How does Jhumpa Lahiri use the minor action and subtle details to express the unmet needs of the characters?

In the short story interpreter of maladies Jhumpa Lahiri uses a lot of minors details to show some of the character aspects such as their personality and their needs. Some of the details that can show the reader the really bad family relationship between the "Das" family are. Mr. Das loves his camera and his pictures, in the story we can notice that he care more about them that what he actually does about his family. During the trip he keeps looking to his book of India trying to highlight good places to visit and to take some photographs, with this two small details that Lahiri uses we can notice that Mr Das is always trying to give himself happiness instead of giving his family it.
An other minor detail that give us a lot of information of the relationship between Tina and Mrs Das (her mom) is Tina´s doll; as we know Mrs. Das has short hair and the doll also does as if it was cut. Tina is always hitting her naked doll against everything as if she was expressing her feelings of lack of attention towards the doll. It could also be what she feels for her mom and what she would like to do because by the small detail as the kid cut the hair of the doll we can see that she wants the doll to look as her mother.
A quote that gives us a lot of information but its something minor because the author does not build on it is when Mr Kapasi ask himself if Mr and Mrs Das had a bad relationship as he and his wife did so with this Lahiri  shows us that Mr Kapasi does not really love his wife and he is constantly comparing his relationship with other´s family´s relationship. and after he says that the reader can feel that Mr Kapasi feels an attraction towards Mrs Das.

I think that Lahiri gives the reader a lot of knowledge of the situation with small details and in my opinion this helps the reader to understand and focus on the story with some sort of images that will pop in the readers mind .

Introduction to a short story BY: Tobias Wolff

What is the motivation to read a short story?

According to Tobias Wolff our interest on reading short stories is because we can associated it into our daily life, the events occurring to the characters on the short stories are situations that we go thru or we know that someone has experienced. As Wolff said "The experience of something read can form us no less than the experience of something lived through". So what it means is that our motivation or interest to read these stories is because the make us remember those good moments, happy moments or harsh and sad moments. In our day to day life we keep committing mistakes and sometimes is so frequently that is hard to tell that we made a mistake but when we are reading the stories that has a similar situation, we can identify the mistakes that we are committing and by knowing them try to stop doing them.

I agree with Wolff that that is a true motivation. However I think there are more. As the time has moved, the society has changed and many of the times the people prefer to read something short that they can understand rather than a big book that would probably not catch their full attention.
But I understand that for a writer the motivation is completely different. First of all, a writer can not write with confidence if she /he does not have the passion to do it. Wolff cites a quote from Jack Yeats that help us understand one of the many possible motivations to write as he says: "The social act of a solitary man" my interpretation to this quote is that writing gives any man the possibility to express their ideas, thoughts, opinions and believes in a freely way and with them inspire and help someone. The writers are people that help the society a lot, because through literature they express questions, problems, solutions, discoveries and many other aspects and if helping other people does not motivate  someone to say, or in this case write, something what would it do?

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"no news from Auschwitz"

Assigning the title "No news" to a article in a famous world wide news paper can have different reasons; first of all its a completely irony that there is an article in a news paper that its main purpose is to share news with people, its called “No news”. But this title has to do a lot with the article because the article never gives us news, it just give us opinions and information all ready known.

Also the title “No news from Auschwitz" stands for other things shown in the article, as we know Auschwitz was a extermination camp during the dark period of the holocaust. So the title can stand for the people that suffered the cruelty to be killed in this camp as if there are no news from their lifes, no news of the extermination camp and it can also stand for the people that go to Auschwitz but does not write as Rosenthal did, that does not write in honor to those who suffered in this camp. I think this title stands for many reasons and its a title that will cause the readers atention. By this article Rosenthal speaks for those who died in a gas chamber in the extermination camp "Auschwitz".

I think that this article should be in the "opinion" section because the article shows the author opinion about "Auschwitz", those that visit "Auschwitz" but dont have the "consideration" to write something in honor to those that died there after being submitted to cruelty; Besides this article would not fit in any other section in the news paper. So its an opinion article.

The bass the river and Sheila Mant BY: W. D. Wetherell

One small decision took me to a really harsh moment and i would like to highlight this is because sometimes we don't think farther than the moment and this is a huge mistake that we make, because each decision has a lot of consequence´s than we don't think about. I was young and we were on a beach were the only way to get in or out was by boat it was 530 when the first group that were the ones that would ride boat and then car left, my mum and my grandmother had a bad experience with the boats so they decided to go on that group and the wanted me to go with them but i thought " is faster by boat, ill just go with my dad, my aunt, my uncle and my cousins" so i said that i would ride the boat, this small decision led me to harsh moments in a boat for almost 5 hours without fuel in the strong sea with some huge problems as the short anchor and the huge waves that each time pushed us into the cliff, or the not service in the radio or the phones. Looking back to this moment i think we were lucky that a small boat came with fuel at almot 11:00 pm.
  This short story is about a boy that likes a older girl, but at the same time he loves fishing, he spends all of his summers in both of them the girl and the fishing.¨i had learned all of her moods¨ - ¨i didn't go anywhere that summer without my fishing rod¨. but after all his effort is made he finds out that both things together wont work when he sees that sheila (the girl) thinks that hi passion (fishing) is stupid and pointless.
This short story can be represented in live in many ways, this is because as we get  older and science we are little we have to take a lot of decisions, small and useless as ¨what candy should i get¨to important big decisions as ¨what is my career going to be¨. at this point in the story the narrator have to decide between fishing or the girl. because no matter what he would try at the end he knew that both of them will not work. This kind of situations are also applied in live, when we get to some decisions most of the times we have an "easy" and a "hard" way, As humans we tend to take or to want to take the easier way; This is why we have to be prepared and have mental strength to take a good decision. At the end of the story the narrator chooses fishing rather than Sheila and i think it was a hard but wise decision. Its hard because he really liked her and tried to impress her and observed her and spend a lot of his time in her, but was wise because his crush over her eventually will be over or if they dated it would not last much because there huge differences, instead the fishing is his passion that he can build that he can improve that he can keep, so i think that he took a good decision