Head in the Clouds...
Synopsis
This portfolio consists of a number of extracts that make up part of a story. The following is a brief synopsis.
This story follows a young, second generation British Asian woman through her struggle to make sense of the world she is living in. Having been brought up in a western society, the protagonist named Farah, finds her views and judgments of her cultural inheritance challenged, when she is forced to marry a young man from her parents’ birthplace.
The boy from India will act as the catalyst in the story for Farah’s search for her identity as a British Asian girl and as a woman in an image centred world. Farah’s reaction to marrying Nadeem, her Indian fiancé, is one of bitter disappointment, anger towards her parents, mostly towards her obnoxious, controlling Father, regret and embarrassment at marrying someone of a culture that she recognises to be inferior.
In due course, Farah realises that Nadeem isn’t the stereotyped Indian husband she expected him to be. She begins to see Nadeem as a person and not as a part of herself (or the culture she appears o represent) that she despises.
A friendship begins to form and both Nadeem and Farah become teachers for one another; Farah teaching Nadeem the intricacies of British culture and how to integrate within his new environment and Nadeem opening up a new, colourful, yet somewhat stained world (just as every world) of the culture she has tried so hard to push away.
Together, they strive to find their destinies and embrace the identities dealt to them by fate.
