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Title: Ethnic struggle and the tension in Sri Lanka
Review: Funny Boy, a first novel by a young Sri Lankan writer, Shyham Selvadurai, is remarkble stories that takes place in Sri Lanka. It depicts a passionate commitment to peace of Sri Lankan people in the 1980's riots while they are trapped in the walls of ethnic struggle, political problems, and family tradition for a long time. Basically, the stories display that the characters have no free will because they can not get married with the different ethnicity person. Radha,a secondary character in the novel, a Tamil girl, has a strong desire to be in love with Anil, a Sinhalese boy, but they can not fly out of the rope of family tradition and ethnic struggle. At the end, her family is forced to immigrate to Canada to avoid the punishment of ethnicity difference. The novel fascinates the readers that why can people judge their happiness on the others'pain?
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