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Item Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Study on the Transformation of Self Identity(Department of English, 2008) Neupane, MilanA Christmas Carol by Dickens reveals author's creativity over handling the subject matter of transformation of self identity in a highly reputed manner. He was drawn from the contemporary Victorian society because the society was extremely involved in materialism. Themes of greed, regret, charity, and existential dilemma are the aims to show by Dickens. By showing these features, Dickens tries to show the contemporary Victorian society that was surrounded by more evil. While handling the theme of existence, Dickens sometimes used indirect existential elements. He concentrates on the freedom, identity, self etc. that are hidden inside the human ego. We can see the processes of identity transformation of the protagonist in the textItem Immigrants' problems of identity in America: A study in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior(Department of English, 2022) Poudel, AnuradhaMaxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior explores the hardships of searching identity in America as a Chinese immigrant through the conflict between first generation and second generation immigrants. The novel tells their story and their efforts to rise above their working class status in America while they feel isolated in different surroundings. Kingston's experience is not unlike that of other immigrants who come to America to escape hardship in their homeland and hope to live the American Dream. The analysis shows that the road to American success has numerous obstacles, and immigrants encounter many of them on their journey. One conflict relates to their cultural identities when America becomes the meeting of two cultures, which, for immigrants, becomes a place of contradictions and hatred, anger and exploitation.