I’m on page 130; the themes running through the book are religion, family and finding themselves, so far. The biggest theme in the story is when they moved from their hometown to a strange place, a different world and so they were strangers meeting strangers. And they need to get to used to the world they are in right now even though it’s difficult for them. An example in the beginning is when she was having Gogol, she didn’t like that she was the only Indian in the hospital, and she didn’t like the food. She was so used to doing everything in the way she always did in India. Family was a big part of the theme too, because the marriage between Ashima and Ashoke was an arranged marriage. They never loved each other. But over the past few years they learned about each other and started to learn how to love each other, and now they did more than that, they just had a second baby. Finding themselves was my favorite theme. First they were so lost at their second country (America) and now they have to live with the name they gave to their son which is a pet name in India, but they are learning how to let that go. And knowing the way they are, without thinking about what other people think.
The question I want to ask my classmates is, what do you think it would be like if you had to go to a different country?
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