A winner of the Henfield Prize from the Transatlantic Review‚ she has published stories in The New York‚ Agni‚ Story Quarterly and elsewhere. Her stories will appear in Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. Jhumpa Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Fiction for collection of short stories‚ Interpreter of Maladies. JhumpaLahiri was born in London to Bengali parents. She recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship‚ JhumpaLahiri has been acclaimed a dominant
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Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the author of‚ The Namesake wrote this story from personal experiences and does a tremendous job showing how a person can move on with their life but the people who truly love them will always be in the same place. The main character‚ Gogol (aka Nikhil)‚ is a first-generation Indian who seems to only care about his life/future and wants nothing to do with his heritage. We are taken through his life long journey up until the end where he truly finds meaning in his life. Gogol’s definition
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Interpreter of Maladies Throughout the Interpreter of Maladies‚ Jhumpa Lahiri categorizes all nine books in a questionable yet interesting way. All of her stories involve a relationship between friends‚ family‚ and couples. Lahiri portrays the ideas of honesty‚ compassion‚ and respect by introducing the Indian culture. Lahiri’s technique and style of all nine books represent the important values of relationships. Lahiri’s selection of ordering the stories should be categorize on how different issues
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empowers an individual for better or sometimes for worse. An individual’s perceptions of belonging evolve in response to the passage of time and interaction with their world. It is a condition which is portrayed through the novel the Namesake‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ and the cult movie The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes which encapsulate the struggles and journey’s of both feelings through the passage of time. In the literary text the dynamic characters illuminate the idea and challenges of belonging
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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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Thakur Ankita Project In English I 13 October 2014 Diasporic Narrative in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Abstract Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake predominantly involves the collision between the two cultures American and Bengali. It not only determines the clash between the different generations but also vivid ideologies affecting the lives of middle class family and especially the life of Gogol. Jhumpa Lahiri tries her best to portray the lifestyle of a very simple Bengali Family residing in abroad
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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‚ interaction
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In the novel‚ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the protagonist‚ Gogol‚ faces many challenges due to his ethnicity and regional differences. Lahiri’s purpose is to portray Gogol conflicting within himself‚ on how to act in order to advise the audience how cultural collision will affect people’s lives. The author’s treatment of Gogol having trouble on what to do throughout the novel relates to the overall meaning of the novel showing that people who have different cultures have a difficult time adjusting
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gift‚ something truly miraculous. A person’s own family is the greatest wealth that one can ever possess but it is upon an individual to realize the true worth of the love and blessings that his own family has to offer them. In “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri” Gogol’s drastic journey to adulthood filled with unexpected and emotional experiences makes him eventually realize the importance of family in his life. In Gogol’s early twenties all he thought about was to get away from his family. The reason
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Throughout the Namesake‚ Jhumpa Lahiri uses both diction and the theme of isolation to show how Ashima and Ashoke constantly oppose Gogol and his beliefs because of the different cultures in which they grew up. After moving to the United States‚ Ashima and Ashoke possess an extreme sense of seclusion because they must raise a son in a foreign country that they are not familiar with. While Ashima lies in the hospital bed waiting to give birth to Gogol‚ she immediately feels isolated. Without Ashoke
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