Bharati Mukherjee

It does not have to be everything you are. In “Two Ways to Belong in America” by renown author, Bharati Mukherjee. This is the story of Bharati and her sister Mira, two young Indian sisters who try to fit in America. She quotes “We would endure out two years in America, secure our degrees then return to India to marry the grooms of our father’s choosing.”(Mukherjee 70) From this excerpt, Mukherjee gives insight to her cultural heritage and traditions that she was brought up on in India.In the…

Compare and Contrast Analysis In her essay “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati Mukerjee effectively employs structure and rhetorical devices to compare the experiences that she and her sister Mira share and contrast the perspectives they develop after immigrating to America. By listing the similarities and differences between herself and Mira, the narrator presents the two distinctive opinions that American immigrants possess about immigration restriction. Mira and the narrator are exact…

In the novel Jasmine, author Bharati Mukherjee uses protagonist Jasmine’s experiences and transformation as a critique of immigration. Specifically, Mukherjee describes how immigration can alter one’s persona and consequently reshape your identity. A key method that Mukherjee employs to establish her stance on immigration is through her use of secondary characters such as Taylor, Wylie, and Duff. Prior to immigrating to the United States, Jasmine is in a suicidal state and struggles to find a…

There are no other countries that are more racist then United States. One of the victim of this is, Bharati Mukherjee, explained in her essay The American Dreamer. Mukherjee comments she felt discriminated by being classified as Indian-American. It is true that Whites have been racist to other races in the history, especially in United States. But the hyphenation doesn’t exist to keep minorities away from the dominant group, but classify them as a sup-group of a dominant group. Hyphenation…

Days and Nights in Calcutta is a memoir that Bharati Mukherjee and her Canadian husband Clark Blaise collaborated on, giving their day to day account of Calcutta during 1973. Bharati as she visits Calcutta after a gap of fourteen years, having spent a considerable length of time in Canada with her husband Clark Blaise, socialises with her childhood friends, especially women who attended the same school with her, with a hope to revive her relationship with the land of her birth and upbringing.…

horoscope of Jyoti, he predicted her widowhood and exile. “Life times ago, under the banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ears –his satellite to the stars –and foretold my widowhood and exile. What is to happen will happen?” (Mukherjee,3) So after the marriage of few years, of her life she becomes the widow and exile as predicted by the astrologer. Because of this power of astrologer people believe them more than god and they believed this superstitious belief as…

and Bharati Mukherjee is the younger sister as well as the narrator. Mukherjee shares the struggles of the two sister’s lifestyles, choices and views on citizenship (567). Both sisters grew up in India and originally came to the US for their education with plans to return home and marry the men their father had selected. The sisters love each other and have the same religious beliefs, however they are very different. As the story goes on Mira married a fellow Indian student, while Mukherjee…

Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “There are no facts, only interpretations.” This is very true when we talk about how parts of our culture influences our perceptions. Our perceptions of others and the world around us are so heavily influenced by our beliefs, heritage, and traditions that it sometimes blinds us from being able to view someone else’s perspective. In the story “An Indian Father’s Plea,” by Robert Lake (Medicine GrizzlyBear), the traditions of Robert’s Indian tribe blinds him from…

culture or surrounding. Here are some examples of differing cultural perception. The story “Two Ways to Belong in America”, a biography by Bharati Mukherjee, shows how and when culture impacts people’s perspectives on a new setting within a family. In the story Bharati Mukherjee and her sister Mira have moved to the United States from their home country of India. Bharati and Mira both go their separate ways and react differently new…

someone’s personal opinions. What she learned was that she doesn’t have to rely on herself, but yet, she can lean onto her culture if guidance is needed. In Bharati Mukherjee’s “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati had a strong culture background and abandoned it while her sister Mira was strong towards her culture and religion. Bharati began with religion and family traditions,…