Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri emphasizes the divide between Western and Hindu culture through contrasting imagery of the sari and revealing clothing worn by Mrs. Sen, Mrs. Das, and Mala in the stories “Mrs. Sen’s”, “Interpreter of Maladies”, and “The Third and Final Continent”. By using contrasting imagery, Lahiri shows the cultural barriers that stem from her characters feeling the need to choose their own traditional values and beliefs or those of a new culture. Lahiri uses imagery of…

of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 2000 It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation in the year 2001 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between their roots and the "New World." Most of Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories emphasize on the lives…

communicate, following the death of their child. The author, Jhumpa Lahiri uses symbolism and foreshadowing to give the reader a better understanding of how their relationship ended. Throughout the story , a recurring symbol is the blackout. Shoba and Shukumar use the blackout to their advantage differently. Shukumar views it as a safe place to bond, and establish normalcy and intimacy…

because of what humans perceive as an influence extending from gender. In actuality gender is performative, and has no real meaning, it is an act that one puts on in an attempt to fit into society’s expectations. In the short story, Sexy, written by Jhumpa Lahiri, gender is a theme that is revisited throughout the text. Through the way Miranda presents herself, the actions of Dev, and the relationship the two share. The performance of gender within the text Sexy, is done using conventional…

isolating two worlds. Jhumpa Lahiri, author of " Trading Stories", discusses her use of books to connect her Indian and American life. Similarly, Nate Marshall, writer of "A Code Switch Memoir", observes the connection between art and the English language. Lastly, Gloria Anzaldua, writer of "How to Tame a Wild Tongue", includes her Chicano life into her teaching lessons. Jhumpa Lahiri 's passion for reading and writing helped link her Indian and American heritage. Lahiri grew up with…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Once in a Lifetime” is about a girl, named Hema, talking to a teenage boy Kaushik about what happened when he entered her life again. The story is written like a letter by older Hema from a future time to Kaushik, who is not present. We don’t know what happened to him and she is writing this letter to him. The most important part of this story is that Jhumpa Lahiri uses the first and second person perspective to tell the story which helps the reader to feel familiar with the…

In my second critical reading exercise I wrote more than my last one. I included three paragraphs and I started off my assignment with, “In Sherman Alexie’s short story, “Indian Education”, includes many concepts of the genre conventions, such as being alienated from his society and feeling left alone to solve his own problems. However, Alexie also modified some genre conventions such as conflict of generations”. This introduction is different from my last critical reading assignment because…

In this six panel comic, I will share a view of my journey as a refugee resettling in the United States of America. From being a refugee to a naturalized citizen, I experienced refugee, language barrier, blended identity, and bilingualism. All four concepts that I have learned and found similarities from the reading of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Min Nguyen, We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, and Race and Ethnicity in the United States by Richard T. Schaefer. Moreover, I will in depth…

Migration and immigration have directly or indirectly affected several generations of contemporary writers in English engendering hybridism and cultural complexity within them and urging them to grapple with multiple cultures and countries and tensions between them. The first generation Indian American Community, attempts to inscribe the Indian cultural ethos in the new immigrant country. The striking feature of the writings of the Diasporic writers like Divakaruni is that she concentrates on…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, deals with the struggle of an Indian family trying to integrate themselves in America. Indeed, the main protagonist, Gogol is an American-born Indian who is trying to “find himself ” for he is split between his Bengali heritage and and the American culture in which he lives i. He struggles to find his own identity and culture. The question of identity is dealt through names. For instance, Gogol’s name comes from the Russian author Nikolai V. Gogol. He has…