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    The Namesake

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    Matt. J. Sociology The Namesake A Bengali girl named Ashima partakes in a marriage arranged to Ashoke Ganguli. After the ceremony the new couple left India to move to the United States where Ashoke has started to build a new life. They were going to face the cultural differences together‚ as one. For Ashima‚ this was difficult. Her new husband had to earn a living to support the two of them so she often found herself home alone. Not knowing the English language or culture at that became very

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    American culture. Many of those involved in diasporic situations feel that adapting to the social norms of their new surroundings is an act of betraying their roots in which their heritage and all preexisting traditions will be lost. Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake highlights this struggle through the eyes of the Ganguli family. The novel ultimately shows us that one can simultaneously belong to two cultures‚ in this case Indian and American culture. Many scholars are hung up on the fact that protagonist

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    A Temporary Matter Thesis File Hassam Mairaj   A Temporary Matter Introduction "A Temporary Matter" was originally published in the New Yorker in April 1998 and is the first story in Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut collection‚ Interpreter of Maladies (1999). The collection won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction‚ a rare achievement for a short-story collection. The story takes place over five days‚ beginning March 19‚ at the suburban Boston home of a married couple‚ Nadia and Ali. During this week‚ when

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    Gogol’s Namesake: Identity and Relationships in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Author: Judith Caesar Allusions to Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The Overcoat" permeate Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ beginning with Gogol’s being the name the protagonist is called through most of the book. Yet few of the reviewers of the novel mentioned Nikolai Gogol at all in their discussions of the novel‚ except to describe the protagonist Gogol’s loathing of his name‚ or to quote without comment or

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    Aody Rafati Dr. Jodi Melamed Eng 2010 12/11/2014 Cultural Identity in The Namesake The Namesake illustrates several elements of transition that are common to the stories of immigrant families and their children. As shown in the film‚ the first generation connects with their cultural identity and roots to a far greater degree and density than their children do. The second generation exists between two realities of culture including their ethnic heritage and the world they live in presently

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      Cultural collisions can draw attention to characters as they struggle between their  personal cultural identity. These collisions often cause an individual to question who they are.  In Jhumpa Lahiri’s ​ The Namesake​ ‚ the author explores how cultural collision can affect a  specific character: Gogol. Lahiri demonstrates the theme of finding one’s identity by  displaying the protagonist Gogol’s cultural collisions in each stage of his life. In each period  of his life‚ Gogol faces many collis

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    18 Struggle to Acculturate in the Namesake: A Comment on Jhumpa Lahiris Work as Diaspora Literature! Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt GJ!jarat Arts &Science College‚ Ellisbridge‚ Ahmedabad Abstract The aim of the paper is to bringforth the wqy in which Jhllmpa Lahiri‚ a Plllitzer prize winner novelist explores the dilemma of name and immigrant ’s sense of identity and belongingness in the novel The Namesake. The paper discllsses the term ’diaspora: and their role in the present dt!Y world‚ the mqjor

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    In Juhmpa Lahiri’s novel‚ The Namesake‚ the reader is thrust into the daily life of Gogol Ganguli. Gogol is a promising young man from a Bengali family‚ which the reader gets the pleasure of knowing since his birth. Ever since Gogol’s childhood all he ever wanted was to find a place where he could truly fit in‚ whether it be in his own culture‚ or in the American one in which he lives. During his life‚ Gogol searches everywhere to find out who he is and where he belongs. During his long search‚ young

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    The Namesake Identity

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    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

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    Neil Gaiman‚ wrote in The Ocean at the End of the Lan. Jhumpa Lahiri in his great novel The Namesake agrees with this‚ but the relationship between parents and children in the novel "Namesake" is curious because as Gogol grows up and mature he was able to understand the teaching of his parents about life. In this novel‚ the relationship between parents and children is the main idea that determines the destiny of different stories. The Ashoke and Ashima relationship with their parents was attached

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