Quote 1 They’ve learned their lesson after Gogol. They’ve learned that schools in America will ignore parents’ instructions and register a child under his pet name. The only way to avoid such confusion‚ they have concluded‚ is to do away with the pet name altogether‚ as many of their Bengali friends have done. (3.56) Poor Gogol. As the first born‚ he’s the guinea pig for Ashoke and Ashima. The lessons they learn from raising him prepare them for the challenges of raising their second child‚ who
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Belonging Speech Belonging is having a feeling of connectedness‚ or acceptance to other people‚ places or groups. This enables us to create a sense of identity for ourselves and helps us feel as though we ‘fit in’. In the following texts; Novel‚ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ film‚ Bend it Like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha and the song‚ Teenagers by My Chemical Romance; we can see links between the texts and how the characters feel a sense of belonging and not belonging. In the first text The
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History Essay: Why Stalin Not Trotsky Stalin’s race to become the all mighty ruler fully started after Lenin died of a stroke on the 21st of January 1924. With Lenin gone‚ Stalin started to eliminate the other members of the Communist Party: Trotsky‚ Zinoviev‚ Kamenev‚ Rykov‚ Tomsky and Bukharin. He very cleverly switched between the left wing and the right wing‚ by making alliances with one wing the suddenly breaking with them‚ only to join the other wing‚ going against everything that they had
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"I believe in one thing only‚ the power of human will" said Stalin once. He certainly did have cause to believe in the power of a human’s will as he experienced it in himself firsthand‚ having had extraordinary willpower and perseverance (He didn’t call himself "Man of Steel" for nothing‚ folks)‚ rising up from the lowly station of alcoholic’s son in Georgia to one of the biggest monsters in human history‚ supposedly killing more than Hitler. Exactly how did he do this? Why? And how did his corruption
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Stalin’s Russia‚ 1924-53 The leadership struggle * Russia wasn’t a democracy * Struggle wasn’t about winning popularity with the people * Influence was very important * Lenin was leader as party respected him could count on the loyalty of most party members The contenders: Leon Trotsky * Most obvious contender * Heroism during revolution and Civil War * Organised October Revolution and commanded Red Army * 1917-22 Lenin’s right-hand man * Radicalism‚ strong
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Under The Overcoat The story‚ “The Overcoat”‚ shows how the main character gets attached to an item physically and emotionally. Throughout the story‚ problems relating to class and longing for objects are portrayed in the story. Akaky‚ the main protagonist of the story‚ showed many of his problems such as class and his longing for his stolen overcoat. The overcoat is: the personification of Akaky‚ the materialization of his class status and an agent of change. The overcoat is related to Akaky
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Gogol’s The Overcoat: A Whisper of Change At first glance of Nikolay Gogol’s novel The Overcoat‚ one would only see a short story about a poor man wishing to survive in a cruel world. However‚ in looking further into the story‚ deep symbolism can be found. Gogol lived in Russia during the rise of the communist party‚ and was a great dissident of communism. He believed the inevitable end of a communist government was total failure. He also criticized the other government of the world for failing
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There are many factors that affected people to be what they are now. In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gogol‚ the main character‚ developed from a child attached to his family to a teenager that often rejects his parents and their Bengali culture. As a young boy‚ he was very close to his parents‚ especially his mother‚ and would listen to them‚ but as he grew up‚ it eventually changed. He wasn’t as close to his parents as he was when he was at a young age. He rejected his family and his culture because
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The final scene of ‘The Namesake’ is an emotionally significant scene because of the poignant references‚ the language and the issues addressed. This passage clarifies the novel’s status as a “Bildungsroman”. Sympathy and affection is created for Gogol‚ making the tone of this final passage pensive and sentimental. It delivers the climax where Gogol is finally able to find balance in issues that had been bothering him throughout the novel. One of the key concerns dealt with in this passage is the
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Both Gogol and Lu Xun “Diary of a Madman” provided the social problems that occur in their society‚ during their own respective times by using a diary written by a lunatic. Even though these two stories were written with a similar structure‚ they both showed the problem of society by portraying them trough a madman’s experience of society. Gogol uses the diary to revel the difficulties of Russia’s social order. On the other hand‚ Lu Xun perspective of the story revels that china’s traditions could
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