Paradoxes In The Story Interpreter Of Maladies

The premise of narrative therapy was developed as a way of removing the blame in sessions. This could allow the opportunity in hopes of gaining empowerment within the client. Narrative therapy is thought of as more of a collaboration between the therapist and the client to allow recognition of his or her natural competencies, expertise and unique skills that one possesses. By practicing the narrative therapy process it is conceived that the client can then return with a sort of plan or outline that can assist in guiding them towards more productive and hopeful positive changes within their lives. Humans are generally viewed as separate entities from that of their own issues at hand. This being said, humans take their problems and have way of either blaming themselves directly or tossing it to another directly, instead of matching the issues with the symptoms. We as humans need reasons for everything in order to compartmentalize our situations. It is just how humans are naturally wired.

The narrator of Ralph Ellison’s “King of the Bingo Game” is a scared but fighting man. The protagonist of this story is an African American man. He is from Rocky Mont, North Carolina. In the story, his wife Laura is ill and will die if they are not able to take her to a doctor. He is playing a game of bingo in order to try to win the daily jackpot, so he can take Laura to the doctors. He gets bingo and is called up to the front to spin the wheel, but when he goes up to spin the wheel he is not able to let go of the button. He is having a hard time letting go of problems that are occurring in his life. Ralph Ellison’s “King of the Bingo Game” is about an African-American who is trying to cope with many different conflicts in his life throughout one bingo game.

In contrast to both Emerson and Thoreau, Poe is famous for his writings that we filled with mystery and death. In one of his excerpts, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, he writes to prove a man’s sanity while describing a murder he committed. This is quite ironic, seeing that someone who committed a horrendous crime such as murder would be ever be categorized as sane. The first entry into his passage describes how the character in the story believes himself to be healthy and wise. Also, he knows he has a disease, or at least claims to have one. Maybe this disease could possibly be alcoholism, causing his vision and overall mentality to be distorted. “True!-nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The

I think that reporters should just observe news events as they happen, and they should interfere in any way. Reporters should be able to interfere because they have a right called "Freedom of Speech". If someone was talking about them in a good or bad way, I think that person has the right to interfere. If it was a life or death situation, they should definitely interfere. Journalists, along with everyone else, have the right to know what is going on in this world. If reporters did not interfere at all, they might regret that moment for the rest of their lives. If journalists have a say in something, they should be able to say what they want to say. If reporters disagree on something, they have the right to speak about that specific thing.

The Society’s Perspective Portrayed in the Story of My Misfortune The Story of My Misfortune, written by Peter Abelard- a distinguished philosopher in Paris, describes how the middle-aged society examined his romantic affair with Heloise. Her uncle, Canon Fulbert, strived for the best educational instructor to further Heloise’s intellectual gift. Then Peter Abelard, who was the only one qualified, found himself astonished and seduced by her uncommon intelligence and soon sparked his love for her. However, the law of Paris prohibited them to persist their love and depicted it socially unacceptable. Regardless, their intrigue continued and even resulted in premarital pregnancy of Heloise in Brittany, where Peter Abelard was born.

In the many short stories in Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri there are many similarities and differences. There are main themes shown throughout the whole book. One main theme is relationships. Other recurring themes are, vulnerability and change which occur during the relationships. In both stories, “Sexy” and “Mrs. Sen’s”, the characters start off the story being alone and vulnerable, and throughout the stories, they form new relationships to that fill their vulnerability, however, they relationships both end because of what happens in their new relationships, for Miranda it is because a change in her moral, and for Eliot it is maturity and responsibility.

In Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies,” Mr. Kapasi represents the lust and vanity of young adults in the late 1990’s through his private thoughts and actions.

