Jhumpa Lahiri

Is it possible to have security without support? In Jhumpa Lahiri's final three stories, "Once in a Lifetime," "Year's End," and "Going Ashore" in Unaccustomed Earth, Hema and Kaushik go through tree different phases. Childhood, adolescence, and Adulthood and as they transition between these three stages, their support systems change with them. If one cannot find support from their own family, they can find support with someone else outside of family. Hema and Kaushik can’t find support from…

odd within their peers. They may not experience what their peers does on holidays, what they eat at home, and what language they hear the most. Their names may sound strange for local people. Jhumpa Lahiri, the writer of the novel The Namesake, is also a child of immigrants in America. In the novel, Lahiri depicts the struggle of a child of immigrants, particularly Gogol Ganguli, has throughout his life. Gogol’s perception towards his name symbolize his struggle for identifying himself…

In the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, the two stories, “A Temporary Matter” and “This Blessed House,” illustrate how the differences between two people can ruin the relationship in the long run. The first story in the collection is about a couple who lost their baby after birth. This traumatic event causes them to drift apart and to not feel the same love for each other that they once had before. The second story is about a newly married couple who, after buying…

Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Namesake - Compare and Contrast Essay Experiences and overcoming conflicts can either help one achieve self realization or hinder their view of himself. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, both Janie and Gogol Ganguli struggle to find their true identity due to a lack of support from their relationships, societal discrimination and negative experiences. Ultimately, both Janie and Gogol are able to overcome…

It is no secret that everyone is on a journey at some point in their life to find out who they are. Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake is about that journey and struggle to find your true identity with the influence of culture and society. The story starts with Ashima and Asoke Ganguli leaving India in hopes of living the American Dream, Ashima gives birth to a son named Gogol. As he gets older, Gogol would not find it so easy to balance being American and being from an Indian heritage and culture. At…

shock to Ashima but the idea of assimilating into the American culture was about as foreign as she was. Throughout her novel Lahiri paints the picture of what it was like for a Bengali foreigner to try and hold onto their culture in America. Along with trying to raise a Bengali family surrounded by ever pressing American influence. In the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, the author explores the theme seed of cultural dissonance by showcasing how each member of the Ganguli family struggles…

There is a certain amount of time a person must spend by him or herself to attain adequate self-knowledge, but even then, they are constantly changing. To know and understand your past, including the past of your ancestors is important, but it does not dictate your future. Parshaw and Gogol are unsure of their complete pasts and therefore let it determine their present. They are both consistently on the verge of knowing who they are, while never quite reaching a full understanding of themselves.…

In her fiction “Mrs. Sen’s”, Jhumpa Lahiri channels her unique experience as an Indian-American in the United States by constructing characters that reflect the juxtaposition she faced as a descendant of immigrants. She portrays the protagonist, Mrs. Sen as a cultural outsider to the American society and a cultural insider in her microcosm — the apartment she decorated to resemble India. Interestingly, Lahiri portrays another protagonist, the 11-year-old Eliot, as a cultural outsider to Mrs.…

magery in Interpreter of Maladies In Interpreter of Maladies a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri uses the literary elements of imagery in the forms of a camera and puff of white rice, to illustrate a tale the difficulty of communication can drive a family into a family and guilt-filled marriage. Mrs. Das an ill-equipped mother and a cheater are looking to pass along the suffering and blame to a different person as in the form of Mr. Kapasi, the taxi driver, While Mr. Das an ill-equipped father…

DYNAMICS OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA:A REFLECTION OF JHUMPA LAHIRI'S INTERPRETORS OF MALADIES ‘Diaspora’ is derived from the Greek…