Around the world‚ people struggle with many things like drugs and depression. The film adaptation of The Namesake starts with Ashima and Ashoke getting marry and adpadting to the American culture. Later on‚ they would have two kids named Sonia and Gogol. Gogol the main protagonist of the film doesn’t understand why his father gave him the name Gogol. Throughout the film‚ Gogol struggle to find his identify and he started to change throughout the movie. First‚ Gogol was immature in early if the film
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Children “As we age‚ we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time” something that 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
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The book The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is a classic novel that does an impeccable job of describing the problems of being wedged between his native culture and American culture along with various religious and ideological differences. The novel comprises of various characters‚ but the book revolves around Gogol/ Nikhil‚ the protagonist of the story. Gogol is an American Indian‚ who lives with his family in Boston. He moves on to several other places as he grows up. Gogol is a perfect example of reinvention
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condition which empowers an individual for better or sometimes for worse. An individual’s perceptions of belonging evolve in response to the passage of time and interaction with their world. It is a condition which is portrayed through the novel the Namesake‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ and the cult movie The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes which encapsulate the struggles and journey’s of both feelings through the passage of time. In the literary text the dynamic characters illuminate the idea and challenges
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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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Tone: Sympathetic Genre: Growing Up‚ Family Drama Themes: Identity: In The Namesake‚ everybody is seems lost under various terms . Every character struggles with his or her identity‚ as they feel allured by the different cultures‚ traditions‚ and personal ambition. Gogol‚ in particular‚ is torn between two cultures – the Indian traditions of his parents and the modern American culture in which he grows up. His struggle is the same one that his sister Sonia goes through. It’s also related to the
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Home is where the heart is; somewhere you live no matter where you physically are. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ several characters are living in one place while simultaneously living somewhere else. Lahiri uses this tug-of-war technique to strengthen her belief that immigrants living in America struggle to wholly accept one society. Lahiri focuses on Ashima and Gogol’s difficulties coming to terms with which place they choose to accept as home. Additionally‚ both characters express undeniable
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they are god’s gift‚ something truly miraculous. A person’s own family is the greatest wealth that one can ever possess but it is upon an individual to realize the true worth of the love and blessings that his own family has to offer them. In “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri” Gogol’s drastic journey to adulthood filled with unexpected and emotional experiences makes him eventually realize the importance of family in his life. In Gogol’s early twenties all he thought about was to get away from his family
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Summary A year after Ashoke’s death‚ Gogol is studying for his registration exam that will allow him to be a licensed architect practicing in New York. He has broken up with Maxine a few months after Ashoke’s death‚ and now she is engaged to someone else. Sonia is still living in the house on Pemberton Road with their mother‚ who spends her nights awake and lonely‚ watching TV in bed. One night‚ Gogol agrees to go out with the other students in the class he is taking to prepare for his registration
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Beige Pascua THEA 32 “The Namesake” The Namesake is a film that has both visible and invisible sounds. The different sounds are used to portray different emotions in the film. In the beginning of the film we see Gogol’s father on a train when all of a sudden we hear the train screech but we do not see the actual action of the train getting into a wreck. This is what we call invisible sound‚ when you can hear a sound but not see the origin of where the sound is coming from. We also hear invisible
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