ASSIMILATION/ALIENATION Immigrants can never truly belong to the environments they find themselves in

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

who is alienated?

mr prizada

Lilia

feel alienated from her homeland

The Third and Final Continent

Who is alienated?

Why/How are they alienated?

they are Indian and new to Boston

Mala

'I found a book titled Pakistan: A Land and Its People. I sat on a footstool and opened the book. The laminated jacket crackled in my grip. I began turning the pages, filled with photos of rivers and rice fields and men in military uniforms. There was a chapter about Dacca, and I began to read about its rainfall, and its jute production'.

“You are, of course, aware of the current situation? Aware of East Pakistan’s fight for sovereignty?”
I nodded, unaware of the situation.

Alienated from his home in Dacca in Bangladesh after it had been invaded by the Pakistani army

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his home country(?)

Currently lives in America

Mr. Pirzada is no longer considered Indian

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He had been awarded the grant from the government of Pakistan to study the foliage of New England

because of the war

her teacher does not understand why she would want to learn more about her own country

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he could not understand the way of life in America /difficulty in adapting

he still continued to do habits to remind him of home(?)

One day in October Mr. Pirzada asked upon arrival, “What are these large orange vegetables on people’s doorsteps? A type of squash?”
“Pumpkins,” my mother replied. “Lilia,remind me to pick one up at the supermarket.” “And the purpose? It indicates what?”
“You make a jack-o’-lantern,” I said, grinning ferociously. “Like this. To scare people away.”
“I see,” Mr Pirzada said, grinning back. “Very useful.”

alienated from her own husband: each night they spent together she would turn from him and weep, because she missed her parents. (page 181)

the narrator

I had never lived in the home of a person who was not Indian.

my guidebook in my pocket

constantly far away from motherland,family/
not permanent place to stay

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