Question for today:
Is dowry fairly treated in both stories?
Our group have discussed on the matter such as, what is dowry in Indian culture before we proceeded whether we agree or not that the dowry is fairly treated. Basically, most of my group members including me, did not agree with it. this is because, in our opinion, too much money involved and needed in order to marry the daughter and if there are not enough money, there will be no wedding between two families although they have agree to marry off their children. In the story The Question of Dowry, Rukumani's family is willing to pay another 20 thousand in order to get Rukumani's marriage a success and in Everything's Arranged, Mrs. Balachandran even willing to ask his husband to sell their only land in order to get her daughter married to a doctor. This shows that not only the dowry is sometimes high, but they also a burden to some families.
In the end, our group came up with a stand that we did not agree upon this statement. This is because, in both stories, the dowry is a burden and thus, leads to the poverty and heart break if the wedding is off.
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