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Aunty Doris
A likable, friendly Sinhalese boy who acts in The King and I with Rahda Aunty and Arjie. He starts out by shamelessly hitting on Radha, joking about pollinating flowers and offering her rides home, which annoys her to no end. But eventually she starts to enjoy Anil’s company; the problem is that both of their parents are fiercely opposed to the idea of letting their child even associate with someone outside their ethnic group. After Ammachi voices her opposition to Rahda’s apparent relationship with Anil, she actually starts to fall in love with him. Anil proposes Radha marry him instead of Rajan, but after a Sinhalese mob attacks her train from Jaffna to Colombo, Radha cannot bring herself to marry Anil and ends up marrying Rajan, as she had originally planned.
Anil Jayasinghe Quotes in Funny Boy
The Funny Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Anil Jayasinghe or refer to Anil Jayasinghe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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2. Radha Aunty
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"Because he’s an engineer and he doesn’t have insanity in his family."
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“Be careful. We Sinhalese are losing patience with you Tamils and your arrogance.”
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Radha Aunty didn’t answer for a moment. “Until a few days ago I only thought of Rajan, but now I find myself thinking of Anil as well.”
Mala Aunty sighed. “It’ll never work.”
“But other Sinhalese and Tamil people get married.”
“I know,” Mala Aunty replied, “but they have their parents’ consent.
“If two people love each other, the rest is unimportant.”
“No, it isn’t. Ultimately, you have to live in the real world. And without your family you are nothing.”
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Sometimes I wonder if it was all worth it in the end. To have made all those sacrifices. Life is a funny thing, you know. It goes on, whatever decisions you make. Ultimately you have children or don’t have children and then you grow old. Whether you married the person you loved or not seems to become less important as time passes. Sometimes I think that if I had gone to England with them maybe I would have met somebody else….” She clicked her tongue against her teeth and laughed. “Anyway, there’s no point in thinking about that—no?”
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Anil Jayasinghe Quotes in Funny Boy
The Funny Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Anil Jayasinghe or refer to Anil Jayasinghe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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2. Radha Aunty
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"Because he’s an engineer and he doesn’t have insanity in his family."
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“Be careful. We Sinhalese are losing patience with you Tamils and your arrogance.”
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Radha Aunty didn’t answer for a moment. “Until a few days ago I only thought of Rajan, but now I find myself thinking of Anil as well.”
Mala Aunty sighed. “It’ll never work.”
“But other Sinhalese and Tamil people get married.”
“I know,” Mala Aunty replied, “but they have their parents’ consent.
“If two people love each other, the rest is unimportant.”
“No, it isn’t. Ultimately, you have to live in the real world. And without your family you are nothing.”
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Sometimes I wonder if it was all worth it in the end. To have made all those sacrifices. Life is a funny thing, you know. It goes on, whatever decisions you make. Ultimately you have children or don’t have children and then you grow old. Whether you married the person you loved or not seems to become less important as time passes. Sometimes I think that if I had gone to England with them maybe I would have met somebody else….” She clicked her tongue against her teeth and laughed. “Anyway, there’s no point in thinking about that—no?”
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