In Jhumpa Lahiri's book The Interpreter Of Maladies, two stories visualize the different outcomes of death in life in order

to provide a unique view into the aftermath of relatives or close friends of those who died. Death separates and singles out those who are strong and able to cope and those who are weak. In the story of A Temporary Matter, Jhumpa Lahiri presents the audience with the touching story of two parents, Shoba and Shukumar, and how they survive the death of their unborn son. The second is The Third & Final Continent; the story is about a young man who tries to find his way in Britain and then America after his mothers death. In the short story of Jhumpa Lahiri, A Temporary Matter, the author writes about the tragic life of Shoba and Shukamar, The baby had been born dead. Humans all have different ways to cope with pain and drama; Shukumar and Shoba are no exception. Shukumar is the character who finds no consolation in clinging to the past and chooses to move on: partly because the room soothed him, and partly because it was a place Shoba avoided. As you can see he chooses to set his office in the room that was meant for his child, which shows how he moves on from the tragedy. His wife, Shoba, copes with this event by remembering the pain in order to remind herself of what could have been and of what is. The Third & Final Continent is set in 1969, an unnamed man travels away from India to escape the death of his mother and into England, and from England to America. As he starts providing for himself he meets Mrs. Croft; a very old fashioned woman born in 1866, as he becomes more attached to her he feels accepted by not just Mrs. Croft but by the whole of North America. The way that the unnamed man deals with the death of Mrs. Croft is symbolically and physically different than from the death of his mother. When his mother died, the traditional burning of her body was passed down to him, because my brother could not bear it, I had assumed the role of eldest son, and had touched the flame to her temple, to release her tormented soul to heaven. But when Mrs. Croft dies, the man takes a more affectionate pain to Mrs. Croft's death: staring at the wall, the newspaper neglected in my lap, unable to speak. The man finds it hard to even speak about a woman who he just recently met, but setting his mother on fire; he had no objection. As you can see he holds

Mrs. Croft closet to him than he ever did to his mother.