Q4 4B

I'm reading The Village Bride of Beverly Hills by Kavita Daswani and it's getting very exciting!!

I read a bit more of my choice book, the namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, and the books deal with the same issue and I am learning so much about life for Indian immigrants in America. Ashima and Ashoke have an arranged marraige much like Sanjay and Priya. Both Sanjay and Ashoke had been living in the United States before they went back to India to find a wife to bring back across the ocean. I feel bad for Priya and Ashima because they are homesick and miss their families a great deal. The main difference between the women however is that Priya has become Americanized and drives, wears Western clothing and has a job whereas Ashima does none of that and stays home all day and takes care of her children. It takes different people different amounts of time to adjust but I also think that the difference in the times/years may account for some of the difference. Priya moved to the United States in present day America and Ashima had immigrated in the 1960s, when there were less immigrants from Asia and many "hippies", as Ashima notes yet doesn't use the term 'hippie'. Both Ashima and Priya see the way that Americans treat them differently when they speak in an accent or wear traditional clothing. Ashima says that being an immigrant recieves the same kind of pity/ respect as women do when they are pregnant. Priya notes that people stare at her traditional Indian clothing for an extra few minutes.