Manto's Mottled Dawn
Click the title or the image to the left to learn more about the historical context of Manto's stories. Manto lived through and wrote about the Partition of India and Pakistan. Whilst this historical context is important, it's also important to remember that we're conducting literary analysis of Manto's work, not a conducting a soci-historical commentary of the time in which the text was written.
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Don't Fall Into This Trap
Read the paragraph to the right. Can you find the mistake that the student makes? They deviate from the text to share their ideas and knowledge of the historical context of the text. Remember, we're conducting literary analysis, not historical analysis.
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