When immigration is done immigrants face many challenges in their life. Along with these challenges many times there are circumstance in which immigrants need their family members to be with them and support them. But immigrants have to face everything alone without their family …show more content…
It is some kind of punishment to them that they are away from their loved ones and not able to do anything other than thinking that one day they will meet them again and how beautiful that day will be. They think of that day and feel so happy that they will be sitting next to each other. These immigrant family go through the memories which remind them of their family back home. These things are the way to keep them self-busy and happy by making their heart understand that if there family is not next to them so what. At least they have items which give them the memory of their family back home. To the immigrants those things which give them memory of their family back is treasure to them and they never want to lose them. “If she is feeling energetic, she ask Gogol to go and get a photo album and together they look at pictures of grandparents and his uncle and aunty and cousins,” (54). Everything in this world has its pros and cons .Similarly immigration also has its pros and cons. The cons of immigration is that the immigrant family get a chance to go to new country experience new culture and meet new people learn new thing from other people. Similarly the cons are that while being far from the home country there are many important occasions of life when they have to be there for their family, but you are not available to them because you are too far from them. All you can do is to just apologies from the …show more content…
Because in their culture, women have to respect their husband as their god. They can’t call their husband first name. And they are shy to their husband a lot. But after living many years in America. Ashima and Ashoke are changed by their surrounding in America. She never asked her husband before for their picture together but she asked for it first time when their visit back to Calcutta it shows that immigrants also change their relationship it makes more strong relation then before. “I want a picture here, just the two of us,” (85).
The kids of immigrant’s families who grow up in foreign country are confused. Because they are taught different culture in home then the culture which is outside their house. So these kids end getting confused more and more and time comes when they just follow the culture in place they are born totally forgetting parents culture. Which irritates their parents a lot but they can’t do much about it. These kids are also called ABCD (American born confused deshi) by their community. These kids get bored of their parents culture occasions and want to attend them. “ Gogol is bored by the panelists, who keep referring to something called “marginality,” as if it were some sort of medical condition”(118)