Nishi Patel Ms. Berryman English I Honors, Period 6 10 September 2015 My name is Nishi Patel. I was born in Edison, New Jersey. Until I know someone well, I might act timid and shy. To me, making friends is frightening! Friends describe me as cute and sweet, But I am also stubborn and discrete Friends say I am good willed and trustable — Generous, and kind. I describe myself as childlike, immature, and over sensitive at times. I am fond of riding my bike. Snowy or winter days are my favorite to bike on. It allows me to clear my mind and just think about anything and everything. Winter is my favorite season. Something about the cold I just admire. I love comic books, ( Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite) Also goes to show why I am usually
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, written by Sherman Alexie, is a novel describing a 14 year old’s journey throughout high school. In the story, Junior, the main character, is faced with multiple obstacles in his life: Hydrocephalus, poverty, and the target of bullying. Despite the world being against him, Junior’s multiple traits helps him greatly when it comes to the adversity that accompanies his migration from the Wellpinit Reservation to Rearden.
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In the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time Indian”, author Sherman Alexie shares a compelling story representing racial issues among communities and families in cultural areas today, and a boy’s journey to find who he truly is, while being torn between two cultures. In this novel the main character, young Junior finds himself truly understanding that he is more than just an indian. In order to know more about the plot behind the novel, author Alexie takes the reader into Junior’s perspective to bring the story to life and let the reader understand how racial issues along with family problems make a play into today’s society. The novel shows a countless number of situations Junior encounters that impact his life throughout the novel.
In “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”, published in the Los Angeles Times, journalist Sherman Alexie expresses the division between the Indian and white culture also how hard it
It was August of 2015, the first day of high school, I had no idea whether I would ever see my friends from middle school as much as I used to. However, I met many new people by joining SASA, a club offered by the school, which improved my personality extremely. Friendships are a key factor to developing one's personality. Many of the extrinsic characters coming to America in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies felt the same way when they moved into a different environment. However, they all came to appreciate and favor the new friends they made in America, so they felt more intrinsic in their new homes. Although some may think friendship is not the most crucial factor in character development, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays how the intelligence
In her essay “My Two Lives,” Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian American, explains the balance between the identities of the two countries inside her heart, as well as her psychological struggle between her bicultural identities. She describes herself as an Indian-American because she moved with her family from India to the United States when she was very young. However, confused with her identity through her growth, she feels that she doesn’t belong to either of the two countries because of its completely different cultures. When she is at home, she deals with her parents in an Indian way, which is strange compared to the American way that she come across outside. She says that she has a distinctive identity in spite of her Indian appearance
Once an individual realizes that life is giving him a second chance, he transforms into a new breed of a man; there is an innovation of ideas that arise in him as he realizes that there is no correlation between being safe and staying alive. Ashoke Ganguli becomes a new man after miraculously surviving a train accident on his way to visit his recently blinded grandfather, who was awaiting for his grandchild to give him more books, his getaways from the real world. Moreover, the train accident became the defining moment of Ashoke Ganguli as his love for fiction books became nothing more than a former hobby. The train accident stirred the callow man’s dormant dreams, as he realized that his life is not secured. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. Everyone's aspirations, values and habits influence their identity, however a quality one can not change nor ignore is their cultural background. Our culture consists of our behaviors and beliefs, making it our most impressionable factor throughout our development. Culture gives meaning to the word identity and may even distinguish groups. Jhumpa Lahiri explores the effects of a cultural clash in her novel The Namesake, in which Ashima Ganguli is torn between her origins as a Bengali women and the American Culture she is forced to adapt to. This forced change compromises her character, leaving her identity up to the culture she choses.
This is Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison is a famous inventor who invented lots of things that we use today. He was born a very long time ago in the United States of America.
The setting of the story is based on the city of Ahmedabad in Western India. It retains its small town (colonies) and traditional Indian households. This story begins with author receiving an e-mail from Govind who had taken many sleeping pills. As the plot then he listen to Govind and build the story through his story. In this city, live three best friends ; Govind, Ishaan and Omi. The main character, Govind’s aim is to become a Businessman. Ishaan, a cricket freek and Omi, a boy from a religious background joins hand to help Govind start a cricket shop business. Omi give support for choose a place through his connections. Ali, as an important character is a Muslim child master and clever for cricket. But he can’t play
But I have learned to forgive and accept. I now grow on the seeds of my scars. I build gateways over boundaries, so language barriers and fear may not inhibit me. I channel resilience over intoxicating delusions, so I will persevere rather than hide. I avoided my grandparents with fear of misspeaking. Fear of embarrassment. I valued my dignity above all and neglected my family and culture. I now learn Cantonese and dance in Chinese club because my culture is beautiful. My heritage is my identity. My pride. I will embrace it shamelessly. Loss is inevitable, so I cherish, love, and hold dear the people in my life. So I speak, mistakes and all. Nothing is more crucial than communication, for anything is better than holding back and regretting. I seek deeply for memories, nurturing little details, like when we shared marmalade, or when we played his untuned piano, or when she let me water plastic houseplants, or when I spent hours handwriting Chinese characters I didn’t even understand for their Christmas card. I have gone from giving nothing to giving everything I can. I am nuoh nuoh–the most endearing name I could have ever asked for. Anyone can be a typical character, but who can be fat jelly? Jelly is sweet, comforting, and plump with love. It is original, bubbly, and flexible. It is
I decided to do my report on Thomas Alva Edison because he brought a lot of things into our world. He invented the light bulb, the alkaline battery, the phonograph, and many other things. Many of our modern electronics origins came from Thomas A. Edison. I thought he was very interesting. That is why I chose him.
I like to look at myself as a genuine, thoughtful young lady. I’m a hard worker; I believe nothing is ever handed to you so you have to go get it. I worked hard to get to this point of my life and working even harder to get to the successful and graduate part of my life. I care more for some others than I do myself but I have a huge nonchalant attitude. I don’t really show anger or sadness much I always smile because I’m optimistic about life. I look at life as if something bad comes along, no need to dwell on it you can’t take it back so just move-on and improve what you did wrong if it’s possible.
The plot in the short story “Hindus” demonstrates how a certain sequence of events can help people better understand themselves. Leela meets many different and unique people on her journey throughout
Yet the truth is that magazines such as Hans have been increasingly publishing Dalit literature as a matter of course. The publication of the 2004 special issue proved to be one of several rallying moments around the same time for this large and diverse community of writers, activists and intellectuals; as well as a popular legitimisation of sorts of the hard work this community had been doing for years to carve out a space in the world of Indian literature to articulate the experiential and political perspectives of Dalits. The ‘mainstreaming’ impact of this kind of publication could be seen when, five years later, in August 2009, Navaria again edited the annual special issue ofHans – this one not specifically focused on Dalit writing but rather on new voices in Hindi literature, of which Dalits are a part.