Pulitzer Prize winner, Juhmpa Lahiri, effectively conveys the theme of the alienation experienced by immigrants assimilating into a new place and the exposure of two cultures, relative to how one's 'home' reflects on their identity in the novel, The Namesake. This bildungsroman novel, set in both India and America and which follows a Bengali family's attempts at assimilating within American culture, portrays ... evidence is expressed of Ashima's willingness to assimilate further into the culture that surrounds her. Her children, for whom assimilation comes more naturally and represen...

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... were "still had to learn to coexist with the Indians in the feral American wilderness. More than a century later, in 1680, the colonies would begin experiencing successive waves of immigrants from the countries of northwestern Europe and the arrival of African slaves, and the cultural and demographical impact would be enormous. While some European immigrant groups lacked adequate numbers to ... exchange. Poverty in the colonies thus increased, fueled not only by the efforts of cutthroat capitalists at the top, but by warfare with the French and a continued influx of European immigrants....

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