Unaccustomed Earth 3

Megan and Amit's story ended, however with Megan angry at Amit. Throughout the course of Pam's wedding night, Amit had consumed a lot of alcohol. He was sitting at the dinner table discussing with another woman the details of Amit and Megan's marriage after they had kids. Amit replied, "Actually, it was after the second one that our marriage sort of - dissappeared" (113). The woman got angry at him and left him in haste, so he decided to go back to the hotel alone to call the girls. He ended up falling asleep and Megan got very worried when he did not return. They looked all over for him when someone finally found him sleeping in the hotel room. When he woke up the next morning she was very angry at him, and it seemed that Amit was right, that their marriage had dissappeared. A new story started up; a girl by the name of Sudha, her age advancing as the story went on, with a younger brother of about 3 years. She introduced him to alcohol when she was in college, and he had become hooked on it ever since. As they grew up, she began to find out that he was developing a drinking problem. After being admitted to college, Sudha's brother Rahul, started going downhill, skipping and failing classes. When Sudha tried to intervene, Rahul would just shut her out. Eventually he dropped out of school and his life went down the tubes; living at home and working at a laundromat. Sudha's life had just begun, she went over to study in London and fell in love with a man whom she proceeded to marry. However, she did not let him in on a lot of stuff. "And so she did not tell Roger about Rahul's drinking, about his arrest, about the fact that she had not talked to her brother in months" (150). Sudha kept many things inside, especially the fact that she had always been very protective of her brother. That is one of the themes that these stories is that the main characters always seem to keep everything inside and have a hard time expressing their true feelings to others.