Sara Sulheri uses meat metaphorically and symbolically in her work to represent various aspects of life and death. She associates meat with relationships and familial connections, representing days without family as "meatless days." Sara also uses meat to symbolize her life in America, where she felt distant from her home in Pakistan and unable to enjoy traditional Pakistani meals with meat. Politically and religiously, she connects meat to conflicts, violence, and the bloodshed of partition. Sara portrays women as being responsible for cooking and preparing meat in the home. Overall, the document analyzes how Sara uses meat as a symbolic representation of life, death, relationships, culture and politics in her literary work.

1. Title Significance of
Meatless Days
Introduction to Pakistani Literature
Malik Umer Ajmal

2. Meat+less+Days
Days without meat

3. Introduction
Sara Sulheri
used meat
Metaphorically
and Symbolically
1-Title
Life
4-Days Not available,
shortly Available
3-Less
Chicken, Beef,
Mutton, Fish
2-Meat

4. M e a t S y m b o l i z e s
O u t l i n e
Death
Relations / LifeStyle
Life in Abroad
Religious / Political Views
Feminist

5. Death
 Human are composed up of Meat and
after their death there is no meat.
 On Death, Meat is Food for People but
for died person there’s no Meat.
 “Meat is Food for one and Deaths for
Other”
 Before Death of Mother, She Dreamed
pieces of Meat resembles like her
Mother.
 A Large Funeral game As Food is what
we burry inside our body.
Sara symbolized Meat with Death

6. R e l a t i o n s
& Life Style
1
Sara Associated Meat with Relations
Meatless means Motherless,
Fatherless, brotherless,
Sisterless
2
Situations
Meatless Means homeless,
lifeless, happyless
3
Life Style
She Argued that without meat
there is no life, Meat is Basic
Standard of One’s Life Style
Days without father, mother,
sisters, brothers, especially
Sara’s Life in America when
she was Far from These
Days without Home(Pakistan)
happiness, love,motivation
to live refered to days she
was in Pakistan

7. Meatless Days
In Abroad
Meat Is Traditional Dish
in Pakistan and Cook on
every special Event
People of Abroad Are
mostly Vegetarians so
they don’t like meat like
us
Sara Symbolized that
days she were in Abroad
are the meatless days,
because she Can’t get
enough Meat there
3
2
1

8. Religious And Political
Views
1. The month of Ramadan is with less meat
as the days pre and post of Ramadan.
2. The Eid-ul-Adha Festival is Riched with
meat but there’s blood on streets.
3. Serving meat on one’s Death Anversery.
4. Bloodshed of human during partition.
5. Cutting down the body organs.
6. Tuesday and Wednesday are Meatless
Days
Sara Symbolized Meat with her Religious and Political Views

9. Feminist
Mostly in homes, It is Duty
of females to clean and
Cook meat
Females are most
responsible for meat and
its taste.
Usually Females buy
meat , As Nuzhat went to
Buy Chicken and She was
concerned about is
Chicken is Fresh or Not
1
2
3
“Fresh Chicken is Freshly Dead Chicken”

10. C o n c l u s i o n
• Meat is basic need of Life, Sara related her whole life with Meat
as She described 9 stories and all stories she related with meat.
• She also Committed that she betrayed by food as her mother
served Kidney and Kapuras as name of Sweatbreads.
• Her Dadi is great Lover of Meat, as many people of Pakistan are
keen of meat.
• She said for gaining meat (Power) people kill each other.
• Politics and Religious Conflicts Lead to death of human Beings.
• She Compares Meat with Pakistan,
• So the days without Meat are the Meatless days.

11. Thank you
That’s All
Meatless Days