What Is Interpreter Of Maladies By Jhumpa Lahiri Communication Barriers

Throughout the story “In the silence” by Peggy S. Curry the protagonist; Jimmy is on a rollercoaster of emotions. At the beginning of the story, Jimmy is depressed and homesick because of his interactions with Angus Duncan. Although as he would finger is brooch he would remember home, this made him happier. When Angus sent Jimmy into “the silence” he was scared, scared of all the dangers around him. After a few nights “in the silence” he had already lost two of his sheep, one was killed when trampled by a horse, and another was dropped and killed by a sheep, he was worried about what Angus’ reaction would be along with the sheep’s safety in jeopardy. In the middle of the night, when a mysterious man confronted him he felt a sudden sense of

“Those were not welcome days. We buried sons, brothers, mothers, fathers, fiancés…What once was whole, now was shattered” (McGinty, 2006). We Are Marshall is a film based on the true story of a deadly plane crash in 1970 that killed seventy-five football players, coaches, and fans of Marshall University (McGinty, 2006). Furthermore, the story follows how a new coach is able to rebuild a football team, as well as a community stricken with grief. The characters in this movie exhibit various interpersonal communication concepts, such as self-concept, convergence, divergence, debilitative, and facilitative emotions, and portray these concepts through their thoughts and actions.

Arnold Spirit Junior is hyper-conscious of his position inside any social group. Consequently, he is aware of what it means to be Indian versus what it means to be White, he worries about what it means to be a man (when it is acceptable for men to cry, or when boys have to stop holding hands with their friends) and how to fit in as a “freak”(p.98) who is bullied by his peers and even by some adults. A big part of Junior’s coming of age is trying to figure out the extent to which people are defined by their birth or their origins, as opposed to their individual choices. At the beginning of his story Junior states, “I was born with water on the brain” (p.1) (a reference to his own disability of hydrocephalus) and identifying his tough, irrational,

In the poem “Spirit in Me” by Esther G. Belin,and the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie both characters share similar life experiences such as effects from alcoholism that affect their lives negatively. Everyone in life has a goal they need to reach and to reach your goal you might have to go through emotional times and so did Junior from the book and the speaker from the poem.

In Brent Staples “Black Men and Public Space” a firsthand insight is offered about life as an average educated black man, and the common misconception that he is dangerous. Staples realizes his power to alter public space and subsequently adjusts his behavior to strengthen self-presentation, relieve anticipated tension and stay safe; in the face situations reflecting societal expectations and discrimination based on physical appearance. Though he rationalizes that attempts to ease tension is for the benefit for others and his own physical safety, with each one on one interaction experienced, it becomes evident through progressively desperate behavior that he is attempting to soothe the emotional tension he feels within.

Malala Yousafzai is a girl from Pakistan who lived in the Swat valley when her troubles began. Malala is praised internationally for her use of peaceful protest to spread her message of educational equality for women and the crudeness of the Taliban. She does so using rhetorical strategies throughout her novel; ‘I am Malala.’ The rhetoric Malala uses really makes her story seem more relatable and appeals emotionally to the readers. It is the story of a young girl growing up in a country where men were more important and superior than women, which led them to control everything these women did. These men were Islamic and they wanted women’s rights to go to school to be taken away, so they made it their mission to burn down schools and kill men and women alike who went against their interpretation of Islamic law. Malala only a teenager at the time helped foster change in her in her country for women’s rights.

In most modern day literature, authors tend to use figurative language to make the readers visualize the text in many ways. This is eminent in the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. In the novel, the author uses figurative language to help the reader visualize events, describe characters, and to describe the narrator’s feelings.

Malala Yousafzai has become a brilliant world leader and advocate for women’s education. She has also become the voice for all the voiceless girls in the Middle East. In her book, I am Malala, Yousafzai enlightens the Western Hemisphere on what life is genuinely like for young girls in the Middle East. Malala utilizes numerous rhetorical strategies to convey her message to her audience. Yousafzai’s sophisticated utilization of ethos, pathos, and juxtaposition elucidated the audience to not think ethnocentrically and educate themselves on other countries.

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author Khaled Hosseini emphasizes the importance of education in woman. With the importance of education in women comes the endurance of woman. Hosseini displays the endurance of hardships that women face in Afghanistan through his female characters in the novel.

