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    Gogol‚ the son‚ tries to find his own identity without losing his heritage‚ even though his parents‚ Ashoke and Ashima‚ are proud of the sacrifices they made to satisfy their family’s needs. In America‚ identity became a real encounter to the Ganguli family‚ Once Ashima made a baby boy‚ the baby name was an issue. Ashima and Ashoke were in shock they could not leave the hospital without name the baby‚ because of their home culture. Eventually‚ the couple chose a pet

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    Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies depicts the convergence of the remorseful lives of Indian immigrants with American culture‚ estranged physically or spiritually from their homelands and facing adversity adjusting to America’s sterility. In the story‚ “Mrs. Sen’s‚” the sense of transforming into an American lifestyle indicates Mrs. Sen’s quiet strength‚ but an overbearing loneliness sinks into her life as readers begin to sympathize with her life. Mrs. Sen’s resistance to assimilate to American

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    The Idea of Home In the novel‚ “The Namesake” Gogol is trying to search for his identity and who he wants to be but she is also searching for the definition of a home. He has moved so many times that he started not seeing them as homes‚ but just a place they would have been staying at for a while. The definition of a home is a place that you feel happy at because of all the memories you have. A home is a place where you are loved and you know you are safe and not judged. Gogol does not know how

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    Caught between Two Worlds: The Search for Cultural Identity in Lahiri’s The Namesake Titien Diah Soelistyarini Abstract The question of identity is always a difficult one for those living in one culture‚ yet belonging to another. This question frequently lingers in the mind of most immigrants‚ especially the second generations who were born in a country other than their parents’ motherland. They feel culturally displaced as they are simultaneously living in two cultures. On the one hand‚ they

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    In the early 1900’s the man was seen as the intellectual individual who takes care of their wife and family‚ who arrives home with the money and who was the supplier. However during the 1930’s this typical idea of the man’s role was extremely hard to keep ahold of due to The Great Depression. While the average woman worked on household dynamics and keeping the family afloat‚ the man was out looking for a job‚ or struggling to keep his current job. As a result‚ the average male came home at the end

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    RESEARCH PAPER JHUMPA LAHIRI’S “MRS. SEN’S” (INTERPRETER OF MALADIES) Jhumpa Lahiri‚ through the stories in her book “Interpreter of Maladies”‚ sheds light on the experience of immigrants from the subcontinent who face difficulties in adjusting and integrating and as a result feel homesick and isolated in a new world so different from their homeland. The short story “Mrs. Sen’s” is about a thirty-year old Indian woman who migrated to the United States with her husband. Her husband is a professor

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    In the second part of Jhumpa Lahiri’s acclaimed collection‚ Unaccustomed Earth‚ the two main characters have little in common‚ although a prevalent fear is in both character’s lives. Both Hema and Kaushik have a fear of attachment‚ a fear of being anchored down‚ whether to a place or a person. Kaushik takes a trip alone after he leaves his father and his new family. He says‚ “I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it.” His trip takes him to the border of Canada on the East

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    In the 1950’s‚ gender roles‚ and the behavior of men and women were about as clearly defined as you can get. A new invention called the television popped up‚ and all the popular shows of the day mirrored real life to a tee. Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver were just two of the regular shows that the whole family would sit down and watch together. And why not? The shows of the day reflected the 1950’s family‚ and their values. Families would have breakfast together. The man of the house

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    on the Movie: The Namesake by Mira Nair (2007) Based on the Novel By Jhumpa Lahiri Does culture affect identity and behavior? The Namesake is the story of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli from their traditional arranged marriage in Calcutta‚ India‚ to their immigrant life in America and the family they raised in the suburbs of New York. The film explores cultural identity and tends to reflect at key turning points in the story on the Russian “pet” name‚ Gogol‚ that Ashoke gave his son in honor

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    environment they lived in. This struggle can be clearly seen in the 1920’s‚ when young girls were looking for a voice. Searching for individuality‚ an influx of prosperity occurred throughout the decade of the 1920’s. Flappers caused women to develop into a strong female population; rebellion and transformations made to society greatly impacted the future to come. The sporatic actions of the female youth‚ during the 1920’s‚ enabled Flappers

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