Heroism in Anita Rau Badami's novel 'The Hero's Walk'. An analysis of the female protagonists

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics), course: Seminar: Novels of the Indian Diaspora, language: English, abstract: [...] This paper will firstly take a closer look at certain plot patterns and will then investigate how these patterns can be applied to the novel. Afterwards, we will deal with different concepts of characters - how they can be categorised and analysed and we will then try to describe some of the female protagonists of The Hero´s Walk.