Bharati Mukherjee

to you. Why is that? Culture that is introduced to a certain individual can change someone’s point of view. Culture is the behaviors and belief characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee show that people in the same culture can have different point of views due to being exposed to another culture, “What is Cultural Identity” by Elise Trumbull and Maria Pacheco talks about how some people in the same ethnic group doesn’t…

are We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo and, “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee. While each story shares the tragedies of two distinct cultures, both deal with the issues of moving from one’s home to another country with a different way of life than what they are accustomed to. To start, I want to discuss the historical context of both stories beginning with, “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee.…

Different Viewpoints on Immigration Frequent conflicts currently seen in America reflect back to the issues addressed by Bharati Mukherjee in her article “Two Ways to Belong in America”. Mukherjee describes the experience her sister, Mira Mukherjee, and she underwent when moving to America and the conflicts that occurred while living in the United States. The tension both sisters felt when moving to America are what newly immigrants face such as the transformation of life. During their…

Have you ever wondered to what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? This essay is going to explain about my culture and how people view it. What is culture? Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Culture is also defined as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. I was born in Hyderabad, India…

for a better life, and most important an American education. For both Mira and Bharati coming to the United States must have been a very difficult choice, but both made the decision to seek new educational avenues. Both Mira and Bharati, had a plan to return home to their native country once there education was complete. Bharati believed that her sisters dreams where equally the same as hers, but she was wrong (Mukherjee 404). Unfortunately, destiny had its own plans, and people change over the…

world by thinking about cultural stereotypes. In the essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, it discusses the struggles and stereotypes of Indians living in America. Mukherjee wrote, “…I was opting for fluidity, self-invention, blue jeans, and T-shirts, and renouncing 3,000 years (at least) of caste-observant, “pure culture” marriage in the Mukherjee family” (Mukherjee 89). Even though Bharati is Indian, she doesn’t always follow the classic Indian way of life. She has…

Bharati Mukherjee explores many facets of feminine consciousness and immigrant experience in her fictions. She has dealt with the ambivalence of their psychic and spatial identity and the trauma of dislocations at multiple levels. The impact of patriarchy on the Indian society varies from the one in the West and therefore Mukherjee has tried to evolve her own stream of feminism grounded in the truth of compulsory displacement that they recurrently undergo. Indian expatriate writers do not write…

Belong in America” written by Bharati Mukherjee we read about sisters who share similarities and differences. In the pairing of Maggie and Mira we see them both embrace their original cultures and find no reason to adapt to a different but in Bharati and Dee’s case, they both chose to embrace the American culture. Mira was born in Calcutta, India. She grew up wearing saris and grew up in a family where you marry a man who shares the same culture as yourself. Bharati Mukherjee writes, “My sister…

they are not ready to make such a big change, but others feel they need to branch out and try new things. In the story “Two Ways to Belong in America”, two sisters, Bharati and Mira, move from Calcutta, India to Detroit, Michigan in America. Mira does not want to change and assimilate to the American culture and become a citizen. Bharati on the other hand, wants to see what it’s like being an American and becomes a U.S. citizen. The story “Everyday Use” is about two sisters, Maggie and Dee, who…

them hard as they miss their culture, tradition, family and in short their home land, that makes them sick. In this way how Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine conveys the life across the country is the main focus of this paper. Key Words: Life, abroad, identity, nativity, immigrant Life across the country with particular reference to Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee who is a multi-faceted personality as a professor, novelist, essayist, short-story writer and travelogue was born in…