Contemporary History in "Anil’s Ghost"

Novels always have historical inaccuracy problems. It is important to understand the general meaning of the authors of historical and realistic concepts when certain historical events become part of the story (especially when these events are controversial). More importantly, when understanding that the explanation of the facts of the author has changed, understanding their position in the concept, what he is doing does not reflect the existing reality but another reality It seems not to be interpreted.

The title of the novel may be a reference to various elements of the story. Anil 's ghost can refer to Sri Lanka and her current life in the US and Anil' s struggle to unite her past; it can also refer to skeletons used by sailors, anneals and salars It symbolizes with one entity. Victims of All Wars In this reading, the destruction of innocent life annoyed Anil and drove her to confirm the bastard to kill the victim and him. Another explanation may be that it quotes the "ghost" of the atrocities of Sri Lanka. Every character in the book has a serious psychological scar by violence. Finally, archaeologist Salas may be a ghost of Anil: at the end of the novel his sacrifice lives in the memory of Anil and others; hence he lives like a ghost . In fact, Ananda refers to "the ghost of Saras" and when he and Anil carry it.

Well thought of as a Canadian writer, Ondaatje has returned to Anil's Ghost, home to Sri Lanka. From the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, during the confusion of Sri Lanka, the role of ghosts of Anil faced a daily struggle in the battlefield. During this period Sri Lanka was divided into three major war parties, two ethnic groups and civil war government. Meanwhile, an illegal and legitimate government team was sent to capture separatists and insurgents. Numerous deaths came during the Civil War, and the role of ghosts of Anil brought justice and perception to infinite victims.