Gogol Friendship Quotes And Analysis

In the novel the author uses Gogol’s internal conflict with his culture to show the irony of him tying to get rid of his culture at a young age but a desire for it later on 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 know. Who doesn't know him” he then says “It's a part of growing up, they tell him, of being a Bengali” he listen to what his parents told him but he did not do it he wanted to be like an “American” with one name (Lahiri, 3). Gogol does a similar thing on his trips to India he goes to India but he’s never really full embraces the culture he
He didn’t realize it at the but what his mother and father where trying to teach him as a child wasn’t really for his benefit as a child but something they wanted him to carry with himself for the rest of his life something he could pass on to his kids. They wanted him to know where he came from so that no matter how far way he got way from his family he would always know where his roots were. Although people may think that it is too late to learn and embrace their culture it never is, it is part of them it can be lost but it can also be found. In America we are very lucky to have such a large verity of people and culture, but for some reason some many people try to forget they try to be “American”. People shouldn’t try to forget their culture but instead embrace it because when we lose our culture and were all just the same and that’s just sad and