Though there was no direct contact but that man stunned her for few days. Her constant attachment with past made her ignore Bela and in that the guilt of hiding the truth from Bela that Subhash is not her original father but a uncle or a step-father was hallucinating her more.
She day by day tried to engage with study and registered for PhD in Philosophy. This PhD work used to keep her away from her maternal duties which she intentionally wanted to. But her obsession for the work increase so vast that she had fear of losing it some or other day. Such an obsession a mother must have for a child but Lahiri here clearly indicates the replacement of Bela with a PhD thesis.
It was first time after marriage with Gouri Subhash was going back to his home. Gouri left behind in USA as she had to finish her thesis. When Bela came back to USA, to her house she found her mother not there to welcome her.
Instead, her letter was there to inform that she left them back to move to California, where she will join in a college to teach. It had enabled her to stand upright. It had cleared a path for her. It had prepared her to walk away. Bela behaviour towards Subhash from that day onwards changed.
In one part of her personality she became Gouri. Seeing Bela changed he used to blame himself for taking Bela to Tollygunge and giving Gouri a chance to escape. Author : Lawrence C. Author : James A. Methods include survey techniques, community organization, landscapes, environmental stress, paleoethnobotany, plant microfossils, zooarchaeology, human osteology, stable isotope analysis, pottery analysis, and historical evidence.
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