Comparing The Namesake And In The Time Of The Butterflies

In The Namesake and In the Time of the Butterflies we see a change in the reality of that time period. The Namesake explores a change in an identity of a character and the path to finding that identity. In In the Time of the Butterflies we explore a change in gender roles, and who is in the most control of the house at that time. Within these stories their authors do a great job changing how we thing reality should go at that time. Starting with The Namesake we can see how finding an identity can be difficult. This film is about a family who moves to America in the 1960s, and have a son who is trying to fit in to his double lifestyle. The Namesake changes reality by showing a young Indian boy who is trying to be like or fit in more with the American kids. At the beginning of the movie we see him being picked on for his name and we also see their mailbox vandalized. During the time period that this book/film was based upon, which was the 1960s and on, people in America we not fond of people from different nationalities living in America. As in the beginning of the film the mother is very

During the time The Namesake was written we wouldn’t expect an Indian boy to be able to find a balance of Indian and American lifestyles, during that time we would just expect since he is Indian that is the only lifestyle he can have. In In the Time of the butterflies, we would never expect that the women would be the superior ones in this story about revolution, since in the 1950s the men were the superior ones. Reality can be changed in any way we want it to be, and I think the authors of both of these stories did a great job of showing that. These characters play a different persona than that of what we would expect during that time period, and the authors can do that because nothing is ever as it seems to be, and that is what makes for good books and