Pirzada’s hand to slip and make a gash in the pumpkin. Lilia’s dad fixed it, and when Lilia returned from trick or treating at night she found the pumpkin smashed into pieces in her frontyard.

Answer: At the end of the story Lilia feels that she can finally throw away her remaining candies from Mr. Pirzada because she knows that Mr. Pirzada and his daugthers are safe.

The most important conflict is Pakistan’s current situation because without it, Mr. Pirzada does not have to worry about his family. From it, other conflicts are created. Lili’a parents represent the old school while Lilia represents the new school.

Answer: In “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mr. Pirzada gives Lilia candy every time he visits her and her family, and Lilia keeps the candy in a special sandalwood box that once belonged to her grandmother.

The watch itself symbolizes his family. He always had it with him, even at the dinner table where he kept it arranged perfectly on a napkin. This act symbolizes Mr. Pirzada’s attempt to be with his family even though he is a world away from them, giving them a seat on his perfectly crisp folded napkin.

Pirzada Came to Dine” Jhumpa Lahiri presents the idea that kindness can be helpful for a person that needs it. No matter what situation one person can be in always be kind it can make them feel better. Every evening Lilia and her parents have dinner with Mr. Pirzada.

Tone is the writer’s attitude towards the material and/or readers(Academic Broolyn.com). The tone of this story is sympathetic, because you feel bad for Mr. Pirzada being away from his family for so long, especially given the fact that his country is going through a rough time.

Mr. Pirzada is from Dacca, then a part of Pakistan. He left behind his wife and seven daughters for a fellowship to study the foliage of New England. Since his fellowship provided for only a meager dorm room, he comes to Lilia’s home to eat with her parents and to watch the news of the Indo-Pakistan War.

Why is Lilia’s mother happy about living in the United States? Pirzada’s home, wants to keep and maintain her cultural heritage and is trying to fit in as an american.

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18. Lines 496–499: What feeling is created by the sentence “My mother did notseem particularly relieved to hear from me”? The feeling or message that is conveyed by this scene is grief or denial.

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Pirzada further developthe story’s theme? Lilia’s observations demonstrate that time had really gone back in Mr. Pirzada’s place. She notes that her meals and actions were “only a shadow” of what happened already to his family in Dacca.

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Throughout Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” it is clear that symbolism is used to emphasize two distinct themes: hope and opportunity. Mr. Pirzada came from Dacca to work on a book, while his family is stuck in the middle of the civil war, known as the India-Pakistan Conflict of 1971.

In particular, World War II led many women to take jobs in defense plants and factories around the country. These jobs provided unprecedented opportunities to move into occupations previously thought of as exclusive to men, especially the aircraft industry, where a majority of workers were women by 1943.