Comment closely on ways in which the following passage presents Gogols feelings about his homecoming Jhumpa Lahiri eloquently presents in her novel‚ ‘The Namesake’‚ all the different feelings Gogol Ganguli experiences on his train ride back home. One of which is the main feeling of loss which is apparent throughout this novel as well as in this passage. He has lost his father‚ Maushumi and he is about to lose his house‚ which is sentimental to him because it is the one place that him and his family
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faced by Gogol Ganguli‚ the son of Indian-American immigrants. As a young man‚ his father‚ Ashoke‚ nearly died in a train accident‚ breaking multiple bones in his lower body and temporarily developing paralysis. Before it occurred‚ he was reading an anthology of stories by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol‚ and later‚ when rescue teams arrived‚ Ashoke was able to alert them of his presence by dropping a crumpled page of the collection. Ashoke remembers this event for the rest of his life‚
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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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Gogol moves to his childhood house and takes care of his Ashima and Sonia. While Gogol’s mother tries her best to tolerate and accept the girlfriends he brings home‚ but Ashima is not satisfied until she successfully unites Gogol and Moushoumi‚ a Bengali woman‚ in a traditional Indian wedding. Even after Ashima persistently pushes the couple into meeting “as friends‚” Gogol and Moushoumi willingly fall in love and after 1 year of their relationship they gets marry. Coming from the same culture makes
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of Gogol Ganguli‚ a second generation immigrant in America‚ and his haunting feeling of not being able to identify with his name. Gogol feels that his name “has nothing to do with who he is‚ that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things Russian.” (Lahiri 70) This essay will argue that Gogol’s problematic relationship to his name stems from a need for a sense of belonging. Coming from a family that values their heritage‚ Gogol’s name distances him from his roots. As a child‚ Gogol puts
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circumstance he struggles to fit in both the America society and his Bengali home as he feels his name does not belong in either culture. On page 100 we see Gogol’s frustration with his name‚ “the only person who didn’t take Gogol seriously‚ the only person who tormented him.. was Gogol..” Here the author has demonstrated to the reader that nobody else judges him for his name‚ yet he feels that he does not belong. This reflects Gogol’s insecurity with his name making him feel out of place in both cultures
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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 Gogol meets a beautiful‚ New York Intellectual
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essential to an individual’s identity‚ and plays a significant role throughout one’s life. The significance of both name and identity is evident in “The Namesake” as it is applicable to all characters throughout the book. In particular‚ the character‚ Gogol Ganguli‚ which the book is based around‚ is born in America to Bengali parents‚ who immigrated from India. Gogol’s confusion over his cultural identity impacts his life choices‚ consequently‚ impacting the connection he has with his family. Bengali culture
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Tommy Tran English 4 1/6/14 The Namesake Jump Lahiri used woman as a literary device‚ “foil”‚ in her novel The Namesake to help contrast with the protagonist‚ Nikhil “Gogol” Ganguli in order to shape his identity. There were quite a few women that came and went through Gogol’s life span in the novel but three essential women were his mother‚ a woman by the name Maxine‚ and his first wife‚ Moushumi. The literary device that is being used allows the women to either be completely different‚ or
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account of the Ganguli family‚ an Indian American family of educated‚ middle-class Bengali immigrants. Torn between two cultures and two worlds‚ the Ganguli ’s live in Suburban Massachusetts. Ashoke and Ashimi Ganguli have two children‚ Gogol and Sonia. The caste system in India impacts the lives of Ashoke and Ashimi‚ whose marriage is arranged‚ but in suburban Massachusetts such distinctions are undermined through the common ties of class and ethnicity. Nonetheless‚ for Gogol Ganguli‚ born in Massachusetts
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