Heat and Dust | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Satipur - This is the city where the narrator rents a room from Inder Lal, and where Olivia and Douglas lived together in 1923.

Khatm - The Begum arranges for Olivia to visit the midwives in the back alleys of this place.

The Nawab's Palace - The place is described as rising like a jewel above a small ugly town.

X - This place is in the steep foothills of the Himalayas where Olivia lived the quarter century after she miscarried in the Satipur hospital and fled to the palace.