Category: A Temporary Matter

Characters and Themes «A Temporary Matter» is told from the third-person perspective of Shukumar, whose name means « Very sensitive » in Bengali. Shukumar is indeed very sensitive, and the death of his still-born child has had a tremendous impact on his life. Shukumar is a middle-aged man with an inferiority complex, as he is…

Thesis: An authors word choice, sentence fluency, and their tone contribute to their style of writing and help achieve a certain effect while shaping the story and its characters. An authors word choice can define which emotion a reader feels as they progress through a story. Their use of certain words can create a mood…

In the short story A Temporary Matter’ by Lahiri Jhumpa, a young Indian couple, Shukumar and Shoba, suffer from unresolved grief. The couple have been married for a few years and were about to have their first baby. However, three weeks before the babys due date Shoba went into early labor and suffered a stillbirth…

Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once said, Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me (www.goodreads.com). Being an immigrant himself, Fuentes understands the difficulties and challenges that an immigrant may face as a result of coming from a different culture. However, he implies that they are just like everyone else; suffering…

Prompt one states that Lahiris subject is not loved failure but the opportunity that an artful spouse, like an artful writer, can make a failure of that. I agree with that statement because people’s opinions on love and marriage can be altered just from one person’s wrongdoing. The short story of Sexy exhibits this the…

Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once said, Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me (www.goodreads.com). Being an immigrant himself, Fuentes understands the difficulties and challenges that an immigrant may face as a result of coming from a different culture. However, he implies that they are just like everyone else; suffering…

Prompt one states that Lahiris subject is not loved failure but the opportunity that an artful spouse, like an artful writer, can make a failure of that. I agree with that statement because people’s opinions on love and marriage can be altered just from one person’s wrongdoing. The short story of Sexy exhibits this the…