In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus meets the Aristotelian definition of a tragic hero as divine fate and tragic flaws lead to his downfall. Oedipus’s tragic flaws like hubris, curiosity, and anger, contribute to his unfortunate fate. The components of a perfect tragedy as defined in Aristotle’s Poetics are at the center of Oedipus Rex. The play contains the elements of a perfect tragedy such as “imitation … purification … [and] recognition” (Poetics). Similarly, the movie Awakenings is a tragedy because it has elements of “imitation,” “recognition,” and “serious implications.” The protagonist Leonard Lowe is not a tragic hero

Hi, I’m Dilsher Brar and today I’ll be talking about Jhumpa Lahiri’s use of structure in the Interpreter Of Maladies to create unconventional stories from common situations. I have chosen four texts to aid me in my presentation. These texts are- Sexy, Interpreter Of Maladies, Temporary Matter and This Blessed House. My main reason for choosing these texts is the fact that all of them revolve around similar issues- mainly marital issues and adultery. These situations are very common now days and I believe that most people will be able to relate to them. Another reason for choosing these stories is that they all have a few things common in terms of structure. All these stories are like having a quick look into the lives of the characters without knowing much about their background. The exposition of these stories starts off by showing the characters than by actually providing us with any details about these characters. The climax of these stories too is right at the end and fails to provide us with a bona fide resolution. In my presentation today, I would first talk about the structural portions of the stories and will then move on to talking about the commonalities between them.

Change is complex. Change requires sacrifice in order to gain; things we are so connected to have to be given up, but ultimately it is a choice to sacrifice those things. Andy Law, a distinguished author, portrays this concept perfectly in his book Creative Company. He states, "Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you 'll be forever in the control of things you can 't give up." Human nature tends to lead people to hold on to what they are familiar with--things that help comfort them in unfamiliar circumstances. When holding on to one 's past so tightly, it is hard for them to move forward. Jumpha Lahiri, author of Interpreter of Maladies, writes stories about people

The parasitic monster had somehow found its way to earth by some series of events. It landed here in hopes of continuing the survival of its once thriving alien race. Their lives were ruined after a man had crashed his ship onto their planet. He was able rescued, and soon after he was gone, the humans returned to blow up their home. During the departure of the rescue spacecraft, the parasite smuggled itself aboard, and that was where it heard the plans to destroy its native habitat. The creature knew now that it would be the only possible survivor, and began to scheme. It eventually figured out the one way it could keep its species from extinction, and the one way to do that would to find something it could feed off of, eventually creating a clone.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley, an American actress and author, once said that “Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it, your relationship goes cold”. Jhumpa Lahiri, the author of The Interpreter of Maladies, Hell-Heaven, and A Temporary Matter, shows that she agrees with this idea through the conflict displayed in her short stories. In all three stories, a loss of communication between people becomes present and ultimately leads to a failing or meaningless relationship. Different types of loss of communication that the different characters experience in the stories include a loss of connection with each other, and choosing not to listen and communicate with one another. Throughout the various

Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000 with her first collection of short fiction, Interpreter of Maladies. Among that collection there are two stories that will be analyzed and compared. “Interpreter of Maladies” and “This blessed house” are short stories where Lahiri displays her style and provides some perspective of her own life. Jhumpa Lahiri delivers and impressive short story titled as the book “Interpreter of Maladies” where the Das family is taking vacation in India and Mr. Kapasi is their tour guide. There are some symbols present in the story discussed by scholars; these symbols are almost imperceptible when first reading this short story.

Throughout both stories, the reader can recognize how both of the protagonist’s self-perception contradicts reality. Each of these stories show the reader how judgement is used daily, and how it can affect people’s lives. Both of these stories are universal with the message they provide. Judgement is something that humans do by nature to one another, and the stories show that sometimes in some situations, the judgement that you have on one another, can lead to devastating consequences such as death, or the decrease in someone’s

Narrative therapy is one of the post-modern therapies used today. Narrative therapy helps individuals identify their values, skills, and knowledge they have to effectively face problems in their lives. The key ideas of narrative therapy are: people’s stories give meaning to their lives, stories are shaped by emotional themes, a person’s story shapes his/her personality, people seek counseling when their stories do not match their lived experiences, and people who have less social power benefit greatly from Narrative Counseling. The concern is with meaning making and there is an emphasis on mindfulness and positive psychology. The process of Narrative therapy starts in the initial stage exploring the client’s issues. It then transitions into the insight stage to a deeper understanding of the issues. The insight stage is followed by the action stage, where the client and therapist work to change the story and therefore change the outcome. Lastly, there is the termination phase.