Ganguli family in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake has a problem. The mother and father are traditional Bengalese from Calcutta‚ and they are not particularly interested in assimilating into the United States‚ 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
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Wallace English III 2nd Period Mrs. Kaplan The Namesake The Namesake‚ written by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ has been dubbed one of The New York Times Bestellers and a follow-up of Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize debut‚ Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri’s specific style towards Gogol’s life makes it easy for an audience to understand the troubles of being raised in an Indian household surrounded by an American society. However‚ would The Namesake still be on The New York Times Bestseller list if it
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The Namesake is a novel that was written by Lahiri in 2003. “Though substitute teachers at school always pause‚ looking apologetic when they arrive at his name on the roster‚ forcing Gogol to call out‚ before even being summoned‚ “That’s me‚” teachers in the school system not to give it a second thought. After a year or two‚ the students no longer tease….p.66-67” that shows the difficulties that Gogol face with his name at the school and how his teachers and his classmates found that pronouncing
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Opposing American culture later in life after a split with Maxine‚ Gogol turns to a longtime family acquaintance‚ Moushumi Mazoomdar‚ who later becomes his wife after a quick marriage. Moushumi’s parents are also from Bengal creating a familiar feeling as both Gogol and Moushumi feel torn between their two backgrounds. Gogol is intrigued with Moushumi after their first arranged date together believing that‚ “her very familiarity that makes him curious about her” and becoming “lost in his own thoughts
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BELONGING The concept of Belonging is a multi-layered concept‚ particularly in the novel "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ the news article "Burqas and Fries" by Erika Hayasaki and the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. A person’s sense of belonging is determined by the relationships they share with themselves and other people. Whether it’s family‚ friends or society in general‚ humans have a desire to belong and be an important part of something greater than themselves. The ideology
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people claim that a person’s cultural identity is the foundation or groundwork on which every other aspect of their being is built” (No Bullying). That describes exactly what Gogol in the novel‚ The Namesake‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri is trying to discover about himself through his name. Almost every aspect of this novel have to do with Gogol and his journey with his companions and family to find his sense of belonging through his culture. Lahiri uses the manipulation of time in this novel in order to positively
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Initial Explication In the short story “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol‚ the ability of the affluent to indulge in material comfort leads to their neglect of the suffering lower-class‚ leaving the poor to fend for themselves in a world filled with crime and environmental discomfort. On page 932‚ Gogol’s imagery of various aspects of the night out in St. Petersburg conveys both Akaky’s harsh‚ cold‚ and desolate reality as well as the luxurious lifestyle of the well-to-do. In order to travel to the
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Interpreters of Maladies which won for her the coveted Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Namesake is her first novel and has been followed by Unaccustomed Earth‚ another collection of short- stories. It has been one of the best-sellers and has been named as the ‘Best Book of the Year’ (2003) by the USA Today. Based on this novel‚ the film of the same name directed by Mira Nair was released in February‚ 2007. Lahiri’s The Namesake‚ explores many issues and aspects of immigrant families in an alien milieu‚ but
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Climate change is rapidly becoming the largest and most complex challenge facing the world today. The politics‚ along with climate change skeptics associated with this rising danger‚ continues to sabotage efforts to curb and control this environmental crisis. As large hurricanes‚ catastrophic floods‚ and colossal earthquakes obliterate entire nations around the world‚ the need of the hour is for the various factions to reconcile their differences and come together to deescalate the effects climate
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