Identity Crisis of Migrant Workers in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen

Abstract

Monica Ali's In the Kitchen expresses the working class’s position through identifying the exploitation and ways of striking them. Ali attempts in presentation of the different community occupying a large land in England. The author seems to have dealt with the communal issues especially the immigrants’ economic condition and their overall lifestyle. In course of coping with this issue, Ali has been too much biased and unfair. Despite not having adequate information about immigrant, she pretends to have known a lot which is pretty clear in the novel In the Kitchen. Yure, the central character, her mouthpiece has been portrayed in such a way that she has always revolted against the Immigrant culture and lifestyle. It discloses the innermost motive of the writer that she herself is too preoccupied with the concept that the Immigrant culture and people of its followers are orthodox and rigid which is in fact partially true. Thus, the novel in its entire is the misrepresentation of the Immigrants.

Monica Ali's In the Kitchen expresses the working class’s position through identifying the exploitation and ways of striking them. Ali attempts in presentation of the different community occupying a large land in England. The author seems to have dealt with the communal issues especially the immigrants’ economic condition and their overall lifestyle. In course of coping with this issue, Ali has been too much biased and unfair. Despite not having adequate information about immigrant, she pretends to have known a lot which is pretty clear in the novel In the Kitchen. Yure, the central character, her mouthpiece has been portrayed in such a way that she has always revolted against the Immigrant culture and lifestyle. It discloses the innermost motive of the writer that she herself is too preoccupied with the concept that the Immigrant culture and people of its followers are orthodox and rigid which is in fact partially true. Thus, the novel in its entire is the misrepresentation of the Immigrants.