The central character of this story, Unaccustomed Earth is Ruma, a lawyer and a second-generation Bengali living in the USA and who is married to an American and they have a three year old child, Akash. When she is pregnant second time, she felt isolated without her mother. Ruma is not as happy with her father as she told Adam about her father’s visit to America: “It’s her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs for Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes,…etc but akash was born, her father cliamedan armchair in the living room .. And he is waiting for the time to pass.”(P6UE). Ruma needed to move to Seattle, an unfamiliar place in America, along with her husband who did everything to make Ruma
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She died of heart attack as an aesthesia triggered the anaphylactic shock during her gallstone surgery. All of her stay in America; she clings to her ex-status. She desires for the regular trips to india talking of Indian traditions and nationality, Ruma’s mother is very sincere to go through her duties as a wife and mother, and tries to extend her culture, ethics, religion and language to her children. Even in America, she seldom dresses in her bright colour saris, her dime-sized maroon bindi, and her jewels. She would like to teach Bengali, her mother tongue, to her children and even in talking to her daughter, Ruma who not only a follower of her old culture, but also adaptable to exist in a multi-cultural society by accustomed to her native habits and life-style. On having heard Ruma’s decision to marry an American, her mother feels a cultural shock and warned her daughter: “you are ashamed of yourself being Indian that is bottom line.”. Ruma’s mother witnesses a marginal character and it cannot admit her cultural values. But, it was after Ruma had a child, their relations became harmonious. Ruma’s mother, being a grand-mother, transformed herself making her daughter good at ease and she wanted to see her grandchildren
She died of heart attack as an aesthesia triggered the anaphylactic shock during her gallstone surgery. All of her stay in America; she clings to her ex-status. She desires for the regular trips to india talking of Indian traditions and nationality, Ruma’s mother is very sincere to go through her duties as a wife and mother, and tries to extend her culture, ethics, religion and language to her children. Even in America, she seldom dresses in her bright colour saris, her dime-sized maroon bindi, and her jewels. She would like to teach Bengali, her mother tongue, to her children and even in talking to her daughter, Ruma who not only a follower of her old culture, but also adaptable to exist in a multi-cultural society by accustomed to her native habits and life-style. On having heard Ruma’s decision to marry an American, her mother feels a cultural shock and warned her daughter: “you are ashamed of yourself being Indian that is bottom line.”. Ruma’s mother witnesses a marginal character and it cannot admit her cultural values. But, it was after Ruma had a child, their relations became harmonious. Ruma’s mother, being a grand-mother, transformed herself making her daughter good at ease and she wanted to see her grandchildren