“The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol The story “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol is about Akakii Akakievich and his simple job of copying papers for a department. Akakii led a very simple life and not many people would talk to him or even pay him much attention. However‚ his life changes when he purchases a new overcoat. This overcoat gave Akakii the motivation and confidence he needed to get out into the world. Even before Akakii’s coat was made‚ it still had a positive influence on him. He needed
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The pages of The Namesake drift across decades effortlessly‚ and suck the reader into the daily lives of two generations: the immigrants: Ashoke and Ashima‚ and their children: Gogol and Sonia. Naturally‚ it is also a chronicle of all their romantic relationships. As we witness their lives unfold before our eyes‚ we see love go right‚ and quite often‚ wrong. This allows for an analysis of the finer details of their personalities‚ their backgrounds‚ and how they affect their endeavors in the new
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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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Spring 2011 THE COMIC SPIRIT CWL 320I-01 (#4996) MW 800-915am (MM-100) Course Description The Comic Spirit is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary introduction to the theory of comedy and history of comic forms. Literary works of various types‚ national literary traditions‚ and historical periods will be considered‚ as will other kinds of comic art‚ especially that of modern film. In all cases‚ particular emphasis will be given to the historical circumstance and the intellectual
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the Russian authors his grandfather told him to read. In 1961‚ as he was taking the train from Calcutta to Jamshedpur to get the books his grandfather was giving him‚ the train crashed and he almost died. He was reading a Russian author name Nikolai Gogol when the train derailed; he was found by workers and survived only because he had the page in his hand. He decided to go to engineering school in the U.S. against his family’s wishes. The next morning the baby is born and Ashima and Ashok want to
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giving preference to ethnic rituals and cuisine‚ first generation immigrant want to recreate fragmented past in the present along with nostalgia. So‚ ethnic cuisine hardly arouses his senses. “….Food is one of the chief planes upon which the young Gogol and his sister Sonia work to define themselves against their Bengali heritage. They insist on pizza and Coke. Dining rituals often provide a framework that reflects and expresses human desires and behaviors. Ultimately
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characterisation of Gogol (the main protagonist of the story) and the symbolic nature of his name. Contrasting Gogol’s adult life to his adolescence‚ his sense of belonging is never as natural‚ innocent or playful. Gogol has to work towards achieving a feeling of belonging and to understand himself as a person. Torn between his Bengali and American culture because of his name‚ his struggle with his cultural identity causes him to gain a sense of alienation. In the event where Gogol attends an ABCD meeting
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quills for His Excellency (Gogol 183). Aside from that‚ the man in the story mentioned that people during his time wore capes with long collars‚ but he wore capes with the short collars. As the days went by‚ the clerk realized how meaningless his job was. Aside from sharpening his employer’s quills‚ he was also tasked with copying the information of the different departments. His simple work made him realized how people treated him without kindness and courtesy (Gogol). People never listened to him
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It is no accident that the name that is attributed to the heroine in a number of Russian novels of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is named after some derivation of the name Elizabeth. Karamzin is the first to revere this name in his work Poor Liza and it is this work that sets off a chain reaction that causes the occurrence of subsequent characters in Russian literature. This character can particularly be found in works such as Pushkin’s Queen of Spades‚ Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit‚ and
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Tales of the Diaspora When VS Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in 2001‚ he said: “It is a great tribute to England‚ my home‚ and India‚ the land of my ancestors…” It is a heritage he shares with Jhumpa Lahiri‚ who was born in London and immigrated to America with her Indian-born parents. “While I am American by virtue of the fact that I was raised in this country‚ I am Indian thanks to the efforts of two individuals‚” she said‚ referring to her parents‚ in an interview with Newsweek in 2006. They have
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