The Third And Final Continent By Jhumpa Lahiri

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The Third and Final Continent Analysis
In the Third and Final Continent, Jhumpa Lahiri uses her own experiences of being from an immigrant family to illustrate to her readers how heritage, cultural influences and adaptation play a major role in finding your true identity. The Third and Final Continent is the ninth narration in a collection of stories called the Interpreter of Maladies. In this story, it discusses themes such as marriage, family, society, language and identity. In this story, we focus on an East Asian man of Bengali descent who wants to have a better future for himself so he leaves India and travels to London, England to pursue a higher education. His pursuit for higher education takes place on three different continents. In India, he feels safe in his home country and welcomed, but when he travels abroad he starts to have fear and anxiety. Through his narrations, we learn how he adapts to the European and American and through these experiences he learns to assimilate and to adapt to the new culture he travels to.
In England, he is able to keep his Indian identity when he meets other Bengali students who come …show more content…

Crofts age through her daughter he starts to have a better understanding of her actions. Mrs. Croft is a hundred and three years old so she does distribute tendencies of being senile at times, but she is also very independent and strong willed. The narrator 's mother feels that its time for him to get settled and married and to possibly start a family. The family arranges a nice marriage for him with a Bengali woman named Mala. The narrator understands this agreement because in his culture arranged marriages are not uncommon. The relationship with his future wife at first starts off very slow and awkward. He has never met her before so when they do finally meet he treats her as she is not relevant in his life. He never feels that it 's important to discuss his recent marriage in India to anyone no even Mrs.

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