Short Story Explication: “A Father” Bharati Mukherjee’s short story‚ “A Father”‚ begins with an account of an ordinary Wednesday morning in the household of an immigrant Hindu family. Mukherjee writes this story from the third-person point-of-view with informal diction. This makes the reader feel as though they are a part of the story‚ watching and observing. This style allows the reader to feel as though they are physically present in the two-bedroom apartment in Detroit with the Bhowmick family
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your life‚ and having to handle the humiliation‚ at the end there is always a healthier opportunity‚ a brighter future; and that is what Bharati is trying to tell the readers. It is a way of demonstrating us to never lose hope. Bharati is trying to create a point that we immigrate to America because we have American dreams; trying to escape a world of war. Bharati tells us that women‚ even if they pay the amount it takes to cross them over‚ men take advantage of them because they view them as poor
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People’s decisions have been decided by their past experiences. For example‚ if you had a dog as a kid and it bit you‚ you might not get a dog for your kid. That’s why‚ to an unbelievable amount‚ culture affects your opinion and stance on things like politics and people in general. Culture can be defined as what you are‚ or like how I like to think about it‚ as your history and events you grew up in. In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker a quote expressing my idea is‚” Maggie can’t appreciate
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in the text Two Ways to Belong in America states‚ “who have lived in the United States for some 35 years…I am an American citizen and she is not. I am moved that thousands of long-term residents are finally taking the oath of citizenship (3‚ Mukherjee). Bharati was not born in America she was born in Calcutta‚ India. She then earned her citizenship in American and is now considered an America. Just because a person is not born in a certain place doesn’t mean they are not considered that. As you look
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Some people are "Permanently stranded in North America because of destiny" (51) like Mukherjee writes in her essay. I agree with Mukherjee because some immigrants live a hard life‚ and those people live with no money or a home permanently; but still‚ they want to stay in the U.S because they still have the hope to achieve the "American Dream". The American Dream
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In “Stranger in the Village” Baldwin describes the importance of race relations and how it leads to identity formation. Baldwin spends a winter in the remote village of Leurkerbad‚ Switzerland in which he finds a population that has never encountered a black man before. These villagers treat him with a dehumanized‚ exotic wonder (363) before become personally interested and attempting to integrate him into their society. Baldwin notes that these villagers are not innately unkind but in their innocence
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across this wonderful essay by Bharati Mukherjee known as “Two Ways to Belong to America”. Mukherjee is a US based writer who generally writes about problems faced by the immigrant community in the US. Interestingly enough this essay is based on incidents encircling her real life. The two sisters were almost similar in appearance but different in terms of thought process. Mira‚ was the obedient one and lived by the rules throughout her life on the other side‚ Bharati was a rebel; she married against
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An American‚ Survival of the Fittest In the 19th century on the diversely populated Galápagos Islands off the coast of South America‚ Charles Darwin studied the Galápagos finches to produce his well- known theory of natural selection. Years later‚ Darwin began to coin the phrase “survival of the fittest” as an accurate synonym to natural selection. Just as only the fittest survive in the process of Evolution‚ in human society only the fittest individuals survive and flourish‚ an idea called Social
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could also change or alter how we think of ourselves. One example of how cultures affect us is an Indian lady named Bharati Mukherjee sharing her experiences with people outside of her culture. In Bharati Mukherjee’s personal essay‚ “Two Ways to Belong in America‚” she talks about the ups and downs of the American culture from her and her sister‚ Mira’s‚ experiences. Since Bharati is more adaptive to the "American way of life‚" she really doesn’t mind the
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BHARATI MUKHERJEE Two Ways to Belong in America Born in 1940 and raised in Calcutta‚ India‚ Bharati Mukherjee immigrated to the United States in 1961 and earned an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in literature. Mukherjee is the author of several novels‚ including Tiger’s Daughter (1972) and Jasmine (1989)‚ and short story collections‚ such as The Middleman and Other Stories (1988). She teaches literature and fiction writing at the University of California‚ Berkeley. "Two Ways to Belong in America" first
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