Unaccustomed Earth Relationships

Everyone fantasizes about how life and relationships are, for any kind of relationship we may have with anyone. We picture this perfect fairytale like connection with someone. In Unaccustomed earth Lahiri, shows how hard and complicated some relationships are, and how it can be hard to keep a good connection/relationship with someone. The three stories show how even someone you are with every single day of your life, can be so far away from you no matter how close someone may seem to be.
There are many different relationships that we will have in life. Some that may seem more important in such as, family, friend, and romantic relationships. In Unaccustomed Earth, there are many different kinds of relationships going on in the three stories,

With Hema and her parents, Kaushik and his parents, Hema and Kaushik, and their parents with each other.(once in a lifetime) In this story, Hema's parents think and feel that Kaushik's parents are different than what they were before they moved to India. Their values and traditions are different then when they had met the family years before, because of this the parents seem to be a bit distant from each other. The kids don’t seem to be very close with their parents as maybe they would want to be and Hema and Kaushik, they don’t talk much at the beginning of the story until the day that Kaushik told Hema about his mother and why they really moved back to Boston. "Again and again I had heard how much your parents had changed, how we unwittingly opened our home to strangers" (245). This quote can say a lot, but what it mainly can say in this section, and with what was going on in the story, Kaushik's parents felt and knew that their relationship would be different then when they had first met, and when they had their kids growing up together for a while. They're parents know that things are different between them.

Yet we learn that even though someone is related to you, and you may be family, that the people you will expect to always be there, and understand you and be extremely close with, are the people that we have a greater distance with. They're the ones that we have farther away, and are sometimes the last to know about anything, important, good or bad to go on in our lives. We also learn that we won’t always have those people with us forever, they will be here and with is for a certain amount of time, and then one day, they will no longer be with us physically anymore, and with those kinds of loses, we sometimes gain another connection, relationship, or person in our lives. Some that may last forever and other that do not. In Years End, it is more about Kaushik and his family, and in this story, Kaushik loses the relationship he had with his mother, because his mother passed away. With his mother passing away and losing her, and that connection he had with his mother, he also lost a connection with his father. It seemed that him and his father for a while did not talk much, and did not tell each other much about their lives either. Even though they may not tell each other much, when they see each other, Kaushik has to get used to his father's new Marriage, which added two-step sisters as well, and he tried to have some kind of