Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies places emphasis on the character’s most impactful moments of realisation, from less significant moments such as the realisation that two people can truly connect in the dark to more important ones such as the revelation of a long untold secret. This essay will discuss some of these moments of revelation and their impacts on each character in relation to two stories, A Temporary Matter and Interpreter of Maladies, As well as the reason why they were painful. From Mr Kapasi’s realisation that Mrs Das had no interest in him to Shukumar’s realisation that he never had a chance of reviving his relationship with Shoba, the moments that will be discussed do painfully impact the characters. Within these two …show more content…
The most prominent of these is the moment the the one in which Shukumar finally realises that the end of Shoba and Shukumar’s relationship was “the point of her game.” Throughout the story, he gives signs that he believes there is a chance that they can reconnect, that “when the house was dark they were able to talk to each other again.” This shows that the revelation that she had been preparing for this moment truly was a shock to him. Shukumar reveals the extent of his pain in the extent of his efforts to shock her in return with the “one thing in her life that she had wanted to be a surprise”, which was his knowledge about the baby, though he had promised himself he would never tell her. The pain felt by both characters is apparent in the last paragraph, wherein, as a last attempt to truly be together, they turned the lights of and “wept together for the things they now knew,” which shows with finality how much the last moment of realisation had hurt and changed them
They were not committed to each other or in love in the first place. During the game they played, the feeling they had was getting more distant by the day. Shoba and his wife were starting to see that they really did not respect each other as a person.
Jhumpa Lahiri composed the two short stories: “Interpreter of Maladies” and “Sexy” that conveyed the recurring theme of feeling like an outsider. During the first story, “Interpreter of Maladies,” there was a character named Mr. Kapasi, a “self-educated man,” who was a “devoted scholar of foreign languages,” who dreamed of becoming an interpreter for diplomats and dignitaries, where he could aid in “resolving conflicts between people and nations, settling disputes of which he alone could understand both sides” (Interpreter of Maladies). This dream became a fantasy after his parents settled his arranged marriage that turned for the worse. Mr. Kapasi’s wife “had little regard for his career as an interpreter,”and she despised the thought of him
Hannibal a fierce determine warrior, general and leader who demonstrated bold, aggressive military leader during the Second Punic War 218 BCE through 201 BCE against the most power rising adversary the Roman Empire. Hannibal was born in Carthage to a family of great wealth. He was reared by a military father, whose ambition was to defeat and conquer the Roman Empire. Although, his father plans never became a reality of defeating the enemy, His investment was in his son Hannibal to bring the powerful Roman Empire to a devastating end.
The patient, LL, is a twenty four year old female who was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder five years ago. Around the ago of eighteen, LL started to experience many symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. She had just started her freshman year at a local college and moved into the dorms with a random roommate. LL was constantly washing her hands and grossed out by the germs, so she came to realize she had a phobia of germs. She would begin sweating and having major anxiety when people went to shake her hand or her roommate would touch her food or any of her things. LL started skipping class and isolating herself in her room in order to avoid contact with other people. When her grades dramatically declined,
For example, throughout the memoir A Long Way Home, Saroo’s journey is filled with bittersweet moments, from the first day he got lost to the day he was reunited with his family. In this essay I will show some examples of bitter sweet moments starting with him becoming lost in India to finding a new home, then having so many advantages in his new life but still missing his old one with his birth mother, and finally to the moment he visited his mother and made a discovery. After his discovery, he planned a trip to India to reunite with his family. He booked a plane to India and imagined himself in the presence of all his family members, but once he found his birth mother he found out that his older brother Guddu died in a train accident while saroo was lost somewhere in India.
Jhumpa Lahiri’s writing has an underlying theme of depression, and this is revealed in “A Temporary Matter” through both of the main characters Throughout passage constant hints were dropped that the two characters suffered from depression. The couple did not discuss their problems with each other to the very end when Shoba was at her wit's end. Lahiri added the idea of her leaving to represent what happens when depression goes on untreated in any situation. Things get broken or they are hard to mend when one wait too late to address the problem at hand. Shukumar and Shoba represent the POC and the approach to mental health. The outcome of their relationship happens almost all the time in this community. Lahiri showcases to her audience the importance of communication and consoling when dealing with depression. She displays this in a way that was slight, however, it still had its presence throughout the
No matter what, where, or who you are, water is a necessary component to keeping any organism alive. Although water is essential for life, in many places, clean drinking water is hard to find. There are many consequences to drinking contaminated water. Every year, three to five million people are attacked by water-borne diseases and over 100,000 of them die. One fatal disease that can kill within hours is cholera.
