Kashmiri is quieter and has your "little village" feel to it. Everyone knows everyone in the town and there's a lake with a man who ferries people across it. I think of it as more rural, quaint, calm and quiet. When you arrive in the bigger city that Aadam lives in later, it definitley has more of a buzz to it. You still get that slight sense that everyone knows everyone's business because of the fact that the three daughters have a reputation among the people, but it's more spread out and it's the immediate people around you who know things about you. Word is spread through mouth rather than being common knowledge. I find it funny that, contrary to this vibrant and colorful image that I get whenever I hear "India", I picture this dark, dank, gray image when it comes to descriptions of settings in Aadam's life. This is partly due to the fact that he had a refuge in his basement and his wife started the whole "silent treatment" deal. I got a brighter scene image when the second wedding (Alia's) occurred. The descriptions made it seem so extravagant, the way weddings should be, as opposed to how it was when Mumtaz married originally. Her area was during the "darker" mindset, and it was very low key and wasn't a very rejoiced period of time. The mood creates the mindset for how an audience percieves setting (or at least it does for me). Aside from that, there's a different feel to this setting than in most books, which reminds me that it's set in India (somewhere I'm not as familiar with).
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