Jhumpa Lahiri

Knowledge and perception are key factors in how things are interpreted. They can be the difference between understanding and being perplexed. In the novel, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Gogol seems to go through identity issues with his name. He struggles to find meaning in his name but as the years pass, he starts to understand his namesake through being able to accept his name himself. Although Ashima and Ashoke move to America, they seem to try to raise Gogal in their Indian culture…

Jumpa Lahiri is the child of Indian immigrants who she was born in England and grew up in the USA. While she is living in the United States, she suffers of conflict of cultural in during her life. Hence, her fictions afoul with conflict of cultural and lost identity among the characters of her stories. The purpose of the paper is to study multicultural problem and searching of identity in Namesake novel and Lowland novel, and collection of short stories in Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.…

Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by Tahir Shah, is a travel narrative about Shah’s education in the art of illusion and his trek through India. Throughout the narrative, Shah meets many people and sees many things that contribute to the uniqueness of India. One of the most thought provoking concepts in the story are the supernatural characteristics given to objects that, in America, are basic parts of everyday life. An example of this is the salesman selling wedding eggs. Wedding eggs are Easter eggs…

“Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario and “Which Way Home” directed by Rebecca Cammisa both aim to illustrate struggles regarding the immigrants’ journey of their way from Central America to the United States. Although bearing similar contents, the book contains small details, whereas the film provides more visuals, allowing one to connect with the children though their emotions. However the book and film both came to the same conclusion, serving the same purpose. The book and the film both…

Losing yourself to society In the novel Bread Givers and the collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies the overarching theme of immigration is explored through assimilation, identity and Americanization. The ideas that the two texts explore are conveyed through the language and character in both stories. In Bread Givers and Interpreter of Maladies, immigration forces assimilation and Americanization upon immigrants, which alters their true identity. In the two texts, assimilation…

Love has no boundaries Jhumpa Lahiri’s book, Interpreter of Maladies, demonstrates that the short stories, “A Temporary Matter,” “Sexy,” “This Blessed House,” “The Treatment of Bibi Halder,” and “The Third and Final Continent,” show an underlying theme that when love exhibits a sign of dysfunction, love relationships quickly crumble. Ultimately, the characters in love relationships could not communicate with one another which led to their relationships almost falling apart. However, once…

tradition and familial expectation. The story of a man and his family, of his life and hopes, loves and sorrows. Covering around 30 years… the novel manages to represent, without patronizing, life within the confines of a professional expatriate enclave. Lahiri is at her best when mapping these confines, and the conflicts between individual’s pursuits and family loyalties…The namesake is a quietly moving tale that explores the somewhat fashionable themes of racial and cultural identity…in…

How would a person feel and act if they had to pick up their belongings and move to a different country as an undocumented immigrant? These are three different stories with three different main characters, that are all going through or have gone through exactly that. The three following stories: “The Trip”, a fictional story by Laila Lalami, “Exile”, a poem written by Julia Alvarez, and finally “Outlaw: my Life as an Undocumented immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas all have three main characters…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake follows the story of a rebellious Bengali boy named Gogol who struggles to find his own identity. While searching for a new identity, Gogol sacrifices his former self and conforms to the beliefs of those around him, causing him to become disconnected from his family and his Bengali roots. The choices that Gogol makes, such as his decisions to change his name, push away from his family, and disconnect himself from his culture, establish the themes of identity, family,…

Many people feel so comfortable with themselves that they are not ready to make such a big change, but others feel they need to branch out and try new things. In the story “Two Ways to Belong in America”, two sisters, Bharati and Mira, move from Calcutta, India to Detroit, Michigan in America. Mira does not want to change and assimilate to the American culture and become a citizen. Bharati on the other hand, wants to see what it’s like being an American and becomes a U.S. citizen. The story…