Queerly Canadian Fiction Book Reviews Example

The book exquisitely written is as very uniquely diligent manner. At first glance, the very blameless portrait that is witnessed id of the family of Tamil living in a country called Srilanka. The book transformed into an articulate, very lovely and authoritative piece of writing. The world of Selvandurui is depicted as being so delightful, a little scary, and crucial and also describes with very touching clearness to point. This novel is too graceful and very intellectual in its account of the random scenario of growing up “observer” a reticent masterpiece.
The backup of this novel is dating back to the 80s in Srilanka. This was a time when the crashes that existed among the population of the Singhalese and that of the minority people in the country called the Tamilians had started to widen. This external rift can be witnessed in Arjuna, an innocent 12-year-old lad. This child’s desire for a natural expression is hampered by the oppressive air of stereotype and rigidity that the adult portrayed. This novel is separated into six chapters. The first few sections of this book just capture this boy’s childhood and the confusion he went through as he grow to manhood. This boy is depicted as not wanting to associate with other boys of his age. He, however, finds it comfortable associating with girls (Selvadurai 1996).
However, when the family members recognize this boy's queer behavior, the things start changing all of a sudden in a dramatic way for this boy. His father stated it categorically clear to he does not want a “funny” child in his family, and he does prepare him to go for a boarding all boys public school.Th e father had a belief that the strict rules and ways that will be imposed on this boy at school will just force him to become a responsible man and cease behaving like a small kid.
However, the sexual orientation and realization of this boy seems to have been awakened at this point. It is believed that that the brutal treatment at the school that he was taken to was partially responsible for this phenomenon. The relationship between this boy and a fellow student called Shehan Zoysa; a Sinhalese is one of the most touching episodes and the parts in this novel. Initially, he is hesitant about accepting his newly discovered sexual orientation and decides to shun Shehan’s advances. However, when he later realizes that being bullied and heavily punished by the school principle, his love for Shehan Zoysa seems to be gushing through.
Heteronormativity.as soon as they had settled in Colombo, Thanuja joined the girls when they were playing their games. Thanuja then accepted the role of the bridegroom in the game these girls were playing. One day when all the family had gathered to have lunch on Ammachchi’s birthday. His mother was supposed to wear a sari was the custom. Arjuna seems to be enjoying seeing the mother dressing up (Selvadurai 1996).
Here it appears this boy is just being led by his feelings of Libido. Auntie Kathy seems to be a very cynical lady. Being carried away by the lies of Thanuja, she starts questioning Arjuna, who was also the leader of the girl’s games at school. She was trying to inquire why her daughter was not taking part in the games. At this point, the boy runs away from her as the grandmother was attempting to kiss him.
At this point, Auntie Kathy just capitalizes on the sympathy the other members hold for her for having a very tough time at the time she was living abroad. Meanwhile, Thanuja attempts to attract the other girls’ favor because of the exotic foreign dolls she was carrying. However, she did not manage to prevent the others from their involvement in the bride. All the other girls laughed at Thanuja when she was dressed as the bridegroom.
In her role as the groom, she seems to violate the rules and the conditions of the game by assuming a dictatorial mood. When the other members tried to get her quiet, she just demands to be giving the role of the bride. He thus challenges Arjuna’s enactment of the bride role being a boy. Failing to get a win over the girls on that subject, she starts calling Arjuna name like Sissy, faggot, pansy. The other girls also follow by calling her in chorus. They start singing and mocking her that you go away your fatty boom. This makes her break away in tears and thus runs leaving her mother’s clothes behind (Selvadurai 1996).
Arjuna now starts drawing imaginations that every meeting that occurs between a man and woman is supposed to culminate in marriage. The rehearsals take place at the convent of St Theresa and untie Rodha together with Arjuna go there together to witness. Then untie Doris, who was also the director of the play calls on them, and she makes some remarks on Arjuna with such tender features should be for a girl.
Thus being stripped to its most fundamental form, this novel just documents the journey of Arjie to his sexual orientation and identity. Thus, his sexuality while being a topic of discussion for his family is not confronted directly by the parents but it is rather referred to as funny instead. This boy although recognizes and understands that this term carries a negative connotation barely knows its complexity. He thus states that it would be clear to him if he had done something outrageous or wrong. Thus thought out the entire script of the novel, Arjie seems to be getting increasingly aware of his sexual orientation and the general feelings he seems to be developing for boys in his school. He appears to be admiring the shorts they wear and just longs to be with them.
However, he appears to be only grasping his sexual identity and the familial implications arising out of a sexual happenstance with his male classmates. This is when he understands the concerns of his father and the reason as to why he always sounded worried in his voice whenever they could talk. He realizes that the father was trying to protect him from what he thought was unusual about him, but he just failed. The queer sexuality of this young man just sits at the apex of the ethnic and civil conflict (Selvadurai 1996).
The book showed a number of instances where Arjie showed his heterosexual behavior and from the story there is a possibility that it was his nature to be heterosexual. It astonishes me that the heterosexual behaviors are real and most people have the features that may lead to heterosexual conditions. Although Arjie was heterosexual, one time he believed that whenever a man was close to a woman it would automatically result in marriage. He gained the experience from the Auntie but did not understand how the marriage faculty worked. Many people believe that most things that happen in the contemporary society happen for a reason. The gay behavior by Arjie was one of the things that arise many questions among scholars and other socialists who are keen in studying human behavior (Fonseca 2015).
In conclusion, in the section where Arjie and the auntie visited church, he made with is elder auntie who recommended him to be a girl. I fail to understand why his auntie could give such a comment other than discouraging him from taking the perspective of a girl. It is possible that the auntie contributed greatly to the decisions made by Arjie to become gay. The main theme discussed in the book is the queer sexuality in the society and the factors that contribute to such behaviors. The writer was prudent enough to prove the point of heterosexuality and highlight some of the causes that lead to heterosexuality.

References

Fonseca G. (2015) A Chapter-by-Chapter Critical Summary of Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai.
Selvadurai S. (1996) Funny Boy: A Novel. William Morrow & Co. Publishers.