Since boudi wasn’t located in mainland Bengali anymore, she was safe. In America Boudi had more freedom because the vast majority of Americans are Christians and Christians don’t penalize married and unmarried individuals for being in public together. Boudi being a middle-aged woman, had the experience to see the best of both worlds. Boudi experienced strict Bengali traditions and later in her aduly years a more easy going culture, where she then lost control by getting attached to another man. However Usha never experienced the firm Bengali tradition because she was born in a country and era, where she wasn’t appointed a husband and had freedoms her mother didn’t; being around American guys, wearing American clothes, attending American universities, and sex without …show more content…
Death is coming. Death is coming, Look what you’ve done. You’ve killed us. Ghost! Dead Ghost! You’ve never was born.” (Abcarian, 2013, p.1080) No family member will want to claim Aiaa because she was pregnant by a man who wasn’t her husband and the consequences that would come to them if they continued to hide her; villages raiding the house. Unlike Aiaa, Kingston did have to worry about village raids and appointed husbands because she lived in a time period where adultery became common and was located in mainland America. She had the opportunity to date whatever guy she wanted rather they were “Chinese, Caucasian, Negro, or Japanese.” (Abcarian, 2013, p.1079). Mainland Chinese and Begali women who commits adultery have more punishable consequences than women that are from mainland America who does the