Bharati Mukherjee 's Differences Between Her And Her Sister

Self-Transformation Mukherjee, B. (2014). Two ways to belong in America. In S. Cohen (Ed.), 50 essays: a portable anthology (pg. 290-293). New York, NY: Bedford St. Martin’s Press. In Bharati Mukherjee’s essay “Two Ways to Belong in America,” the author explains the differences that aroused between two sisters living in America as legal immigrants. After a sum of thirty-six years in America, Mira, Bharati’s sister, strived to return to India once she retired while Bharati accepted the American culture

all ethnic groups should stick to their roots and embrace their unique culture to create a “mosaic” society. Similar to a mosaic that uses many different colored glasses to create a beautiful piece of art, people should value and appreciate their differences from others. Instead of being submissive and following American societal norms, cultures should strive to build cultural, political, social, and economic communities that appreciate and emphasize the richness of their own individual cultures and

the multitude of many factors in which it consistently informs one 's perception of the world surrounding them as well as the individuals. For instance, in Alice Walker 's "Everyday Use," two sisters, Maggie and Dee, lived together with their mother. In the story, the mother sends Dee away ,"to send her Augusta to school. Afterwards, the mother explained that ,"she used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folk 's habits" and that Dee had "burned us with knowledge we did not necessarily

journey of immigration and the hardships immigrants undergo are common themes in Bharati Mukherjee's writings. The author, an immigrant herself, tries to show the darker side of immigration, especially for Hindu women, that is not often portrayed in other immigrant narratives. In the novel, Jasmine Mukhedee uses three types of immigrants to show how different the hardships of adhering to life in an adopted country can be. Her main immigrant characters fall mainly into three categories: the refugee, the

tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door,” declared fellow immigrant and writer Emma Lazarus in her famous sonnet, The New Colossus. Lazarus uses one of America’s mascots, the Statue of Liberty, to embody America as a beacon of lights that guide immigrants. Since the early 19th century, immigrants have looked towards America as a the mythical land

assimilation, both on physical and psychological levels. In this novel, Bharati Mukherjee novelizes the process of Americanization by tracing a young Indian woman’s experiences of trauma and achievement in her attempt to forge a new identity for herself. The story is told from the first-person point of view by the female protagonist, who undergoes multiple identity transformations in her quest for self-empowerment and happiness. Mukherjee uses the movielike techniques of flashback and cross-cutting to fuse

Amity School of Communication AMITY UNIVERSITY RAJASTHAN Effects and implications of coalition governments on the political scenario in India Abstract: Parliamentary democracies ruled by multiparty cabinets make foreign policy decisions in a fairly unique institutional context, complicated by the politics of coalition government. Recent research suggests that this context is associated with foreign policy behaviors that are quite distinct in character from foreign policy made by single party cabinets

CLAT-2011 Solved Paper ENGLISH (COMPREHENSION) The questions in this section are based on a single passage. The questions are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. Please note that for some of the questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. Passage for Questions 1 to 10 In 1954, a Bombay economist named A