The Namesake Identity
ENG 101
Professor Fisher
04/26/12
Space & Identity The story The Namesake, which was quickly made into a movie, consists of challenges that every character faces through their surroundings and their ability to adapt unto change. Each character in The Namesake obtains challenges from inhabiting or the desire to inhabit spaces, which define them by how they react to these situations. This paper will describe the characters actions and identities and their surroundings unto change as well as Gogol’s ambition to be an architect which works with domestic interiors. One of the characters that obtain multiple identities is Ashoke: “He was born twice in India and a third in America. Three lives by thirty.” (Page 21) This implies that from his near death experience as the first time when Ashoke was on the train, the end of his second into his third life is when he moves to America. These three ‘lives’ are not implied as Ashoke does not deserve to live. It merely states that when he left to America the drastic change in lifestyle as if he lives a completely different life then how he did in India. …show more content…
It brings him the confidence to kiss her: "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 any. He was stuck, had no thought exactly of why he chose to change his name, he froze. Gogol had no true reason as to why he wanted his name changed; all he knew is that he did not like his name at
Professor Fisher
04/26/12
Space & Identity The story The Namesake, which was quickly made into a movie, consists of challenges that every character faces through their surroundings and their ability to adapt unto change. Each character in The Namesake obtains challenges from inhabiting or the desire to inhabit spaces, which define them by how they react to these situations. This paper will describe the characters actions and identities and their surroundings unto change as well as Gogol’s ambition to be an architect which works with domestic interiors. One of the characters that obtain multiple identities is Ashoke: “He was born twice in India and a third in America. Three lives by thirty.” (Page 21) This implies that from his near death experience as the first time when Ashoke was on the train, the end of his second into his third life is when he moves to America. These three ‘lives’ are not implied as Ashoke does not deserve to live. It merely states that when he left to America the drastic change in lifestyle as if he lives a completely different life then how he did in India. …show more content…
It brings him the confidence to kiss her: "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 any. He was stuck, had no thought exactly of why he chose to change his name, he froze. Gogol had no true reason as to why he wanted his name changed; all he knew is that he did not like his name at