Geethari Thick Description

Geeta Kothari uses thick description to help show how her way of life was always questioned by herself. She was unsure if she should continue to follow follow her Indian heritage or embrace American culture and food as she was very confused by some of the foods the people in America were consuming especially meat. She goes so far into detail in her narrative that you can picture so many very vivid images that took place during Geeta’s life. This story is an analogy between her life and the food she consumes as she is not confident on what she really wants in both things. She uses description from the very beginning when she compares the tuna salad of her friends to the tuna her mother bought. Her classmates tuna does not smell fishy and she thought theirs was pleasant while she describes the tuna her mother buys as “pink and shiny, like an internal organ”. (Kathari 6) Describing it like this gives a picture that makes it seem like regular tuna is not fit at all for human consumption. While in American culture many people do eat that canned tuna. This is also the first time in the story where she is let down …show more content…
A great example of this is when she describes the conditions in India “In the hot, sticky monsoon months in New Delhi and Bombay, we cannot eat ice cream, salad, cold food, or any fruit that can't be peeled.”(Kathari 8) This gives people an image of how tough it would be to live in India and the extra precautions they have to take as they do not eat any refrigerated foods during these months. You can imagine the heat and humidity the people go through their as her description is so great. This tone eventually changes throughout the story as she begins to long for the cooking of her homeland which could be showing that she has a real connection to the place of her ancestors despite wanting to not be different than everyone