... 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 this theme throughout. Lahiri conveys this theme through her effective ... his identity that is developed after changing homes. It is this changing of homes from Calcutta in India to Massachusetts in America that reflects on Ashoke's identity c...

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On the surface, both Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness and the 1939 film Gunga Din are tales of great adventure and great prosperity obtained in foreign lands. Beneath these basic archetypal storylines, however, lies a wholly European ... ;creature...[rises] to his hands and knees, and [goes] off on all fours towards the river to drink" (Conrad 30). Indigenous peoples are portrayed in this way throughout the novel, treated not as human beings but as animalistic, indistinguishable parts of "a black and incomprehensible frenzy"-"a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet st...

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