Throughout the movie issues with parents‚ partners‚ different cultures and death all play a key role in purveying the messages the director wanted to get across. When the Ganguli family has to move from India to New York we see how relationships change and how Ashima has to change in order to adapt to the American lifestyle. Gogol who is Ashima’s son first started having a relationship outside his culture and without the backing from his parents with a wealthy white girl‚ Max. In the Bengali culture
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them will always be in the same place. The main character‚ Gogol (aka Nikhil)‚ is a first-generation Indian who seems to only care about his life/future and wants nothing to do with his heritage. We are taken through his life long journey up until the end where he truly finds meaning in his life. Gogol’s definition of home changes throughout The Namesake as he experiences the world when he journeys off on his own. In the beginning Gogol finds himself despising his Indian heritage and doesn’t want
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Most people struggle‚ some does not. The question of identity is especially difficult for immigrants and their coming generations since they have different cultures and different views. In the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the main character Gogol struggles with his cultural identity due to the ideological difference between him and his parents on the concept of name. According to Bengali naming traditions‚ everyone has two names‚ a pet name and a good name. The good name is for the public
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film “Namesake” that we viewed in class depicts the story of two young newlywed Indian immigrants who moved from Calcutta‚ India to settle in the United States of Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Initially‚ the story begins to pick up pace when their son Gogol & his little sister Sonia is born during the first couple of years of their parents marriage where you notice the cultural differences among the Indian and American culture. In most western countries it is acceptable for parents to allow their
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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 of the author of a book he had been reading on a train prior to its crash
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The character Gogol in the book The Namesake is a dynamic character. Gogol is a dynamic because of many reasons‚ the most evident being his attitude to his family. Gogol’s attitude and feeling toward his family is a great example of Gogol being a dynamic character because he is always having thoughts of how embarrassing his family is as well as just disregarding his parents’ concern and love for him‚ but sadly his father passes away and he becomes more appreciative of his family and more home
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struggles of the first-generation immigrants to assert a western identity‚ as well as to maintain rich eastern traditions. It also explores the challenges faced by the children‚ being second-generation immigrants‚ as represented by the main character‚ Gogol‚ who attempts to shed the Bengali identity to fully embody the American status. Yet‚ the journey towards re-invention and self-discovery finally teaches him the value of family‚ one’s roots and cultural pride. This study concludes that this novel reflects
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boy named Gogol Ganguli. Gogol’s name is very different compared to everyone else and he has struggles with having a different/unique name. When I first started reading the book in class‚ Gogol’s name really stuck out to me. The reason being because of how unique it was. I feel bad about how Gogol had struggles with his name because I felt that everyone should love their name‚ no matter what anyone else thinks about it. Now‚ I don’t personally have a different/unique first name such as Gogol‚ but my
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whole different lifestyle than her life in he home country. Coming from India to America for her husband’s education‚ having a baby in America‚ and having to cope with her mother’s illness and father’s death‚ while being in another country‚ Ashima Ganguli proves to be a strong woman. When Ashima is at the hospital‚ she hears a man say “[He] loves you‚ sweet heart”‚ to is wife (3). Ashima never expects this affection to happen between Ashoke and herself‚ since she had an arranged marriage and does
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in his life. So often people try to forget what makes them who they are what makes them different what makes them special. Culture‚ although it can’t be taken away it can be very easily forgotten and lost to history‚ Gogol doesn’t learn this lesson until later on in life. When Gogol was younger he listens to what his parent said but didn’t really like to embrace the part of himself that was from Bengali. For example when he goes to school and he says “He is afraid to be Nikhil‚ someone he doesn’t
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