A Temporary Matter By Jhumpa Lahiri's 'A Temporary Matter'

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This course includes eight reading about facing reality. The first group focus on the people who can face reality with things that life gives them, and the second group focus on the people who can’t face the reality. Both groups are able to face reality in a certain extent, however it is only how they cope with the reality of the situation that are handed to them. By analyzing the characters in these poems and short stories, students will gain insight on how facing the reality can affect one in thousands of ways. Can Face Reality The second group of text feature adults who are able to face the reality of there situations. Two poems and two short stories that features adults who are able to face the consequences of their actions or the negative things that life throws at them. Poems The poems included in the section is Nikki-Rossa and Future Connected By. The poems include an African American writer who poems focus on race and social issues, and poems that focus on the working class. Nikki-Rosa Walter 's Not only did Shoba didn’t care about their appearance anymore but she was trying to hide her sadness by adding more work to her work load. “The more Shoba stayed out, the more she began putting in extra hours at work and taking on additional projects” (302). Shukumar was also starting to let his self go. Also at first he was focused on his finishing his final chapters of his dissertation on agrarian revolts in India. “Until September he had been diligent if not dedicated, summarizing chapters, outlining arguments on pads of yellow lined paper” (303). However, that’s take a downfall with the death of their child because Shukumar “now he would lie in their bed until he grew bored, gazing at his side of the closet” (303). He also would forget to do his daily hygiene routines such as brushing his

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