Ashoke. As for Gogol‚ the tragic event brought back the love for the family. For instance‚ when Maxine proposed that Gogol leaves as soon as possible‚ Gogol responds‚ “I don’t want to get away‚” (Lahiri 182). Had Ashoke not died‚ Gogol would still be ignoring the family and continuing blissfully with Maxine. The situation made Gogol realize why the family is important‚ and that family won’t be there forever. One day Gogol’s family will dwindle‚ and Ashoke’s death brought back the love Gogol had neglected
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to achieve a sense of belonging amongst her peers. Gogol misperceives how others perceive him‚ generated from his lack of understanding of his place in the world due to his unusual name. During a class trip to a cemetery in his earlier years‚ Gogol cannot find his name on any of the headstones and is confronted with the fact that his name is unique. Contrasted to the generic American names of his friends‚ “Colin and Jason and Marc”‚ Gogol perceives his name only highlights his cultural differences
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and a dak nam‚ a nickname used for family and close friends (26). Although Gogol Nikhil Ganguli is a Bengali‚ he isn’t your average typical one; the whole pet name (Gogol) vs. his good name (Nikhil) sets forth a battle within his mind causing himself to alienate him from those who care about him the most. In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the theme of identity crisis gets played a lot throughout the novel. When Gogol first starts school‚ his father tries to persuade him to go by his good name
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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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others will think. Otherwise‚ the world would be insanely uninteresting. “The Namesake‚” by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ is about a boy called by the unique name of Gogol Ganguli. When he was young‚ Gogol was oblivious to the differences in his name to socially-normal-names‚ but as he grew up‚ he began to notice them. The story is about a significant event where Gogol realizes just how unique his name is. In “The Namesake‚” Jhumpa Lahiri develops the theme that it is okay to be unique through family influence‚ interaction
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First‚ to understand Gogol’s background the reader was shown the perspective of not just Gogol‚ but Ashima and Ashoke. They had to culturally force themselves to satisfy their customs in a place far away
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________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why does Gogol go to Cleveland? What does he do there? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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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and traditions‚ but when you have to balance both‚ it’s difficult to figure out who you truly are. Gogol grows up throughout the book with a Hindu-Indian family while living in America. He confronts the challenge of assimilating while trying to pursue two cultures. As he gets older‚ he then tries to find his identity by changing his name from Gogol to Nikhil and starts different relationships. But Gogol then realized that what has held him and his family together has been the Indian culture‚ which has
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importance of such events is not in the situations themselves‚ but in how the person reacts to being in the situation. Such themes are present in literature from all around the globe‚ as evinced by Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie‚” Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Gogol‚” Guy de Maupassant’s “Two Friends‚” and Jorge Luis Borges’ “Rosendo’s Tale.” External societal pressures cause internal conflict in characters by thrusting them into unfavorable situations‚ and these situations force characters to decide whether their
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