The Management of Love Throughout history many authors have used their own experiences and cultures in their works. “Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee incorporates her own experiences and background to make the story accurate and the character interesting. Erdrich also uses her own background in her story “Love Medicine” to show how Native Americans saw the world. Erdrich and Mukherjees writing is influenced by their social and cultural backgrounds as well as their own personal experiences in different cultures and lifestyles. Louise Erdrich uses her own heritage of being Chippewa Indian and American German in many of her works. Erdrich attended Dartmouth College. In the year that she had began the school had just opened
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She loses both her sons and her husband to the terrorist attack on Air Indian flight 182. A Canadian social worker is seeking the help of Bhave to talk to her and see how she is taking this trauma and understand how she’s dealing with it so well and use her methods to help the others. The social worker concludes that Mrs. Bhave is actually handling the situation really well. However, in Bhave’s culture, she would be viewed as handling the situation very poorly. According to her culture, she should not just ignore all the problems surrounding the deaths of her family members. She states that “By the standards of the people you call hysterical, I am behaving very oddly and very badly, Miss Templeton.” I want to say to her… I do not see myself as a role model. Bhave should be facing the issues and grief head on and deal with and acknowledge them. Ms. Templeton wants her help to make these people’s sufferings easier but in fact Bhave believes that she herself isn’t dealing with this tragedy well herself” (Mukherjee 388). Death of a loved one is hard to deal with for any person Mukherjee did not personally lose someone very close to her in a terrorist attacks, but when she moved to Canada it was almost like losing part of her heritage. Though she lived there for 14 years she did deal with some hardships such as her home burning down and her family having to move for a year. She also dealt with a lack of respect from the Canadians around her and the people who refused to acknowledge her because she was
She loses both her sons and her husband to the terrorist attack on Air Indian flight 182. A Canadian social worker is seeking the help of Bhave to talk to her and see how she is taking this trauma and understand how she’s dealing with it so well and use her methods to help the others. The social worker concludes that Mrs. Bhave is actually handling the situation really well. However, in Bhave’s culture, she would be viewed as handling the situation very poorly. According to her culture, she should not just ignore all the problems surrounding the deaths of her family members. She states that “By the standards of the people you call hysterical, I am behaving very oddly and very badly, Miss Templeton.” I want to say to her… I do not see myself as a role model. Bhave should be facing the issues and grief head on and deal with and acknowledge them. Ms. Templeton wants her help to make these people’s sufferings easier but in fact Bhave believes that she herself isn’t dealing with this tragedy well herself” (Mukherjee 388). Death of a loved one is hard to deal with for any person Mukherjee did not personally lose someone very close to her in a terrorist attacks, but when she moved to Canada it was almost like losing part of her heritage. Though she lived there for 14 years she did deal with some hardships such as her home burning down and her family having to move for a year. She also dealt with a lack of respect from the Canadians around her and the people who refused to acknowledge her because she was