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Sena Uncle
Sena Uncle’s wife and Amma’s best friend, who goes out with her frequently both when Appa is in Sri Lanka and while he is on vacation in Europe, and who often accompanies the family to the Paradise Beach Resort that they own. She and Sena Uncle shelter Arjie’s family during the 1983 riots, and Arjie finds it particularly ironic when she shows up to the Pereras’ house (where the family is hiding out) and breaks down in tears because Arjie’s family’s house has burned down.
Chithra Aunty Quotes in Funny Boy
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6. Riot Journal: An Epilogue
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Chithra Aunty began to cry. Amma went to her and tried to comfort her. There was something ironic about that. Amma comforting Chithra Aunty. Yet I understood it. Chithra Aunty was free to cry. We couldn’t, for if we started we would never stop.
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He was trying to cheer me up, and as I listened to him talk, something occurred to me that I had never really been conscious of before—Shehan was Sinhalese and I was not. This awareness did not change my feelings for him, it was simply there, like a thin translucent screen through which I watched him.
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Chithra Aunty Quotes in Funny Boy
The Funny Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Chithra Aunty or refer to Chithra Aunty. 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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6. Riot Journal: An Epilogue
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Chithra Aunty began to cry. Amma went to her and tried to comfort her. There was something ironic about that. Amma comforting Chithra Aunty. Yet I understood it. Chithra Aunty was free to cry. We couldn’t, for if we started we would never stop.
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He was trying to cheer me up, and as I listened to him talk, something occurred to me that I had never really been conscious of before—Shehan was Sinhalese and I was not. This awareness did not change my feelings for him, it was simply there, like a thin translucent screen through which I watched him.
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