The short story‚ "Mrs. Sen ’s"‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ tells the experiences of Mrs. Sen‚ an Indian Bengali housewife‚ who has unhappily immigrated from Calcutta‚ India to the United states‚ due to her husbands profession. She is married to Mr. Sen‚ who spends the majority of his time at his work place as a mathematics professor at an American University. As a result‚ Mrs. Sen decides to become a babysitter for an 11-year-old- boy‚ named Eliot‚ as a way to fill up her lonely afternoons while her husband
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A Temporary Matter Thesis File Hassam Mairaj A Temporary Matter Introduction "A Temporary Matter" was originally published in the New Yorker in April 1998 and is the first story in Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut collection‚ Interpreter of Maladies (1999). The collection won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction‚ a rare achievement for a short-story collection. The story takes place over five days‚ beginning March 19‚ at the suburban Boston home of a married couple‚ Nadia and Ali. During this week‚ when
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the writings of Salman Rushdie‚ Agha Shahid Ali‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ V.S. Naipaul‚ Bharati Mukherjee‚ Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Kiran Desai and many others.(Dutta‚online) The present paper will highlight the issue of identity crisis: forming‚ deforming and reforming in the light of The Namesake by Jumpha lahiri. Having born of educated middle class Bengali parents in London and grown up in Rhodes Island (USA) Jhumpa Lahiri beautifully and authentically portrays the diaspora experiences in her first collection of short
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Comment closely on ways in which the following passage presents Gogols feelings about his homecoming Jhumpa Lahiri eloquently presents in her novel‚ ‘The Namesake’‚ all the different feelings Gogol Ganguli experiences on his train ride back home. One of which is the main feeling of loss which is apparent throughout this novel as well as in this passage. He has lost his father‚ Maushumi and he is about to lose his house‚ which is sentimental to him because it is the one place that him and his family
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The seven continents are Asia‚ Australia‚ Africa‚ Antarctica‚ North America‚ South America and Europe. It is seen that each continent has a special shape. Some of these continents are connected while the water separates others. ASIA Asia being the largest of the continents covers around one-third of the world’s total land area. Asia is known for its vast size and incomparable character. It stretches all the way east from Japan to the Southeast Arabian Peninsula‚ which is more than 8500 kilometers
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The Myth of Continents‚ or How our Grade-School Teachers Distorted the Truth How many continents are there? It seems like a simple enough question‚ and most of us who grew up in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century come prepared with a pat answer to which we give little thought: “There are seven continents: North America‚ South America‚ Europe‚ Asia‚ Africa‚ Australia‚ and Antarctica. Next question‚ please.” The official flag of the Olympic games‚ however‚ displays
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‘Interpreter of Maladies’ explores how one culture adapts to living with another.’ Discuss. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection ‘Interpreter of Maladies’‚ the writer silhouetted the adaption of one culture to live within another in the form of allowing differences to exist and reaching a compromise. Lahiri drew the readers into the witness of different people battling with the obstacles they encounter. While some people like Mrs Sens‚ fell to the abysm of culture-displacement because of
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“This Blessed House” by Jhumpa Lahiri is a short story that follows a small period of time in the two characters’ lives. Having known one another for only four months‚ newlyweds Sanjeev and Tanima‚ called Twinkle‚ are finding it difficult to adjust to married life. Both have very different personalities‚ a theme that Lahiri continuously points to throughout the story‚. Their conflict comes to a head when Twinkle begins finding Christian relics all over the house. Sanjeev wants to throw the relics
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Aguiar‚ Arun. “Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri.” PIF 1Aug. 1999: n.pag. Web. 17Sept. 2011. Bala‚ Suman‚ ed. Jhumpa Lahiri: The Master Storyteller. New Delhi: Khosla Publishing House‚ 2002. Print. “Diaspora.” Oxford Dictionary Online. 2011. n.pag. Web. 17 Oct. 2011. Grossman‚ Lev. “Jhumpa Lahiri: The Quest Laureate.” Time Magazine 08 May 2011: n. pag. Web. 13 Aug. 2011. Kadam‚ Mansing G. “The Namesake: A Mosaic of Marginality‚ Alienation‚ and Nostalgia and Beyond.” Jhumpa Lahiri: Critical Prespective. Ed
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s book of short stories‚ Interpreter of Maladies‚ reflects a realism that is seldom read in fiction. The characters are neither boring nor extraordinary‚ but they do face situations and dilemmas that are indicative of real life. Though the stories are all unrelated‚ they do share similar themes. These reoccurring motifs are religion‚ New-world v .Old-world tradition‚ gender roles‚ and secrecy. These themes become vital in the development of each and every character in the work. In
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