Kaushik Unaccustomed Earth

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Everybody has problem in their life with someone. Many people will agree that relationships are hard to bond. In Unaccustomed Earth, Kaushik is having problem with making new relationship. Relationships are broken down if people don’t forget their old relationship or compare them to others, and if their expectations for someone make it hard to like them, then they won’t have a strong relationship together.
Loving someone and forgetting them is really hard. Kaushik is having problem forgetting is mom. This is causing him to not love his new step mother. In Unaccustomed Earth “a little taller than my mother” (Lahiri 260). In this quote when Kaushik first met her new step mother he was comparing her mother and new step mother. He was comparing

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