Ruma is married and her husband is an American with the two of them having a three-year-old son named Akash. In addition, they are also expecting another child, and she is very isolated. In the story, her husband’s work commitments make them shift base to Seattle, which is the cause of her isolation as she is not familiar with anyone in the city. Additionally, she has also been forced to leave out employment and look after their son before resuming her schooling. However, in spite of herself, Ruma discovers that the life she is living is the same one she had always contended was below
I was surrounded by the daily musing of an American life, but was somewhat sheltered due to the average American school system's teachings. Although my parents where devote in their faith, they encouraged me to look beyond conventional ideals. Through my youth, my family held strong to teach me that understanding those around me will allow me to gain a stronger sense of myself. They felt that traveling was essential to my growth, and as such, my childhood was filled with wondrous adventures with my family throughout the world. So that to say my culture is "American" is understating my youth.
This letter is a tradition practiced in India for a number of centuries, where the grandmother of the new born, is responsible for naming the child. When they inform the hospital of their situation they are told “your only alternative is to have the certificate read ‘Baby Boy Ganguli’”. This comment is a perfect example the types of cultural barriers and lack of understanding that arises daily and is the first of many incidents that the Ganguli’s have to face. This incident informed me of the many levels of belonging
The story unravels, beginning with Ashoke and Ashimi Ganguli, a Bengali couple living their, or rather Ashoke’s, American dream in Boston. Due to a strange set of circumstances, the couple names their first-born Gogol. Gogol goes through a cycle of accepting his name that is very similar to the cycle of accepting himself. As a child, he does not question who he is because he does not know any different. On his first day of kindergarten, he even insists on being called Gogol rather than Nikhil, his "good" name his parents chose for him.
Later, they noticed that they both could not stand with their own sphere life. April was no longer want to act as a housewife to provide a restorative home for his husband that a job was not recognized, while Frank found dull to be a salesman, a job that his father have been devoted the whole life into. They started to feel being trapped in the suburban life on Revolutionary Road. In 1950’s, a home always represents a place to escape the unwanted life in the work place. The workplace was a place of competition and the home was a place of warmth and peace.
The Namesake is a movie about two Bengali immigrants who came to America in search of opportunity. Ashok Ganguli first voluntarily migrated to the United States to obtain an education and returned to India to find a wife. Ashok met his future wife, Ashima in India when Ashima participated in the spousal selection process as men were presented to her and she was expected to charm them to prove her worth as a wife. They migrated to the United States in the 1970’s to escape the over-crowding that was a part of Indian life as well as to leave behind the stifling lack of education and opportunity that was present at that time. These Push Factors caused them to search for a better way of life, somewhere that contained more possibilities for them as well as any future children they would have.
“’It’s important to know where you came from… we don’t have a history. Our history begins the day we were adopted into a new family,’ said MacNish.” Adoptees have been effected by not being able to know who their birth parents are. There is a sort of hole in their existence without that information. They believe that without their birth records their birth parents still have a control over their lives even though they gave up that right when they put their child up for adoption. MacNish states “that it’s not about his birth mother’s privacy, but about his right to his own history.” Another argument Suzette Parmley, Inquirer Staff Writer, writes about in, “A New Push to Open Adoption Files,” is that the release of birth records is needed to find medical history of an adoptee.
A caring family, a loving environment and clear direction, as military school provides, and the ways different people deal with poverty, can easily be the factors that made Wes Moore the author pursue a positive lifestyle while his counterpart ended up in prison for life. The author moved to the Bronx with his family to live with his grandparents. He attended a private school there which he was failing. He started to act up missing school, doing petty crimes like graffiti, and started up with his sister. His mom decided that she had to send him to military school to get his act together, so with the help of his grandparents his mother was able to send him away.
Communication is first step of living in a new culture, by looking through Coffers’ mother, she fears joining the American culture, because communication is the way to create culture and she is afraid to learn it. But the satirical thing is Coffer thinks she is a real American, and not a Puerto Rican, she even feels shame to speak Spanish. It is a serious problem for new generations to realize what is right for us to changing and assimilating what is wrong for us to make a self examination. Between dual cultures there have many concepts for difference generation to comparing and learning. Coffer’s father whom decided to leave their home from Puerto Rico to United Stat for making their future better by have a well paying job
41) Carroll goes on to tell stories of similar situations-social events being tampered on by American children. In Carroll’s eyes this proved to her that Americans have no manners, but an American hearing the same story would likely believe that the father reacted like any caring parent would, and would have not taken the slightest offence to the fathers actions, or anything a child does for that matter. This is likely due to the differences in French and American social customs, and the difference in the expectation to raise your child in a certain manor. Here in America, parents raise their children as if they were a plant, watering and nourishing it each day and making sure it gets the proper amount of sunlight, hardly ever disrupting its natural growth pattern. Americans take pride in raising individuals.