Fresh From The Island Angel

In “Fresh from the Island Angel,” poet David Mura uses the perspective of a young girl to depict the difficulty of moving from one’s homeland to America. Although she lives in a new country, the girl still holds on to her ethnic roots, saying, “I still hold corridors of sunlight. Villages where palms and pomegranates and linen blow” (Mura 13-14). As a foreigner, she faces the challenge of preserving her true cultural background and adjusting to American society. Similarly, in her novel Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri describes the adversity members of the South Asian diaspora endure as immigrants. In one of the book’s short stories, “The Third and Final Continent,” the narrator leaves India and arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts to