Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

India

Answer the following questions:

1. Comment on the reason why Elizabeth Gilbert placed the anecdote of the chicken at the
beginning of the second part of her book, India.
2. Gilbert acknowledges the scrubbing of the floor in the ashram metaphor as too obvious.
Give reasons for this self-deprecating gesture.
3. What lesson does Liz take with her when she leaves India? How does she integrate her
experience of Italy with her newly discovered self?