about Shukumar and his wife Shoba going through the troubles after experiencing their stillbirth and explains how they get “closer” during a power outage. Shukumar is a strong man and really tries to support his wife in the distant relationship they develop. Shukumar is worthy of character analysis because of the way he changes throughout the story is very intricate by his experiences. He tries hard to show his love and care‚ but faces a reality check in the end. In this situation‚ Shukumar is like
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between two persons. Shoba and Shukumar‚ having planned a good life ahead of them had a sudden change in plans when their child had died. After that incident Shoba planned to separate from Shukumar and this did not help save their marriage. Her reasons for leaving Shukumar were because of their failure to love‚ communicate‚ and the change of roles between the two. Although‚ the decision of a divorce was never established it would have been for the better. Also another reason why Shoba planned on leaving
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lose interest in their well-being. It has been six months after the stillbirth of Shoba and Shukumar’s first child. Shukumar stays at home all day and puts off his dissertation while Shoba‚ who used to be a busy body around their home‚ now stays away from the house as much as possible. The electricity in their home will be turned off right around dinner time for five nights in a row in order to fix the power line. Shoba suggests they tell each other secrets in the dark like her family would do when
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we will be able to accept these changes and the grieving process will be easier. In the book ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ (Jhumpa Lahiri’s) characters Shoba and Shukumar enter a world of grief after losing their first child. The book is set in America but their cultural background is Indian‚ although Shukumar has not spent as much time there as Shoba it is talked about regularly throughout the story. The tragedy that occurred in their lives made it impossible for them to find the connection in their
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Essay on “A Temporary Matter” In the story‚ “A Temporary Matter”‚ Shoba‚ the wife‚ tells her husband‚ Shukumar‚ that she is going to move out. The loss of their baby is a key factor in this decision but it is not the only factor. One cause of the relationship ending the way it did was the fact that Shukumar was never around. Shoba and Shukumar could never really spend time together because he was always working. While this did not in any way cause the death of the baby‚ his not being there during
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tragedy‚ they were pleased with one another. However‚ when Shoba gives birth to a stillborn child‚ the couple isolated themselves from each other. Shoba distracted herself by working and keeping with her routine while Shukumar lost motivation to finish school. The death of their son created detachment and reticence in their marriage in contrast to their abiding love beforehand. Before the stillbirth‚ the author portrays Shoba and Shukumar as a couple with a stable relationship. Lahiri specifies that
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Temporary Matter” By Jhumpa Lahiri 1. The story is about the marriage of the 2 main characters‚ Shukumar and his wife‚ Shoba. The story begins when Shoba‚ returning home from the gym‚ finds a notice from the electric company letting the people of their street know that nightly there will be an hour long outage while they are repairing some lines that had been downed during their last snowstorm. Shukumar is comparing the differences in his head from his wife the way she was when they had wed three
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disappointment of her marriage‚ and he his.” The stories present a particular negative view of marriage. Does your reading of the stories support this view? Lahiri’s stories present a particular mixed opinion and view on marriage. In “A Temporary Matter”‚ Shoba and Shukumar’s marriage is untrustworthy and has a negative feel to it between the characters after their baby’s miscarriage as they fail to communicate to one another at all. Twinkle and Sanjeev from “This Blessed House” have a marriage full of trust
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It is safe to say Shukumar misunderstands the flexibility of the nuclear family. He fails to see the nuclear family can stretch only as far as the inside of a 1‚000 square foot home in Levittown‚ but not as far as India. He views the nuclear family or the American dream as a way to prove belonging – a couple adhering to South Asian identity‚ while also fitting into the American fold – but the American Dream is really about assimilation. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Assimilation as “The action
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Secrecy is a recurrent theme of Interpreter of Maladies. With reference to at least three stories‚ what are the causes and effects of this trait on the lines of the characters? Secrecy is the act of hiding information from certain individuals or groups. Secrecy is often controversial‚ depending on the content of the secret‚ the group or people keeping the secret‚ and the motivation of secrecy. Jhumpa Lahiri’s anthology‚ “Interpreter of Maladies”‚ explores this theme through several characters
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