Overcoming a challenge, not giving up, and not being afraid of change are a few themes demonstrated in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Perhaps the most prominent theme derived from the novel is defying the odds, or in other words rising above the expectations of others. Junior Spirit exemplifies this theme throughout the entirety of the book. As Junior is an Indian, he almost expects that he will never leave the reservation, become an alcoholic, and live in poverty like the other Indians on the reservation—only if he sits around and does not endeavor to change his fate. When Junior shares the backstory of his parents, he says that his mother and father came from “poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people” (11). He knows that if his parents were not born into poverty, his mother would have gone to college, and his father would have become a musician. Additionally, on page eleven Junior says that his parents “dreamed about being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams.” Junior believes that he is trapped in this “circle” of poverty, and his dreams will be ignored just as his parents’ dreams had been. However, after Junior launches an old geometry book across a classroom, and it hits his teacher, Mr. P, in the face, Mr. P realizes something substantial about Junior: He has fought since his birth, beginning with the

The execution of contributing factors such as distorted communication, degrading unexpressed feelings, and deceitful misconception conveys how it can have drastic affects, not only on the characters themselves, but others around them in a negative way that can alter the bond or relationships such as the story “Interpreter Maladies” through the Das family and Mr.Kapasi. In this story Lahiri tries to illustrate the importance of relationships and these factors can make or break them and lead on to adverse problems like the lack of communication between Mr. Kapasi and his wife, or the lack of enjoyment in Mrs. Das marriage which led her to adultery. A Lahiri makes the claim that a relationship is only as strong as the effort that is put into them, if it fails, it can lead to an alarming amount of backlash that one cannot predict.

Black Mirror is a presently airing television show that uses many devices as well as heavy social satire (especially in episode one of season three, “Nosedive”) to bring attention to the fact that heavy reliance on social media and technology could backfire immensely on humanity. In this particular episode of the series, a fictional dystopian society is presented, where every person rates one another from one to five on a social media app. This app is based off of a real world app called “Peeple,” where people can rate each other on social interaction. The main character presented is a strawberry haired woman named Lacie, who struggles to up her social-economic ranking by giving a speech at an old, high ranking friends wedding. This episode contains so many lessons that need to be heard by the people in today’s society; those who obsess over a screens opinion need to look within them self to find that everyone is

In the novel, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, nine distinct stories are told that depict families or people of Indian descent who experience different situations and circumstances that affect their lives. Many themes arise throughout the stories, but one that is prevalent through two specific stories, Mrs.Sen’s and Interpreter of Maladies, is the idea of cultural assimilation. Mrs.Sen’s and Interpreter of Maladies both portray the idea of cultural assimilation, but in different ways. Mrs.Sen’s is an example of a woman who resisted cultural assimilation in order to preserve her Indian heritage, while Interpreter of Maladies is a story that depicts a family who have fallen victim to cultural assimilation, thus losing a sense of connection to their Indian roots and being conformed into American culture. Lahiri uses the recurring motif of physical objects and actions to illustrate the various effects cultural assimilation has on certain people. Ultimately, Lahiri suggests the idea that American culture plays an influential role in shaping one’s physical and cultural beliefs, but it is possible to avoid being assimilated through self-determination and resistance.

The story begins at a tea shop where they have stops by to have some

Post colonial Literature is a body of literary writings that reacts to the conversation of colonization. Post colonial literature often involves writings that deal with issues of decolonization or the political and cultural independents of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, part of the third generation narration is concerned with the identity of the modern African woman in the 21st century. Chimamanda Adichie is one of the prominent contemporary Nigerian women writers. She is dynamic and writes from a feminist perspective. Her novel usually deals with the social, cultural, traditional, economical and mental conflicts of women. Adichie presents real life situations in her novels. Adichie succeeds in creating characters that negotiate hybrid identities defining selfhood. She wants woman to realize herself through self analysis. Such a quest for one’s own identity forms the theme of her novels. Purple hibiscus reflects the theme of identity. In the home culture each female is exposed to a fixed identity, but when she moves outside her home life. She is able to develop her own values from the world views of his parents. Purple hibiscus is a coming of age story for the central characters Kambili. The novel is narrated by Kambili about her struggle to attain her self- identity. This paper focuses on the search for self identity. The novel aims at discussing the divergent problems encountered by Nigerian women in the patriarchal