The Namesake Film Analysis

Around the world, people struggle with many things like drugs and depression. The film adaptation of The Namesake starts with Ashima and Ashoke getting marry and adpadting to the American culture. Later on, they would have two kids named Sonia and Gogol. Gogol the main protagonist of the film doesn’t understand why his father gave him the name Gogol. Throughout the film, Gogol struggle to find his identify and he started to change throughout the movie. First, Gogol was immature in early if the film because he was really young. He didn’t know much. He was getting bully in his English class because of his name. They were the reading he author name that has the same name as Gogol. He was smoking marijuana with his friends. He was going to Yale for his college. His father gave him a book that meant a lot him but he didn’t seem to care. He thinks that his father gave him the named Gogol because that was dad favorite author. Gogol changed his name to Nikhils or Nick because he did like the Gogol.
He was having trouble with American and Indian culture because he’s from America and wants to fit in. He dated a girl named Maxine with a different background then his family. He was getting much closer with Maxine side of the family then his own. He was becoming a different person. When he visited his parents with his girlfriend. Ashoke told the story why he came up with the name Gogol. He was happy that he knows the meaning of his name, and that means a lot to his father. When his father died from a heart attack. He started to come closer with his family and starting to push Maxine