Journal #1 The Namesake begins with Ashima cooking in the kitchen when she starts having contractions; Ashima and her husband Ashok take a taxi to the hospital to deliver the baby. Ashok has to leave his wife surrounded by nurses so he could go to work. A nice nurse named Patty brought her lunch and took her on a walk around the hospital to help with the pregnancy. This walk reminded Ashima of the day she and Ashok were introduced by their parents. She remembers slipping her feet into his shoes
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But she undergoes a drastic change in her attitude. She is not the same person as she was in the beginning of the story: “She feels overwhelmed by the thought of the move she is about to make‚ to the city that was once home and is now in its own way foreign. She feels both impatience
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Aody Rafati Dr. Jodi Melamed Eng 2010 12/11/2014 Cultural Identity in The Namesake The Namesake illustrates several elements of transition that are common to the stories of immigrant families and their children. As shown in the film‚ the first generation connects with their cultural identity and roots to a far greater degree and density than their children do. The second generation exists between two realities of culture including their ethnic heritage and the world they live in presently
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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 Lahiri connects
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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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Gogol’s Namesake: Identity and Relationships in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Author: Judith Caesar Allusions to Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The Overcoat" permeate Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ beginning with Gogol’s being the name the protagonist is called through most of the book. Yet few of the reviewers of the novel mentioned Nikolai Gogol at all in their discussions of the novel‚ except to describe the protagonist Gogol’s loathing of his name‚ or to quote without comment or
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There is never one main character that is the cause of every aspect of the story; secondary characters are just as important. In the case of the Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Ashoke plays an important part of the overall work being a secondary character. Not only does Ashoke’s crash in the train launch the events leading up to the upbringing of the family‚ but Ashoke’s death also unifies the family and allows the family to grow. The accident with the train brought up within the first pages of the
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The Namesake The movie The Namesake explored many issues with regards to culture and the relationships in which we create within different cultures. Throughout the movie issues with parents‚ partners‚ different cultures and death all play a key role in purveying the messages the director wanted to get across. When the Ganguli family has to move from India to New York we see how relationships change and how Ashima has to change in order to adapt to the American lifestyle. Gogol who is Ashima’s
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The Namesake wrote this story from personal experiences and does a tremendous job showing how a person can move on with their life but the people who truly love them will always be in the same place. The main character‚ Gogol (aka Nikhil)‚ is a first-generation Indian who seems to only care about his life/future and wants nothing to do with his heritage. We are taken through his life long journey up until the end where he truly finds meaning in his life. Gogol’s definition of home changes throughout
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imaginative yet distinctly real‚ Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake emotionally captivates the reader as it explores the cultural‚ generational‚ and personal conflicts faced by Gogol Ganguli‚ the son of Indian-American immigrants. As a young man‚ his father‚ Ashoke‚ nearly died in a train accident‚ breaking multiple bones in his lower body and temporarily developing paralysis. Before it occurred‚ he was reading an anthology of stories by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol‚ and later‚ when rescue teams arrived‚ Ashoke
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