I will be relating the implication of developing critical thinking aptitudes in order to practice, safe nursing diagnostic and professional judgment in my daily nursing process. I will also converse the approaches and skills that are required to develop clinical thinking and safe clinical problem solving in the environment I work in. The main focus will be on the responsibilities and
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is an in-depth analysis of the history of cancer. The book discusses the beginning stages of cancer when it was merely a confusing phenomenon for doctors that occurred for over a century. For example, "Childhood leukemia had fascinated, confused, and frustrated doctors for more than a century. The disease had been analyzed, classified, sub-classified, and divided meticulously” (Mukherjee 12). Mukherjee is a passionate physician and displays this in his work as a cancer researcher. Mukherjee book consists of his professional experiences working at the Dana-Farber
This assignment is to discuss abnormality in mental health and the medical models used to diagnose mental disorders namely depression and eating disorders, why these models can be unreliable and theories behind what causes these disorders, whether it be environmental (nurture) or hereditary (nature) and how different cultures and societies can have an impact on diagnosing these disorders.
Clinical social workers in the community strive to enhance and maintain psychosocial functioning of individuals, families, and small groups. They also focus on prevention of psychosocial dysfunction or impairment, including emotional and mental disorders. The perspective of person-in-situation (psychosocial context) is fundamental to clinical social work practice (Austin, Barr, & Coombs, 2006).
I noticed quite a few years ago that suddenly everyone in early recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol was also being diagnosed as bipolar; not just a few people, almost everyone was labeled bipolar. Most of these individuals were also taking medications that their doctor had prescribed to deal with their mania and depression. Suddenly everyone had a “dual diagnosis,” these seemed like magical words for managed-care approvals.
Jhumpa Lahiri was born as NalanjanaSudeshana. But as Jhumpa was found easier to pronounce, the teacher at her pre-school started addressing her Jhumpa. In the course of time it became her official name. Jhumpa Lahiri tries to focus on the issue of identity what she had faced in her childhood. Nikhil replaces Gogol when he enters Yale as a freshman. Here nobody knows his earlier name. He feels relief and confident. No one knows him as Gogol but Nikhil. His life with new name also gets changed. His transformation starts here. He starts doing many activities which he could not dare to do as Gogol. He dates American girls. He shares live in relationship. His way of life, food everything changes. But a new dilemma clutches him. He changes his name but “he does not feel like Nikhil” (Lahiri, 105). Gogol is not completely cut off from his roots and identity. He tries to reject his past but it makes him stranger to himself. He fears to be discovered. With the rejection of Gogol’s name, Lahiri rejects the immigrant identity maintained by his parents. But this outward change fails to give him inner satisfaction. “After eighteen years of Gogol, two months of Nikhil feels scant, inconsequential.” (Lahiri, 105) He hates everything that reminds him of his past and heritage. The loss of the old name was not so easy to forget and when alternate weekends, he visits his home “Nikhil evaporates and Gogol claims him again.” (Lahiri,
Some people believe that opposites attract. Others believe that people who are more similar will have a better relationship. Some prefer relationships with older people, and some prefer them with younger people. Jhumpa Lahiri, author of the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies, explores the dynamic of relationships in her works. In her short story “Interpreter of Maladies” a married woman confesses a secret to a man she barely knows. In her story “This Blessed House” a couple fights over the religious relics they find in their new home. While one reads Lahiri’s stories, a theme begin to emerge that shows the woman of the relationship behaving like an adolescent and the man behaving like her father due to the internalized idea of
Clinical rehabilitation is the only way for drug addicts to make lasting recoveries. Whereas laypeople and even medical professionals once treated addiction as a simple lack of willpower, rehab specialists have come to realize that it is a disease which requires holistic treatment. However, most people still do not understand the various therapies offered at rehabilitation clinics. It is crucial that communities gain better understandings of common rehab therapies so that they may serve the needs of those who are unable to help themselves.