Lahiri divulges various facets of Ashima’s character‚ and also shows her strengths and weaknesses‚ in her book‚ The Namesake. Lahiri is telling her readers that the role of Ashima in the Indian culture is to get married‚ but not boy choice‚ bear a child‚ and to take care of the child while her husband provides the funds. Lahiri is also trying to get the readers to understand that Ashima’s life in America is a whole different lifestyle than her life in he home country. Coming from India to America
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Nikol Al Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat” creates a hyper-realistic world that contains evidence of marvelous elements. By doing so‚ Gogol constructed an ongoing conflict between the real and the supernatural. awakens; thus the paradox is left for the reader to solve. Tzvetan Todorov‚ copying‚ stated in his book The Fantastic‚ "the fantastic . . . lasts only as long as a certain hesitation common to reader and character‚ who must decide whether or not what they perceive derives from “reality” as
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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 Namesake In the book‚ The 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
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all preexisting traditions will be lost. Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake highlights this struggle through the eyes of the Ganguli family. The novel ultimately shows us that one can simultaneously belong to two cultures‚ in this case Indian and American culture. Many scholars are hung up on the fact that protagonist Gogol must belong to one culture or the other. Heinze’s “Diasporic Overcoat?” suggests that Gogol puts on an “overcoat” through the switching of his name to represent the switching of
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Riley Quinlan Professor Sapra ENGWR 301 13 May 2017 Namesake The Namesake‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ tells the story of a Bengali-Indian family who tries their best to fit into the American culture. The mother and father‚ Ashima and Ashoke‚ are the parents of a newborn baby boy‚ who struggle to name their child after a failed telegram attempt to the Ashima’s grandmother who had the honor of naming him. The parents decide on the name of Gogol‚ based on Ashoke’s literary idol. Throughout Gogol’s life he betrays
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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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Matt. J. Sociology The Namesake A Bengali girl named Ashima partakes in a marriage arranged to Ashoke Ganguli. After the ceremony the new couple left India to move to the United States where Ashoke has started to build a new life. They were going to face the cultural differences together‚ as one. For Ashima‚ this was difficult. Her new husband had to earn a living to support the two of them so she often found herself home alone. Not knowing the English language or culture at that became very
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In the book The Namesake‚ there is a boy named Gogol Ganguli. Gogol’s name is very different compared to everyone else and he has struggles with having a different/unique name. When I first started reading the book in class‚ Gogol’s name really stuck out to me. The reason being because of how unique it was. I feel bad about how Gogol had struggles with his name because I felt that everyone should love their name‚ no matter what anyone else thinks about it. Now‚ I don’t personally have a different/unique
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The Namesake showcases a boy named Gogol who culturally different from the rest of society‚ and undergoes numerous life changing situations. A namesake is a person named after another. The namesake in this novel being Gogol and the author of the Overcoat‚ Nikolai Gogol but to why his father chose this name and this namesake is a mystery to Gogol Ganguli. Symbolism‚ something used quite commonly throughout the novel‚ in which it shows two major symbols. These being the name “Gogol” and trains‚ all
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