The Global Conflicts of race and National Identity
The Inheritance of Loss is a novel of economic and class differences. The novel is about the young girl love story and the global conflicts of religion, race and nationalism. Basically, Desai is a well-bred immigrant, whose rootlessness made her to argue about the immigrant’s existence difficulties in this novel. Kiran Desai drew her experience of living both in between two cultures. She defines this dual life as an imbalance that affects a person’s thoughts, feelings and ideas. Kiran Desai says:
My family had a house in Kalimpong. I was admitted in St. Joseph’s convent. We left it just as the political trouble was beginning. I could feel the strains, but I was about thirteen then and it was …show more content…
The other characters are who lived near their home are Noni, Lola, Uncle Potty and Father Booty Sai dreams of her future with her mathematics tutor Mr. Gyan who joins the Gorkha Movement and he rejects his love for the sake of his identity. They are immigrant peoples who are finding for their identity till end of the novel... Kiran moves the novel around these people who struggling for their …show more content…
And she discussed about the universal spirit, inequality among the people, global conflicts of religion, terrorism, race and national identity. Kiran Desai explores her views through the character of Biju who is the son of the cook. Biju is an illegal immigrant to America, but he has a strong desire for his motherland. Till the end of the novel, he keeps trying to get a national identity in the alien land and struggles to get Green card and the passport to return to his mother land. Kiran’s novel talks about the cultural gap between the western world and the characters’ native country. Here, Kiran talks about the illegal immigrants like Father Booty, Noni, and Lola who are all are living in India on the other hand Biju living in America.
Basically, Biju is a very innocent boy, and also he is fearless and brave boy. He easily mingles with the people in his native land and he respects the elders.
“In our village, most of the dogs bite, and some of them have teeth the size of sticks, but when Biju went by no animal would attack him”. ( IOL, 14)
- Biju’s father was proud of his son because he has that personality. Biju’s mother had passed away when he five years old. She slipped from a tree and
The Inheritance of Loss is a novel of economic and class differences. The novel is about the young girl love story and the global conflicts of religion, race and nationalism. Basically, Desai is a well-bred immigrant, whose rootlessness made her to argue about the immigrant’s existence difficulties in this novel. Kiran Desai drew her experience of living both in between two cultures. She defines this dual life as an imbalance that affects a person’s thoughts, feelings and ideas. Kiran Desai says:
My family had a house in Kalimpong. I was admitted in St. Joseph’s convent. We left it just as the political trouble was beginning. I could feel the strains, but I was about thirteen then and it was …show more content…
The other characters are who lived near their home are Noni, Lola, Uncle Potty and Father Booty Sai dreams of her future with her mathematics tutor Mr. Gyan who joins the Gorkha Movement and he rejects his love for the sake of his identity. They are immigrant peoples who are finding for their identity till end of the novel... Kiran moves the novel around these people who struggling for their …show more content…
And she discussed about the universal spirit, inequality among the people, global conflicts of religion, terrorism, race and national identity. Kiran Desai explores her views through the character of Biju who is the son of the cook. Biju is an illegal immigrant to America, but he has a strong desire for his motherland. Till the end of the novel, he keeps trying to get a national identity in the alien land and struggles to get Green card and the passport to return to his mother land. Kiran’s novel talks about the cultural gap between the western world and the characters’ native country. Here, Kiran talks about the illegal immigrants like Father Booty, Noni, and Lola who are all are living in India on the other hand Biju living in America.
Basically, Biju is a very innocent boy, and also he is fearless and brave boy. He easily mingles with the people in his native land and he respects the elders.
“In our village, most of the dogs bite, and some of them have teeth the size of sticks, but when Biju went by no animal would attack him”. ( IOL, 14)
- Biju’s father was proud of his son because he has that personality. Biju’s mother had passed away when he five years old. She slipped from a tree and