Though I had not seen him for months, it was only then that I felt Mr. Pirzada’s absence. It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had missed his wife and daughters for so many months. He had no reason to return to us, and my parents predicted, correctly, that we would never see him again.
Before she got the letter that Mr. Pirzada sent to them, the narrator thought that she knew the feeling of missing a person. But it was only until then, she truly felt the feeling of "missing" someone. When Mr. Pirzada was still at her house, she did understand the fact that his family were living miles away from him, but she didn't truly understand the feeling of it since she doesn't have the experience. It showed that her personality is very caring, since even though she doesn't truly understand the feeling just yet, she already cared about the incident so much that she went to do research and have several small actions that showed the readers that she cared.
ReplyDeleteInference: This quotation shows the main topic and the theme of the story. The constant and reoccuring topic throughout the story is about missing people, like how Mr. Pirzada misses his wife and 7 daughters all the time and how he is constantly worried about them. At last, when Mr. Pirzada is really gone and back to his country, Lilia starts to miss him now. Perhaps readers can infer from his quote that the theme may be "you only realize how important and how much you like something/someone until they go missing."
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