where Gogol actually chose his life path‚ as an architect‚ not an engineer or a doctor like he was expected to do. Earlier in the movie‚ the kindergarten scene was cut out. That scene‚ in the book‚ was essential part of understanding the name issue‚ which is the main focus of the book. There were come details added‚ too. At the end of the graduation party‚ when Gogol comes home after smoking weed with his friends‚ one of the family Bengali women performs an anti-black magic spell‚ because Gogol had
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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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Gogol’s Identity Throughout Namesake‚ Gogol Ganguli struggles with his identity being both Indian and American. Although he tended to stray far away from anything Bengali‚ his deeply rooted culture never faded away. After his father’s death‚ Gogol gradually returned to his Indian traditions. He takes care of his mother and sister‚ abandons the life he could have with Maxine‚ then marries a Bengali woman. In his attempt to stay clear from anything Bengali‚ Gogol revels in the fact that he could escape
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your identity? In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gogol is caught in the midst of colliding cultures and responds by adapting to the host culture‚ the American culture. Throughout Gogol’s life‚ he faces an identification crisis and a crisis in balancing between the Bengali and American culture. Gogol slowly moves to the American culture and erases majority of his Bengali lifestyle and culture. In Gogol’s first few years in the American society‚ Gogol already had trouble with his colliding cultures
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name symbolizes the double identity of Gogol. In Lahiri’s novel‚ the main character fights an identity crisis because of his highly unusual name. Gogol struggles between two cultures to try and figure out his own identity and where he belongs. He attempts to create separation between himself and his parents’ worlds‚ but never feels authentic as Nikhil. When Gogol starts kindergarten‚ his parents want him to go by “Nikhil” at school and “Gogol” at home. Gogol is bothered by this because he feels
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the author explores how cultural collision can affect a specific character: Gogol. Lahiri demonstrates the theme of finding one’s identity by displaying the protagonist Gogol’s cultural collisions in each stage of his life. In each period of his life‚ Gogol faces many collisions between the Bengali and American culture; the manner in which he reacts to each experience is a way of searching for his identity. In his earlier years‚ Gogol seemed satisfied with his life as he is influenced by the Bengali culture
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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 Namesake “The Namesake‚” written by Jhumpa Lahiri ‚ was published in September 2003‚ . It depicts the hard life of Ashoke and Ashima‚ two first-generation immigrants from India to the U.S‚ and the cultural conflicts between their American-born children and them. As a spectator‚ I do believe that both cultures are privileged in different parts of the books‚ and the influences on both generation of acculturation and assimilation in this book also need dialectic discussion. But the
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Namesake" The struggle to find self identity within the upbringing of two different and contradictory cultural groups is the main theme for Alice Pung’s memoir Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s film The Namesake. The main characters for each‚ Alice Pung and Gogol Ganguli respectively grow up the children of immigrants from developing to western countries who are torn between respecting‚ participating and identifying with traditions from their parents countries or fully immersing themselves in the identity of
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novel Namesake‚ in this novel the author introduces the protagonist Gogol. Gogol thru the novel can be described as confused because Gogol is Indian‚ but since he was raised in America he follows the American culture and not the indian culture anymore. Therefore‚ Lahiri conveys the complexity of identity by using setting in this case the setting is America also‚ Lahiri is using tone to convey the complexity of identity on how Gogol feels and Lahiri uses style to convey the complexity of identity to
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