Analysis Of The Shining Mountain

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Analysis of “The Shining Mountain” Analysis of the two main characters in the modern fairy tell “The Shining Mountain”. The daughter Pangma-la was named after The Shining Mountain, so she could stand tall and proud. She was a Scottish girl with a strange name page 50 line 1 therefore she was teased a lot in school. Pangma-la’s father was a famous mountaineer who was always on television (page 50 line16) and it was the father that has given her the strange name. The father said to her that one day they would climb the mountain ”Pangma-La” together. page 50 line15 Pangma-la’s father had many expectations of Pangma-La. He decided what Pangmla-La had to do and what not to do. Such as: page 51, line 23-24 “And he made Pangma-La promise that she would speak to no one, no matter what they asked or what help they offered” Pangma-la had also promised never to disappoint him page 50, line 20 so she tried to fulfill all of his expiations, but there were too many. When they where climbing the mountain, the going for Pangma-La was too hard, but she was willing to lie and give her heavy rucksack to a Sherpa woman on no matter the cost, just so the father would not get disappointed. Page 51 line 26-31 It is as though Pangma-la lived for her father, and she did not have dreams of her own, because she was so fixated about what her father wanted her to do that she acted like a totally different person. Pangma-la just did what her father required, and she did not have any influence on her father’s expectations at all. You get the feeling that the father wanted Pangma-la to be a mountaineer just like himself, and that it was Pangma-la’s destiny to be a mountaineer after she has been given that name, without the father taking into account of Pangma-la’s own dreams and aspirations. The father did not understand his daughter very well. He did not know how much
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