Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,7, University of Bamberg (Department for English Literature), course: Writing India and the Indian Diaspora in the 21st Century, language: English, abstract: This essay examines Nazneen's transformation in the course of Monica Ali's Brick Lane. It analyses how Nazneen changes into an independent woman by overcoming her belief that fate determines her life and focuses on how the people around her contribute to her transformation of character. First I will select characteristics of the female Bildungsroman...