published The Namesake‚ her first novel. The story spans over thirty years in the life of the Ganguli family. The Calcutta-born parents emigrated as young adults to the United States‚ where their children‚ Gogol and Sonia‚ grow up experiencing the constant generational and cultural gap with their parents. A film adaptation of The Namesakewas released in March 2007‚ directed by Mira Nair and starring Kal Penn as Gogol and Bollywood stars Tabu and Irrfan Khan as his parents. Lahiri herself made a cameo as
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Jhumpa Lahiris “The Namesake” explores the link to belonging in detail. The emphasis is on Gogol Ganguli. Gogol struggles with a sense of belonging to his family and his Bengali culture and heritage throughout his life in the course of the novel. Born and raised in the U.S.‚ while his parents spent their entire life in India following Bengali culture and practices and moved on to America as young adults. Gogol must try to find a sense of belonging as he deals with trying to belong in American society
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The Ganguli family in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake has a problem. The mother and father are traditional Bengalese from Calcutta‚ and they are not particularly interested in assimilating into the United States‚ their adopted home. Gogol‚ their son‚ however‚ was born in the United States and is somewhat embarrassed by his parents Bengalese practices. Gogol is also uncomfortable with his name. It is neither a Bengalese nor an American name. No one he knows has a name like his. In school‚ kids make fun
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how the characters feel a sense of belonging and not belonging. In the first text The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri which is about the Ganguli family‚ Ashima‚ Ashoke‚ Sonia and Gogol‚ but the story is mainly focused on Ashima and Gogol. In the novel we see the views of Gogol and how he feels about his traditional indian family‚ and we see Ashima’s views of how Gogol chooses to live in a westernised way. The type of audience that the Namesake aims at is young adults to adults‚ people who like reading
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Throughout the movie issues with parents‚ partners‚ different cultures and death all play a key role in purveying the messages the director wanted to get across. When the Ganguli family has to move from India to New York we see how relationships change and how Ashima has to change in order to adapt to the American lifestyle. Gogol who is Ashima’s son first started having a relationship outside his culture and without the backing from his parents with a wealthy white girl‚ Max. In the Bengali culture
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them will always be in the same place. The main character‚ Gogol (aka Nikhil)‚ is a first-generation Indian who seems to only care about his life/future and wants nothing to do with his heritage. We are taken through his life long journey up until the end where he truly finds meaning in his life. Gogol’s definition of home changes throughout The Namesake as he experiences the world when he journeys off on his own. In the beginning Gogol finds himself despising his Indian heritage and doesn’t want
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‘being human signifies‚ for each of us‚ belonging to a class‚ a society‚ a country‚ a continent and a civilization.’ Belonging is a human desire of being accepted with people or places. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s story‚ The Namesake‚ the story follows the Ganguli family from their traditional Indian life in Calcutta through their uneasy transformation into America. This family is strewn with opposing fidelities and the underlying concept of the difficulties of cultural belonging‚ for being tradition bound
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www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN-0976-8165 The Treatment of Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Name Sake D.Ebina Cordelia Assistant Professor in English Holy Cross College‚Tiruchirappalli Tamilnadu. Indian writing in English is one of the voices in which India speaks. It spreads the traditional and cultural heritage of India within India and also introduces it to the whole world. It is Indian in sensibility‚ thought‚ feeling and emotion
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Most people struggle‚ some does not. The question of identity is especially difficult for immigrants and their coming generations since they have different cultures and different views. In the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the main character Gogol struggles with his cultural identity due to the ideological difference between him and his parents on the concept of name. According to Bengali naming traditions‚ everyone has two names‚ a pet name and a good name. The good name is for the public
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film “Namesake” that we viewed in class depicts the story of two young newlywed Indian immigrants who moved from Calcutta‚ India to settle in the United States of Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Initially‚ the story begins to pick up pace when their son Gogol & his little sister Sonia is born during the first couple of years of their parents marriage where you notice the cultural differences among the Indian and American culture. In most western countries it is acceptable for parents to allow their
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