Throughout the story, how does Lahiri develop and relate her American and Bengali-Indian backgrounds? How does Lahiri’s complex background influence the central themes and conflicts within the story? Identify examples that reflect Lahiri’s diverse background.

Lahiri develops and relates her American background through Hema as she tries to imitate or copy American culture.

Explanation:

Lahiri develops and relates her American background through Hema as she tries to imitate or copy American culture. She shows her Indian culture through hema's mother. As an Indian, Hema's mother keeps her up dated with the culture of her ancestors and where she came from. Even though Hema lives in the united states her mother still follows begali culture like most immigrant parents do. Am sure that lahiri shows her complicated background through hema's resistance of her mother instiling the bengali culture onto her. "My mother considered the idea of a child sleeping alone, a cruel American practice, and therefore did not encourage it, even when we had the space". She related to me that she had slept in the same bed as her parents until the day she was married and that this was perfectly normal. But I knew that it was not normal, not what my friends at school did, and that they would ridicule me if they knew. The summer before I started middle school I insisted on sleeping alone, but she objected at first.

the primary theme of "elegy written in a country churchyard" is a reflection about the significance of the lives of a group of modest people buried in a rural church cemetery. elegies focus on the death of an individual or group of people, and they generally have a melancholy tone. hope this you all.