In Two Ways to Belong in America‚ two sisters from Calcutta‚ Mira and Bharati migrated to the United States to work and obtain a visa. Bharati’s sister‚ Mira had a hard time adjusting to the immigration laws of the United States. Mira shares the following with her sister Bharati‚ “I feed used‚” Mira raged on the phone the other night. I feel manipulated and discarded. This is such an unfair way to treat a person who was invited
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The Benefit of English After I read “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ and “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee‚ I understand that the familiarity with the English language affect the authors a lot. All of those three writers share the same attitude that learning English can affect people’s lives. I totally agree with these three writer’s opinions that English can affect people and I think people who live
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* Tagore was born on 7 May 1861. At some time towards the end of the seventeenthcentury‚ his forefathers had migrated from their native lands to Govindpur‚ one of the three villageswhich later came to constitute Calcutta. In the course of time‚ the family came to acquire propertyand considerable business interests through the pursuit of commercial and banking activities. Theyhad particularly benefited from the growing power of the British East India Company.Rabindranath’s grandfather‚ Dwarkanath
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1. “Why Don’t We Complain” Question 2 Employing simple anecdotes‚ William F. Buckley argues in his essay “Why Don’t We Complain”‚ that as people continue to ignore rudimentary issues‚ their passivity is transferring into political indifference. Buckley begins with a simple story of how “train temperatures in the dead of the winter… climb up to 85 degrees without complaint” and how “For generations‚ Americans who were too hot‚ or too cold‚ got up and did something about it”. Although there were many
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In modern American society‚ we ask ourselves about the importance of our cultures. How does our cultural identity define us‚ if at all—and what exactly does it mean to be an American? Throughout history‚ and despite a past peppered with racial discrimination‚ America has always been an amalgamation of countless cultural identities. With this in mind‚ it can be safely said that in today’s society‚ race most definitely matters. Before the reasons of why race matters can be determined‚ we must first
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associated with migrating to a new country‚ with all its indifferences. If we are not open to change‚ we will just make it that much harder on ourselves‚ as it is tremendously beneficial to accept this new experience and completely embrace it. Bharati Mukherjee‚ a Hindu immigrant from Calcutta‚ shares her story of migration on her article American Dreamer‚ articulating that she considers the arrival to a new country a gain rather than a loss as others may presume . Adapting to this unfamiliar ethnicity
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Modernist movement in literature lays emphasis on the quest for identity on the one hand and internal rather than external realities that lie hidden and repressed on the other and prescribes psychic exploration of characters and feelings to focus the real reality in life which they undergo in different relations and situations. The great European stalwarts like Henry James‚ James Joyce‚ Virginia woolf‚ Dorothy Richardson and DH Lawrence have devoted much of their energy and technique not only to
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akin to me. It’s not just with me that some may think my siblings will be analogous to me‚ this occurs in stories‚ and literature with other people’s siblings and themselves as well. ‘Two Ways To Belong In America’‚ a personal essay written by Bharati Mukherjee‚ says: “In one family‚ from two sisters alike as peas in a pod‚ there could not be a wider divergence of immigrant experience. America spoke to me—I married it—I embraced the demotion from expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody‚ surrendering
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an encouraging example in the arena of English novels of this region very shortly. Most of the subcontinental fiction may be categorized in the group of deliberating domestic stories. R.K. Narayan’s omnibus‚ most of the novels of Raja Rao‚ Bharati Mukherjee are the well known examples of this category. Domestic realism has been the main theme of those ones excepting some of Salman Rushdie etc. Some novelists have also emerged there with feministic views. The last decade experienced a new trend -
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The concept of globalisation has delimited the distance of the world‚ and it opened the numerous paths for every human being to get suitable opportunity for his livelihood in any part of the world. The migrates make efforts to adapt the culture of their inhabiting countries‚ and also try to get habitual with the mores of there. But the inherent culture makes them close to the spirit of their native countries‚ and originates the sense of cultural conflicts. They make every possible effort for sustaining
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