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    The Namesake

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    THE NAMESAKE REVIEW TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS AND THE HYBRID CULTURAL PHENOMENA PREFACE The namesake is a touching story narrating the life of an Indian couple that migrated to the United States during the last 25 years of the 20th century. I was inspired by the profound and warm touch of how the author deliberately telling story. The beautiful language and the thoughtful phrases the author used in weaving the efforts of the immigrants‚ the happiness they try to build in their new living environment

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    The Namesame

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    ISBN 0-618-48522-8 (pbk.) ISBN 0-395-92721-8 1. Young men—Fiction. 2. Massachusetts—Fiction. 3. East Indian Americans—Fiction. 4. Children of immigrants —Fiction. 5. Assimilation (Sociology)—Fiction. 6. Alienation (Social psychology) —Fiction. 7. GogolNikolai Vasilievich‚ 1809-1852—Appreciation— Fiction. 1. Title. ps3562.a3i6n36 2003 813’.54—dc2i 2003041718 Printed in the United States of America Book design by Melissa Lotfy DOC 40 39 38 37 36 35 A portion of this book appeared in slightly different

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    Sitcoms Analysis

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    The two sitcoms that I am going to compare are: -Absolutely Fabulous which is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders. It was based on an original idea by her and Dawn French and was written by Saunders‚ who plays the leading character. -The Royle Family which is a British television sitcom produced by Granada Productions for the BBC‚ which ran for three series between 1998 and 2000. Absolutely Fabulous is an example of character interplay sitcom. Two main characters are:  Edina "Eddy" Monsoon

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    1. How does space perform? Space is shown as a vital factor in the directorial connection linking the performance and the audience. A live performance is established in a three-dimensional space. The research of any time of theatre history can show you that there has‚ and always will be‚ a manufactured advancement of the space in the theatre whether this be both traditional and informal. In every single case‚ “the audience member‚ the spectator‚ becomes part of the performance‚ and is therefore

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    Shostakovich Analysis

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    A Yurodivy‚ or holy fool‚ is a person who purposefully “appears unintelligent and unsophisticated” in order to portray injustices going on around them‚ according to Oxford Dictionary Online. This word comes from Soviet Russia‚ and represents Shostakovich well. When Shostakovich lived‚ he seemed to represent the communist party and everything it stood for. After he died‚ his official obituary in Soviet newspapers showed him as a “faithful son of the Communist Party” (Pravda‚ 1975). However‚ his

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    Lit2020 Midterm Review Guide

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    - Read every single story - go over all notes on blackboard - no questions on “regionalism” on test - Don’t look at “real thing” discussion questions - know 3 waves of feminism - Romanticism: earliest‚ full of feeling and emotion. Not just romantic. Exaggeration of feelings; fear‚ aw‚ love‚ etc. - Realism: CHOICE; the narrator has a moral choice. - Naturalism: narrator has lack of choice; he is forced. -Modernism: uncertainty. Week 1 both Week 2 both Week 3 both Week 4 both

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    Throughout the story Gogol feels pressured by his parents to follow the Bengali culture‚ to marry a Bengali girl‚ to eat Bengali food and to live the Bengali lifestyle. Myself being of the South Asian decent‚ I can relate to Gogol as well. My parents expect me to marry a Sri Lankan boy because they believe a Sri Lankan boy can make me happy. They also want to continue to pass down our culture to newer generations. This quote foreshadows the breakup that is going to happen between Gogol and Moushumi because

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    their adopted home. Gogol‚ their son‚ however‚ was born in the United States and is somewhat embarrassed by his parents Bengalese practices. Gogol is also uncomfortable with his name. It is neither a Bengalese nor an American name. No one he knows has a name like his. In school‚ kids make fun of it. But the conflict goes deeper than that. The Namesake 1 Gogol’s father tries to explain why he gave that name to his first-born child‚ but Gogol could not care less. Gogol‚ in his attempts to

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    The Namesake Culture

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    your identity? In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gogol is caught in the midst of colliding cultures and responds by adapting to the host culture‚ the American culture. Throughout Gogol’s life‚ he faces an identification crisis and a crisis in balancing between the Bengali and American culture. Gogol slowly moves to the American culture and erases majority of his Bengali lifestyle and culture. In Gogol’s first few years in the American society‚ Gogol already had trouble with his colliding cultures

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    Namesake‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gogol is the son of Bengali parents‚ and has many different experiences trying to fit into American culture. At the beginning‚ Gogol didn’t really care about his name when he was a child. But then in his teenage years all he cared about was being called Nikhil. Towards the end‚ Gogol starts to praise his name. Gogol was born in North America to Bengali parents. His parents try to keep some of the Indian traditions‚ although it’s difficult. Gogol is always trying to fit in

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