Data Analysis: Nature of intelligence in one’s personality and Reality as a dynamic force of constant amendments in The Lost Pearl by Lara Zuberi
Cognitive development is the construction of intellectual aptitude including identification, investigation, exposition, sensitivity and judgment, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Nature of intelligence mainly involves the intellectual practicalities, psychological sequences (thoughts), and eminences of intelligent entities. An individual develops a certain level of intelligence through the several cognitive developmental phases at different stages of life. The primary stage of cognitive develop starts from the earlier stage after the birth of an infant, then the individual gradually acquires and constructs a certain nature of intelligence through the cognitive development by experiencing the outer world and its realities, and attains a level of maturity. “The lost pearl” by Lara Zuberi is a novel in which the protagonist “Sana Shah” attains a certain level of maturity through the developmental phase of her personality and its nature of intelligence. …show more content…
The story of the novel discloses Sana’s life from the age of nine, when a tragic incident happens in her life which alters the whole pattern of her life. The character of Sana is an emblematic appearance of a child, who has a strong bond of attachment with her father, and then faces repercussion of its disruption through separation, dispossession, and bereavement. The sturdy bond of affection with a parental figure or sense of attachment is similarly a motivational and behavioral system that directs the child to seek proximity of guidance to cultivate a successful social and emotional development, and in particular for learning how to effectively regulate his or her feelings.
Zuberi’s character “Sana Shah” was born in Karachi where she lives with her family including her father, mother and her younger brother of four years, according to her perception, her family was a perfect happy family until that tragic incident happened to the family. Her father was in Foreign Services and her mother was a typical house-wife whose only concern was to take care of her household. The protagonist enunciates, in the opening chapter of the novel, about the substantial role of her father in her upbringing and his prominence in her existence. As she says My father was very involved in our upbringing. He had a side that was humorous and casual and another that was mature and speculative. “These are only things, my dear,” my father once said when I had accidentally broken a crystal candleholder. “Things can always be replaced. Plus, even if they are not replaced, nobody really misses them when they are gone. You must learn to love people-that’s what’s most important.” (pg 6) The character of Asad Shah, protagonist’s father, is an exemplification of a strong personality devouring intellectual wisdom and polite nature. The stirring approach of coaching and treating his broods, marks him more substantial for the protagonist and she develops a resilient bond of affection with him. As a source of intellectual wisdom for his children, he often delivers some precious pearls of wisdom to his children. Once, while describing the meaning of rich and poor, he says What makes you rich is your soul, your knowledge; it’s what’s inside a person, not what’s outside for everyone to see. (pg 7) These pearls of intellectual awareness assist Sana to develop a sensible acuity in her personality as an individual. The warmth affiliation of the protagonist with her father results as an impactful phase of her cognitive development; she feels a sense of security and dependence on her father and thinks that she cannot survive without the presence of her father in life. The smooth pattern of family’s life was disrupted by the catastrophic incident of her father’s assassination which altered the whole pattern of Sana’s life. The horrified event of her father’s assassination was only witnessed by Sana herself, it falls out as an irreparable mutilation on her mind, and she was haunted and suffered mentally all through her life. She says “February 11 came and it changed my whole life forever.”(pg 8) There comes a massive transformation in Sana’s life which distressed her whole life, the moment, when the protagonist witnessed her father’s murder, traces as a haunting scar. As Piaget believes that one's childhood plays a vibrant and dynamic
Cognitive development is the construction of intellectual aptitude including identification, investigation, exposition, sensitivity and judgment, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Nature of intelligence mainly involves the intellectual practicalities, psychological sequences (thoughts), and eminences of intelligent entities. An individual develops a certain level of intelligence through the several cognitive developmental phases at different stages of life. The primary stage of cognitive develop starts from the earlier stage after the birth of an infant, then the individual gradually acquires and constructs a certain nature of intelligence through the cognitive development by experiencing the outer world and its realities, and attains a level of maturity. “The lost pearl” by Lara Zuberi is a novel in which the protagonist “Sana Shah” attains a certain level of maturity through the developmental phase of her personality and its nature of intelligence. …show more content…
The story of the novel discloses Sana’s life from the age of nine, when a tragic incident happens in her life which alters the whole pattern of her life. The character of Sana is an emblematic appearance of a child, who has a strong bond of attachment with her father, and then faces repercussion of its disruption through separation, dispossession, and bereavement. The sturdy bond of affection with a parental figure or sense of attachment is similarly a motivational and behavioral system that directs the child to seek proximity of guidance to cultivate a successful social and emotional development, and in particular for learning how to effectively regulate his or her feelings.
Zuberi’s character “Sana Shah” was born in Karachi where she lives with her family including her father, mother and her younger brother of four years, according to her perception, her family was a perfect happy family until that tragic incident happened to the family. Her father was in Foreign Services and her mother was a typical house-wife whose only concern was to take care of her household. The protagonist enunciates, in the opening chapter of the novel, about the substantial role of her father in her upbringing and his prominence in her existence. As she says My father was very involved in our upbringing. He had a side that was humorous and casual and another that was mature and speculative. “These are only things, my dear,” my father once said when I had accidentally broken a crystal candleholder. “Things can always be replaced. Plus, even if they are not replaced, nobody really misses them when they are gone. You must learn to love people-that’s what’s most important.” (pg 6) The character of Asad Shah, protagonist’s father, is an exemplification of a strong personality devouring intellectual wisdom and polite nature. The stirring approach of coaching and treating his broods, marks him more substantial for the protagonist and she develops a resilient bond of affection with him. As a source of intellectual wisdom for his children, he often delivers some precious pearls of wisdom to his children. Once, while describing the meaning of rich and poor, he says What makes you rich is your soul, your knowledge; it’s what’s inside a person, not what’s outside for everyone to see. (pg 7) These pearls of intellectual awareness assist Sana to develop a sensible acuity in her personality as an individual. The warmth affiliation of the protagonist with her father results as an impactful phase of her cognitive development; she feels a sense of security and dependence on her father and thinks that she cannot survive without the presence of her father in life. The smooth pattern of family’s life was disrupted by the catastrophic incident of her father’s assassination which altered the whole pattern of Sana’s life. The horrified event of her father’s assassination was only witnessed by Sana herself, it falls out as an irreparable mutilation on her mind, and she was haunted and suffered mentally all through her life. She says “February 11 came and it changed my whole life forever.”(pg 8) There comes a massive transformation in Sana’s life which distressed her whole life, the moment, when the protagonist witnessed her father’s murder, traces as a haunting scar. As Piaget believes that one's childhood plays a vibrant and dynamic