In Bharati Mukherjee’s essay “A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman” the writer talks about her journey – from an Irish catholic school in India to her establishment as a writer in the US.
Due to the fear that reigned in her hometown, she was sent to a foreign school in order to prepare her for emigration.
She’s writing now from a point of view of someone who’s made it to the United States and in this sentence she’s referring to those who’ve had the same destiny as hers – Third World country immigrants forced to live their motherland.
