Jhumpa Lahiri Does culture affect identity and behavior? The Namesake is the story of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli from their traditional arranged marriage in Calcutta‚ India‚ to their immigrant life in America and the family they raised in the suburbs of New York. The film explores cultural identity and tends to reflect at key turning points in the story on the Russian “pet” name‚ Gogol‚ that Ashoke gave his son in honor of the author of a book he had been reading on a train prior to its crash
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The character Gogol in the book The Namesake is a dynamic character. Gogol is a dynamic because of many reasons‚ the most evident being his attitude to his family. Gogol’s attitude and feeling toward his family is a great example of Gogol being a dynamic character because he is always having thoughts of how embarrassing his family is as well as just disregarding his parents’ concern and love for him‚ but sadly his father passes away and he becomes more appreciative of his family and more home
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struggles of the first-generation immigrants to assert a western identity‚ as well as to maintain rich eastern traditions. It also explores the challenges faced by the children‚ being second-generation immigrants‚ as represented by the main character‚ Gogol‚ who attempts to shed the Bengali identity to fully embody the American status. Yet‚ the journey towards re-invention and self-discovery finally teaches him the value of family‚ one’s roots and cultural pride. This study concludes that this novel reflects
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boy named Gogol Ganguli. Gogol’s name is very different compared to everyone else and he has struggles with having a different/unique name. When I first started reading the book in class‚ Gogol’s name really stuck out to me. The reason being because of how unique it was. I feel bad about how Gogol had struggles with his name because I felt that everyone should love their name‚ no matter what anyone else thinks about it. Now‚ I don’t personally have a different/unique first name such as Gogol‚ but my
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whole different lifestyle than her life in he home country. Coming from India to America for her husband’s education‚ having a baby in America‚ and having to cope with her mother’s illness and father’s death‚ while being in another country‚ Ashima Ganguli proves to be a strong woman. When Ashima is at the hospital‚ she hears a man say “[He] loves you‚ sweet heart”‚ to is wife (3). Ashima never expects this affection to happen between Ashoke and herself‚ since she had an arranged marriage and does
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in his life. So often people try to forget what makes them who they are what makes them different what makes them special. Culture‚ although it can’t be taken away it can be very easily forgotten and lost to history‚ Gogol doesn’t learn this lesson until later on in life. When Gogol was younger he listens to what his parent said but didn’t really like to embrace the part of himself that was from Bengali. For example when he goes to school and he says “He is afraid to be Nikhil‚ someone he doesn’t
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First‚ to understand Gogol’s background the reader was shown the perspective of not just Gogol‚ but Ashima and Ashoke. They had to culturally force themselves to satisfy their customs in a place far away
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Projecting thoughts into future is a way of writing that Lahiri applies in various points throughout the book; however‚ the last three pages of the novel are totally based on this writing style. More specifically‚ the writer describes the way of life that Gogol and his mother will have to adopt‚ since she has decided to spend half of the remainder of her life in her homeland‚ far away from her children. Furthermore‚ the reader learns about Gogol’s thoughts and feelings‚ after he has temporarily abandoned
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"It hadn’t been Gogol who had kissed Kim... Gogol had nothing to do with it." Here you can see how the name Nikhil had been used to become something he usually is not‚ this reflects in a positive way because it benefited him by gaining more confidence to get what he wanted. Another example of a challenge that was faced by identity was when Gogol went to court. Gogol is at court changing his name and part of the application states ‘Explain a reason for the change in name’ in which Gogol could not specify
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The Characters of Hermann‚ Akaky Akakyevich‚ and the Underground Man and their conflict with the world around them In the present paper I plan to analyze the characters of Hermann from Alexander Pushkin’s "Queen of Spades"‚ Akaky Akakyevich from Nocolai Gogol’s "The Overcoat"‚ and the Underground Man from Dostoevsky’s "Notes From the Underground". The characters will be looked at from the perspective of a conflict each of them has with their surrounding reality. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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