Jhumpa Lahiri

It seems as if culture influences the way humans learn and live. These practices are important to one’s being because it is the shaper of our own personality, as well as how we behave and think. In the novel The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, Lahiri efficiently describes the difficulties that immigrants have relating their culture, with the distinct American culture

element in most stories” (Bess 167). Lahiri unravels the tension within each of these marriages, and provides insights into struggles that arise from the union of two characters whose worlds are often so different. “The signs he recognized from his own marriage were there- the bickering, the indifference,

Making changes for the sole purpose to improve is most commonly known as reinvention. Reinventing can happen in numerous different ways. Gogol in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, experiences a demoralizing childhood with finding success in reinventing himself by changing his name. By giving himself a new sense of self-confidence Lahiri demonstrates that reinventing oneself can be immensely simple. Gogol who has a demoralizing childhood, finds success in reinventing himself by changing his name,

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘The Namesake’ is a novel that explores the concepts of cultural identity, of rootlessness, of tradition and familial expectation as well as the way that names subtly and not so subtly alter our perceptions of ourselves but it’s very much to its credit that it never succumbs to the clichés those themes so often Encounters of Lahiri as a developing offspring of worker folks in America are decently communicated through the character of Gogol in The Name purpose. As a kid she is

Anyone who has ever felt alone, separated from the people around them, or like an outcast in any way will know how hard it can be to find your place in the world, especially if you have just moved to a new place. Jhumpa lahiri explores the struggle of fitting in as an immigrant from India to America in her short story compilation, The Interpreter of Maladies. Many of her characters experience the same struggles of dealing with cultural differences, differences of perspective, and unwillingness to

Fifty Shades of Sexy Rite of passage is defined as a ritual event that marks a person’s transition from one status to another. In the story Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, the main protagonist is Miranda who is in search of a home. Miranda lives in a big city where her ethnicity is the majority, but she finds solace in an Indian race. Miranda will soon learn love doesn’t constitute acceptance, or self-worth. The word sexy is the catalyst of the story and without the expression of the definition, Miranda

she doesn’t bring up the issue or try to inform them about it. This is because Lilia didn’t try to history of her motherland until she met Mr. Pirzada, thus she knows Dora won’t be interested or can relate to the issue as Dora is an American. Jhumpa Lahiri critiques both modern contemporary Americans and immigrants for their ignorant, privileged life by getting the readers to view the world through the eyes of first generation Indian-American, Lilia. Halloween is one of the most celebrated and the

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Jhumpa Lahiri in The Namesake illustrates the assimilation of Gogol as a second generation American immigrant, where Gogol faces the assimilation of becoming an American. Throughout the novel, Gogol has been struggling with his name. From kindergarten to college, Gogol has questioned the reason why he was called Nikhil when he was a child, to the reason why he was called Gogol when he was in college. Having a Russian name, Gogol often encounters questions from people

In “The Namesake”, Jhumpa Lahiri illustrates several factors contributing to an individual’s life such as the struggle faced by settling immigrant families and their growing second-generation children. Lahiri develops the fundamental idea that the absence of strong roots heavily affects an individual’s identity. This is clearly depicted through Gogol and the conflict he faces with his identity, the central theme and its deeper meaning and the symbolism and the irony used throughout the book. Firstly

Jhumpa Lahiri, an expatriate Indian, although generation expatriate and yet her first novel The Namesake is about a Bengali family Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli and their family. The novel portrays realistically experiences of this family, which is sometimes distressed with a feeling of cultural alienation, rootlessness and dislocation experienced by every expatriate at some stage or other. Even though she belonged to the second generation still she understood the concept of diaspora by choice and therefore