Both Lahiri and Desai are notable authors of Bengali Indian descent. While Jhumpa Lahiri was born in England and has lived in America since the age of 3, Kiran Desai moved to England at the age of 14, and to America a year later. Lahiri and Desai received great success with their works of fiction. Desai's second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won her the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Lahiri's debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.
These powerful writers create characters that live in two worlds. Often the characters find themselves lost in between the East (India) and the West (England or America). While they swing between the two worlds, their lives tell stories of many immigrants and children of the immigrants. In The Inheritance of Loss, the characters are ruined by their encounters with the West. Lahiri, however, mostly writes about Bengali Indians and Indian Americans of Bengali origins in her works. Like Lahiri, her characters face two forms of identity—Indian and American—as they try to find themselves.
The organizational structure used in this passage is compare/contrast because the author shows
A.
the groups and subgroups in which Lahiri and Desai's works belong.
B.
the sequence of development in the characters found in these writer's works.
C.
why these writers choose to live in the West and what their effect on India is.
D.
how the works and lives of Lahiri and Desai are similar yet different.
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Both Lahiri and Desai are notable authors of Bengali Indian descent. While Jhumpa Lahiri was born in England and has lived in America since the age of 3, Kiran Desai moved to England at the age of 14, and to America a year later. Lahiri and Desai received great success with their works of fiction. Desai's second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won her the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Lahiri's debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.
Both Lahiri and Desai are notable authors of Bengali Indian descent. While Jhumpa Lahiri was born in England and has lived in America since the age of 3, Kiran Desai moved to England at the age of 14, and to America a year later. Lahiri and Desai received great success with their works of fiction. Desai's second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won her the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Lahiri's debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.These powerful writers create characters that live in two worlds. Often the characters find themselves lost in between the East (India) and the West (England or America). While they swing between the two worlds, their lives tell stories of many immigrants and children of the immigrants. In The Inheritance of Loss, the characters are ruined by their encounters with the West. Lahiri, however, mostly writes about Bengali Indians and Indian Americans of Bengali origins in her works. Like Lahiri, her characters face two forms of identity—Indian and American—as they try to find themselves.
Both Lahiri and Desai are notable authors of Bengali Indian descent. While Jhumpa Lahiri was born in England and has lived in America since the age of 3, Kiran Desai moved to England at the age of 14, and to America a year later. Lahiri and Desai received great success with their works of fiction. Desai's second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won her the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Lahiri's debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.These powerful writers create characters that live in two worlds. Often the characters find themselves lost in between the East (India) and the West (England or America). While they swing between the two worlds, their lives tell stories of many immigrants and children of the immigrants. In The Inheritance of Loss, the characters are ruined by their encounters with the West. Lahiri, however, mostly writes about Bengali Indians and Indian Americans of Bengali origins in her works. Like Lahiri, her characters face two forms of identity—Indian and American—as they try to find themselves.The organizational structure used in this passage is compare/contrast because the author shows
ans why these writers choose to live in the West and what their effect on India is.