Analyzing "The Third and Final Continent"
17rnm"The third and final continent"
"Interpreter of Maladies"
Jhumpa Lahiri is of Bengali descent and writes of her own experiences from assimilating to America from India. She has written several pieces and one of them is "Interpreter of Maladies." In this piece she has 9 short stories. Including "The Third and Final Continent."
STYLE AND LANGUAGE USED
"I left India in 1964 with a certificate in commerce and equivalent, in those days, of ten dollars...I lived in north London, in Finsbury Park...By now I had enough money to go by plane. I flew first to Calcutta, to attend my wedding, and a week later I flew to Boston, to begin my new job" (Lahiri 189-190).
Jhumpa Lahiri
Symbols in "The third and final continent"
The First Man on the Moon.
"While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek this fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first" (Lahiri 216).
