Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth I have been reading a short story named Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri, an author who won the Pulitzer Prize. This story is about a woman named Roma who is keen to give her younger brother the unspoiled childhood that she never had but is devastated by guilt when her brother’s heavy drinking that impends her family…

The story by Jhumpa Lahiri “Hell-Heaven” is an interesting short story to read about. In this shorty story Usha is the child of immigrants who must adapt to the America way of living. This will not be an easy task for Usha to do but she believes that she can do it with no problems. As a child Usha wanted to do things that she had seen other America children doing, but her mother Boudi did not think the same way she did about that. Her mother wanted her to stay true to roots and only do things…

Tania Amador Mr. Griffey AP Literature and Composition 7 August 2017 The Namesake A theme that the author, Jhumpa Lahiri, is communicating through text is identity the novel really revolves around the names that represent a person in the Bengali culture. The title is an choice that Lahiri automatically makes The Namesake the audiences understands the foreshadow that the book will be about names or identity before even reading the book. The author then chooses to reveal the importance of a “good…

In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, the reader follows the life of Gogol Ganguli, a boy born to Bengali immigrants, and named after the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. Throughout the book, Gogol struggles with his identity, both from nomenclatural and cultural standpoints. It isn't until the end of the book, in his thirties, that Gogol finally comes to terms with his name and culture. In many ways, Gogol's struggle with identity is psychological, and it is interesting to consider how culture and…

The Container: Critique “What’s happened? Have we stopped?” “The Container” written by Clare Bayley and directed by Tom Wright gives us the story of five immigrants who struggle to get to one destination to achieve the same thing, a better life. Produced in 2007 by Tom Wright and acted by William El-Gardi, Mercy Ojelade, Deborah Leveroy, Chris Spyrides, Edward Mostafa and Doreene Blackstock who bring the story to life by giving us a better understanding of their character role by showing us…

In the novel A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami, the narrator is constantly questioning his surroundings. Through his questions he causes the reader to contemplate the origins of names. Murakami believes that names are based firstly on the emotional attachment, fixity, and then the purpose of the object. Murakami states that to have a name an animal must be able to move on it's own, have feelings and possess senses like sight and hearing (Murakami 152). After a child is conceived the parents…

In the story Namesake, the author Jumpa Lahiri uses flashbacks and settings to help the characters remember their culture during tough times in their new life in America. Flashbacks are important to remember good times and bad. Remembering the bad times helps to know that even through bad times something good can come out of it. Moving to a new country is ruff getting used to a new lifestyle but the Ganguli family fights through the hard times and makes a new living in America. In 1961…

The first four chapters start off with the new life that Ashima is experiencing after she moved to the United States with her husband. Her first child, Gogol, was born in America. The name “Gogol”, a Russian writer’s last name, is given by Gogol’s father, Ashoke because he thinks he has a very special bond with that Russian novelist’s book. Ashima met Ashoke when she was 19 in Calcutta, and she is the most conservative member of her family. Ashima’s marriage was determined by her parents…

Ajima, also known as “The honorable potter’s wife, has always been very compassionate to Tree-ear since the beginning. She nourished Tree-ear at the midday meal along with her husband. In addition, she provided him with clothing. Ajima used to be known as, “The honorable potter’s wife”. More frequently, she is known as Ajima. On page 91 in A Single Shard, it says “The second is that from now on, you will call me Ajima”. Ajima was closed off at the beginning. She was mainly in the home, or…

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a semi-autobiography and semi post-modern post structuralism fiction. It is an elegant, however strange, mixture with metaphorical, mythic and fictional story lines. As a black author, Audre Lorde presents the story as a semi self-reflection of the inception of black lesbianism in the modern era. Although the vivid depiction of hetero-sexual and homo-sexual encounters is border-lined with exotics, this book is not intentioned to promote either promiscuity or…