and 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
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Overcoat For many centuries‚ social injustice has occurred in society such as inequality between social classes and corrupt government which has affected many people. [Preface] In the text “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol deals with the theme of social realism in 19th century East-European literature. [Main idea] The author wants to portray the realistic social‚ political and personal issues that relate to the struggles of class and the outcomes of the society’s social structure. [Thesis] The
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spatial/domestic construction of immigrant subjectivity (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the role of trauma in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the place of literature in the immigrant narrative (in Lahiri; Ashoke’s obsession with Nikolai Gogol); intersections between Gogol’s The Overcoat and Lahiri’s The Namesake (common themes‚ the question of “finding oneself‚” finding one’s subjectivity); the construction of the immigrant‚ racial “Other” in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri
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Massachusetts. Ashoke and Ashimi Ganguli have two children‚ Gogol and Sonia. The caste system in India impacts the lives of Ashoke and Ashimi‚ whose marriage is arranged‚ but in suburban Massachusetts such distinctions are undermined through the common ties of class and ethnicity. Nonetheless‚ for Gogol Ganguli‚ born in Massachusetts‚ reconciling his ethnic background with American culture presents a crisis of identity. Named after a Russian author‚ Gogol will become "Nikhil" in an attempt to forge an identity
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could not have happened otherwise‚ and that to give him any other name was quite out of the question.” - Nikolai Gogol. This is the epigraph for the Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake‚ for the quote foreshadows a lot of what the novel contains and helps us understand the difference between what we’re being told and what we’re‚ seeing. Jhumpa Lahiri chooses to start with a quote from Nikolai Gogol for it connects to both The Overcoat and The Namesake for names having more meaning than a label. Jhumpa
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Family background: Stanislavski had a privileged youth‚ growing up in one of the richest families in Russia‚ the Alekseyevs.[4] He was born Constantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev – "Stanislavski" was a stage name that he adopted in 1884 in order to keep his performance activities secret from his parents.[5] The prospect of becoming a professional actor was taboo for someone of his social class; actors had an even lower social status in Russia than in the rest of Europe‚ having only recently been serfs and
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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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Projecting thoughts into future is a way of writing that Lahiri applies in various points throughout the book; however‚ the last three pages of the novel are totally based on this writing style. More specifically‚ the writer describes the way of life that Gogol and his mother will have to adopt‚ since she has decided to spend half of the remainder of her life in her homeland‚ far away from her children. Furthermore‚ the reader learns about Gogol’s thoughts and feelings‚ after he has temporarily abandoned
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Gogal ’s famous play about government bureaucracy‚ coruption and deception. A satirical account of Russion Government and society. "The Inspector" Bureaucracy‚ Corruption and Deception-- How Gogol using satire‚ ridicules the bureaucracy of the Russian government through scenes of corruption‚ deception and self-deception. The Mayor’s famous line‚ as he turns to address the audience directly‚ “What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves‚” (p. 120) illustrates this theme‚ which
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