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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frantic attempt to recreate the previous life leads to depression and a loss of identity. Distraught and alienated in America‚ Ashima pushes her Bengali heritage upon her children‚ Gogol and Sonia‚ in an effort to lessen her homesickness throughout The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Ashima completely rejects the bewildering American culture that is thrust upon her and becomes depressed and homesick. These characteristics cause her to be very miserable in her new home on Pemberton Road as she wishes she could
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Summary A year after Ashoke’s death‚ Gogol is studying for his registration exam that will allow him to be a licensed architect practicing in New York. He has broken up with Maxine a few months after Ashoke’s death‚ and now she is engaged to someone else. Sonia is still living in the house on Pemberton Road with their mother‚ who spends her nights awake and lonely‚ watching TV in bed. One night‚ Gogol agrees to go out with the other students in the class he is taking to prepare for his registration
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Beige Pascua THEA 32 “The Namesake” The Namesake is a film that has both visible and invisible sounds. The different sounds are used to portray different emotions in the film. In the beginning of the film we see Gogol’s father on a train when all of a sudden we hear the train screech but we do not see the actual action of the train getting into a wreck. This is what we call invisible sound‚ when you can hear a sound but not see the origin of where the sound is coming from. We also hear invisible
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At the start of the film‚ Ashoke and Ashima leave India for America and their life together begins. The move from the big city of Calcutta to the big city of New York is much lonelier because they have no family nearby and the land is unfamiliar. The climate is also different‚ it is winter time and the weather is cold. Ashima is learning very quickly that the living conditions are different. Ashoke explains to her that they have gas twenty-four hours a day‚ and the difference between hot and
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Mr. O’Sullivan APUSH 410 August 11‚ 2013 The Namesake Life in a new country is extremely difficult. New customs‚ foods‚ and an unfamilliar language can make foreign occupancy even harder. Some families are quick to learn and adapt. For others‚ it may take much longer. In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the Ganguli family has a tough time adopting the American lifestyle so many of us are used to. For us it seems unimportant. Many of us work 9 to 5 and come home to eat dinner and watch the big
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Working Paper No. 18 Struggle to Acculturate in the Namesake: A Comment on Jhumpa Lahiri ’s Work as Diaspora Literature! Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt GJ!jarat Arts &Science College‚ Ellisbridge‚ Ahmedabad Abstract The aim of the paper is to bringforth the wqy in which Jhllmpa Lahiri‚ a Plllitzer prize winner novelist explores the dilemma of name and immigrant ’s sense of identity and belongingness in the novel The Namesake. The paper discllsses the term ’diaspora: and their role in the present
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Home is where the heart is; somewhere you live no matter where you physically are. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ several characters are living in one place while simultaneously living somewhere else. Lahiri uses this tug-of-war technique to strengthen her belief that immigrants living in America struggle to wholly accept one society. Lahiri focuses on Ashima and Gogol’s difficulties coming to terms with which place they choose to accept as home. Additionally‚ both characters express undeniable
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Tone: Sympathetic Genre: Growing Up‚ Family Drama Themes: Identity: In The Namesake‚ everybody is seems lost under various terms . Every character struggles with his or her identity‚ as they feel allured by the different cultures‚ traditions‚ and personal ambition. Gogol‚ in particular‚ is torn between two cultures – the Indian traditions of his parents and the modern American culture in which he grows up. His struggle is the same one that his sister Sonia goes through. It’s also related to the
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what others will think. Otherwise‚ the world would be insanely uninteresting. “The Namesake‚” by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ is about a boy called by the unique name of Gogol Ganguli. When he was young‚ Gogol was oblivious to the differences in his name to socially-normal-names‚ but as he grew up‚ he began to notice them. The story is about a significant event where Gogol realizes just how unique his name is. In “The Namesake‚” Jhumpa Lahiri develops the theme that it is okay to be unique through family influence
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