This Blessed House

This Blessed House
I was very intrigued by Jhumpa Lahiri’s biography and couldn’t wait to read her work. Her educational credentials are impressive and her traveling experiences make it even better. There is a lot of educational applications that come with traveling that people do not even realize. Students that have seen different parts of the world, having a better schemata which will help them achieve well academically. It is especially beneficial when traveling occurs on a regular basis, like it did for Lahiri. I was also intrigued by the fact that she likes to discuss the difficulties that love causes, problems within families and the communications between language and culture.
This Blessed House is a story that represents a description of characters that I have never experienced. Lahiri does such an extraordinary job at making her characters come alive. I feel as if I have known Twinkle and Sanjeev forever. Their relationship is very interesting and does not make much sense to me. Twinkle obviously has a hidden desire to know about God in the way she values all of the pieces that relate to him. Sanjeev on the other hand despises anything piece that reminds him of Christianity. It surprises me that even though he is disgusted by them, he seems to always compromise and allows them to stay around somehow. Little did he know that a little compromise throughout the “treasure hunt,” would eventually lead to complete surrender. In my opinion, when Sanjeev “pressed the massive silver face to his ribs, careful not to let the feather hat slip,” represents him completely surrendering himself to the "treasure hunt."

Sanjeev’s testimony can relate to many people in this world today. There are so many people that run from the truth and the signs that God try to show them. God reveals himself constantly to people just as the “Christian,” pieces in the story kept appearing. Even when they thought there were no more “treasures," that could appear, they kept coming. This represents that no matter how far we run or how long, God will continually chase no matter how long it takes.
Whether or not Lahiri meant to incorporate spiritual implications in her story, I most definitely discovered some. These insights helped me to make connections between the lives of Twinkles and Sanjeev and the lives of the many believers and non-believers I deal with on a daily basis, especially myself.