Book Summary, Review and Comparison with the Movie by Mira Nair
a novel by
By- NAME- ISHANI CHATTERJEE CLASS- BJMC 2C ROLL NO.- A2028710087
[BOOK SUMMARY,REVIEW AND COMPARISON WITH THE MOVIE BY MIRA NAIR]
BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEW The first word of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake isn’t a word at all. It is a date. 1968, to be exact. But in many ways it is fitting that the opening line of Lahiri’s captivating novel takes the reader back in time, for much of the story is an examination of the tension between past and present. And it is that tension between what was and what is – never far from Lahiri’s or the reader’s mind – that drives the narration, colors the drama, and shapes the lives of the novel’s characters. As The Namesake opens, Ashima Ganguli is a young bride who is about to deliver her first child in a hospital in Massachusetts. Her husband, Ashoke, is an engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ashoke had traveled back to Calcutta to find a wife. While Ashima wrestles with an intense longing to be with her family and to share the experience of childbirth with her mother and father, Ashoke wants to provide a better life for his new son by earning a doctorate degree. While both characters want to build a better life in America, however, their pasts play a strong role in who they are and what they will become. The baby boy is healthy and the new parents are prepared to take their son home. But Ashima and Ashoke are stunned to learn that they cannot leave the hospital before they give their son a legal name. The traditional naming process in their
By- NAME- ISHANI CHATTERJEE CLASS- BJMC 2C ROLL NO.- A2028710087
[BOOK SUMMARY,REVIEW AND COMPARISON WITH THE MOVIE BY MIRA NAIR]
BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEW The first word of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake isn’t a word at all. It is a date. 1968, to be exact. But in many ways it is fitting that the opening line of Lahiri’s captivating novel takes the reader back in time, for much of the story is an examination of the tension between past and present. And it is that tension between what was and what is – never far from Lahiri’s or the reader’s mind – that drives the narration, colors the drama, and shapes the lives of the novel’s characters. As The Namesake opens, Ashima Ganguli is a young bride who is about to deliver her first child in a hospital in Massachusetts. Her husband, Ashoke, is an engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ashoke had traveled back to Calcutta to find a wife. While Ashima wrestles with an intense longing to be with her family and to share the experience of childbirth with her mother and father, Ashoke wants to provide a better life for his new son by earning a doctorate degree. While both characters want to build a better life in America, however, their pasts play a strong role in who they are and what they will become. The baby boy is healthy and the new parents are prepared to take their son home. But Ashima and Ashoke are stunned to learn that they cannot leave the hospital before they give their son a legal name. The traditional naming process in their