Hell Heaven Jhumpa Lahiri Summary

The story by Jhumpa Lahiri “Hell-Heaven” is an interesting short story to read about. In this shorty story Usha is the child of immigrants who must adapt to the America way of living. This will not be an easy task for Usha to do but she believes that she can do it with no problems. As a child Usha wanted to do things that she had seen other America children doing, but her mother Boudi did not think the same way she did about that. Her mother wanted her to stay true to roots and only do things the way they would if they was back home in Bengali. As Usha been to get older she started making her own decision about what she wanted to do rather than her mom making them for her and she did not care if her mom liked it or not. In the story as you …show more content…
This is where she had her first crush on an America boy at. She also liked how the other girls in her classes were dressed and wanted to look like them. So Usha told her mother Boudi about how she wanted to fit in at school with all the other kids in her class. Her mother did not want her to , her mother thought that she was just fine they way she was. Boudi believe that the clothes she was wear was perfect for her and that she did not need any new things. It was like the more Usha mother told her no and tried to shield her off from the way that Americas was living, the more Usha wanted to break free from her mother and just do exactly what she had desired from the ever …show more content…
She stated doing things her mother asked her not to do. She was letting boys touch all over her body at parties and in the backseat of cars too. Usha was even kissing them while she let them do these things to her. Soon after, she started smoking weed and coming home high and even smelling like it. Things really did change while Usha had gone off the college she was just sleeping with her boyfriend.
For a while Usha was still doing what she wanted. Till the boy she thought was the one for her turn out to be the complete opposite, he was the type of boy that her mother was trying to warn her about all along. Ever since that day when she had her heart broke Usha and her mother has been more close to each other than before. In this story Usha had to cross boarders because of the two different cultures. She is really no different from any other kid that went through with this. All it was from the beginning was Usha was ready to move on so she could adapt to the new life style and her mother was