a. Finding for Herself a Job
To pursue her dream to achieve equality, Ammu has to find good jobs in order to prove that a woman is also able to do what a man does. Since a little girl
her father often treats her differently. As a girl, she cannot get the same opportunity in education like her brother. She has to stay at home and waits for a
proposal. After she gets married, she finds that her husband is a drunker. He has a bad drinking habit. This condition becomes the reason for her to divorce her
husband. After her divorce, she comes back to her parents’ home in Ayemenem. Her
return is unwelcomed. This condition does not make her give up. She starts to work in her mother factory – Paradise Pickles and Preserve. She works hard as
hard as her brother does. In fact, her brother never acknowledges it Roy 57. The forbidden love between Ammu and Velutha causes Ammu to find
another job and move from her parents’ home. Her family does not want her anymore in the Ayemenem house. She has already given a bad name to her
family. The only way to save her family is leaving her home. She promises to her children that she will find a job so that they can live together. If she gets good job,
she can earn enough money to rent a room for the three of them – Ammu, Estha, and Rahel – and live together.
Ammu tells her children that she has applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch father to look after them. Ammu says she has
another choice. The other choice is she might stay in India to do her planning. She plans to start a school. It is not easy for Ammu to choose between a career in
education and a UN job. She feels very lucky for having this privilege although it is very hard to choose.
Ammu is really sure that she can get another job and bring all of her children out of the Ayemenem house. She wants to provide a decent living for her children.
‘As soon as I get a job. As soon as I can go away from here and get a job,’ Ammu said
‘Don’t be silly, Estha. It’ll be soon,’ Ammu’s mouth said. ‘I’ll be a teacher. I’ll start a school. And you and Rahel will be in it.’
Roy 324. She keeps struggling to find another job and prove to the society that she is
able to give a decent living for her children. Finally, she gets a job as a receptionist in a cheap hotel. It does not last a long time. However, she has lost
her current job because she is ill and has missed too many days of work. The hotel cannot receive her. The hotel managements say that they need a healthier
receptionist and Ammu cannot fulfill it. After she loses her job as a receptionist hotel, Ammu tries to find another
job. The illness makes her weaker than before. When she is going for a job interview as a secretary, she dies. She dies in a grimy room in the Bharat Lodge in
Allepey. According to Maslow 38, Ammu tries to fulfill her esteem needs and self
actualization needs. The esteem needs are recognition, acceptance, attention, prestige and appreciation. The self actualization needs are the realization of what
Ammu wants to be. These needs are needed for Ammu to pursue the equality. Her ability to get a job makes her able to fulfill these two needs.
b. Marrying a Bengali Man
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