Bharati Mukherjee

rules are all ideas that culture consists. Culture is very important for each individual person.In the personal essay Two ways to belong in america by bharati mukherjee gives examples about cultural identity.Two sister from calcutta move to america to have better work opportunities. Bharati and Mira are sisters both raise in calcutta. Bharati is a us citizen while Mira was born in calcutta.Mira arrived in Detroit in 1960 to…

shows that she viewed the world outside of her native country (Calcutta) as the new opportunities to adapt to a new culture - an American culture. Bharati and Mira grew up with the indian culture where the father is who choses your husband. On the other hand Mira did not adapt to the personal culture that the majority of young american women(Mukherjee 70). For mira the ways and customs surrounding her while growing up where naturally comfortable to her, and she wanted to keep part of her…

Being a sister is one of the greatest and problematic thing that could ever happen to you. You grow up with her by your side, creating great memories and fights that could be resolved in less than 3 minutes. In the stories, “Everyday Use” and “Two Ways to Belong to America”, the reader learns about the vast difference that the sisters act, but are able to comprehend the similarities they had. For this reason, the sisters in these stories both share how different and similar they are when from…

Bharati Mukherjee’s essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” and Morgan Spurlock’s “30 Days – Outsourcing” highlight some differences and similarities between Indian and American culture by detailing the experiences of real life individuals. In terms of day to day experiences, the lives of Americans and Indians could almost not be more different. Societal, familial, and job-centric norms all vary across the two cultures. However, in the ways that all humans do, the people of both nations can be…

In Bharati Mukherjee’s personal essay called, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati describes the difference views she and her sister Mira had on immigration. Keeping in mind their similar backgrounds, Mira and Bharati turned out very different. She said that, “. . . we were almost identical in appearance and attitude . . ..” (Mukherjee 70). Consequently to their different experiences in early adulthood, the two sisters…

ten-year sojourn in Canada Mukherjee returned to her native county in 1973 and encountered an India which she had never anticipated, a world far less innocent than the one she remembered. There is an interesting episode about the genesis of Mukherjee's Wife. Mukherjee and her husband Clarke Blaise spent their sabbatical in Calcutta and worked on their joint non-fictional work titled Days and Nights in Calcutta. At that time, a professor from Columbia University asked Mukherjee, ‘What do Bengali…

Bharati Mukherjee, one of the significant novelists of Indian Diaspora has secured a worthy place for herself by her considerable contribution to Indian English Writing. The traumas and the agonies that people of Indian Diaspora face in fulfilling their dreams constitute the prime concern of Mukherjee’s literary oeuvre. She mainly focuses on her diasporic women characters, their problem like isolation, alienation, cultural clash, cross-cultural crisis and “… their struggle for identity, their…

Bharathi Mukherjee is an erudite, Indian born American writer whose literary career started as early as 1970. Calcutta born, She migrated to the US to do her M.F.A in Creative Writing, in 1963. She is presently a professor at the University of California, Berkely. She is married to Clark Blaise , an American writer. She is an ardent admirer of the writings of Malamud and V.S.Naipaul. Shashi Deshpande, Jumpha Lahiri, Anita Desai and Shoba De are some of her contemporary writers. Bharathi…

Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee. In this story, two alike sisters venture off into their own lives, creating major differences between them after a period…

Imagine walking through a park. On the right, a Hawaiian family is having a get-together. Further down, a Native American festival has just begun. At the end of the park, there is a church with people standing outside and discussing their views on God. While walking through the park, what opinions came to mind? Whatever it may be, that opinion was influenced. By what? Culture. A person’s culture greatly informs the way one views others and the world. It is through culture that we view the world,…