Impact of Use of Color in Yellow Fish by Ambai

Ambai, or C. S. Lakshmi (1944) hailing from Tamil Nadu, India comes on the forefront of modern Indian writers who have made a huge mark in World Literature as a whole. Her works ar characterized by her passionate espousal of the cause of women, brainpower lucid and profound style and the touch of realism. She is one of the most primal Tamil writers today, who have been included in the recently published restrain Picador book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Choudhuri. Most of her stories are about relationships and they contain brilliant observations about contemporary carriage.Exploration of space, silence, coming to price with ones body or sexuality and the importance of communion are some of the requiring themes of her works. The story, Yellow Fish is one of her most stormily feminine works. The imagery utilise here by Ambai is excellent and encapsulating as the reader finds his/her own passion stirring as the story comes to the end. The used of tincts is very symbolic in its irony. Through the use of saturations, Ambai has move to depict the objects characteristics, adding more material to the images, like a real life image anyone from her audience has experienced.The ash grey ocean, unlike the blue greenness open stretch of space does more to depict the set of look her cashier possesses at that particular moment of time. The fact that images of the ash-grey sea and horrific colour images of the fisherwomens enclothe were inserted, ought to give the reader a premonition, of kinds, about the dark turn, the narrative is about to take a microscopic way ahead. With the unwanted, thrown and twisted away fish too, comes an upsurge of images with vivid colours, the colour discolour being associated with the pale rusting leaves, that fall, and are remaining to lie in around in the most discarded state.The narrative begins with the vivid commentary of the scene of fishing boats returning of the sea. It is high summer and the sand is heated up. Images of sea and water are predominant. There is a juxtaposition of images of vitiated blue and the ash grey sea. The bright colors of the fisherwomens clothes demonic red, blinding indigo, profound green and assaulting blue, stand vibrant against the albumin boats and the bodies of the men, darkened by the saltwater, the black hands of the fishermen and the brown of the wood and the sinlessness bellied fish.Image of the fish being unloaded is also particularly unfaltering since the good fish is splashed on the troughs, and the rest, that is the bad ones are thrown away. The sea and the water are life-giving sources for so many life-forms, barely suddenly, our wariness is drawn away from the din of the fisher-folk to a undersized yellow fish thrown away on the sand of the shore. The line catches our guardianship because Ambai makes it stand out with her expertise of speech, as if almost drawing our attention towards ourselves. The first person narrative fixes the perspecti ve and point of view of the story.The situation of colour follows as the cashier observes the varying colour schemes in the events. The colour of the fish is yellow, is significantly pointed out to us as it is put into glower as it is one of the bad fish caught by mistake and was brought home. The narrator takes her time to stoop and watches fish shuddering and gasping for breath. It is this image that wrenches the memory of a similar incident of gasping for breath by Jalaja. Like Jalajas mouth, stands only forcing us to think about the abrupt change from one period of events to another.Were taken into the imagery used by Ambai to show us the occurrences on that particular day, rather than actually narrating. The first image is that of the narrator standing outside Jalajas room constantly watching her little little girl splutter to survive. The next image is that of the ashes being brought home, in a small urn and the narrators insistence that the mouth of the urn be left ope n and the ashes to be immersed in the sea. Apparently unrelated are the thematically linked with the deep use of images and metaphors.In both cases we witness an astounding struggle to survive. Gender differences emerge in the difference in attitude of Anu and Arup Arup who fails to visit why Anu wants the lid of the urn open, and the loud sobs, hint at the intense sorrow buried in the narrators heart. She is trying to help her shaver breathe as she couldnt earlier. For Arup its just ashes, whereas for Anu, its her daughter inside, whom she wants to liberate. Jalaja, born of water, whom she wants to release into the water, the open sea.All the pent-up feelings of helplessness, frustration and ruefulness, that she could do zilch to save her daughter, resurfaces when the narrator watches the yellow fish gasping for breath and thrashing dispiritedly to go back to the sea. The arrogant leap of the fish can be metaphorically interpreted as the endless possibilities if oppurtunities are provided. It also points towards the overriding theme of self- liberation present in all of Ambais scripted works. Anu has also taken a plunge towards freedom from bondage of ideologies from grief taking her towards realization.