What do the following lines from The Namesake illustrate?
"Ashima thinks it's strange that her child will be born in a place most people enter either to suffer or to die....
In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares..."
(1 point)
• historical context
• cultural context
O both historical and
cultural context
neither historical nor
cultural context