Moving to a different country is never easy and author Jhumpa Lahiri captures this struggle in the astounding book‚ The Namesake. Her words perfectly emulate the struggles each main character— Ashoke‚ Ashima and Gogol face. This book is written in a third person omniscient view which enables readers to look into the intimate thoughts of each character‚ and how they individually handle their ability to balance the Bengali and American culture. Each character’s journey to conform is unique‚ making
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Addressing Challenges of Groups and Teams December 10‚ 2012 LDR 531 Leo Maganares Which methods will be used to present the operational change? According to Cummings and Worley (1997) there is a five-phase process for managing change‚ including: motivating change‚ creating vision‚ developing political support‚ managing the transition‚ and sustaining momentum. Motivating change involves creating a work environment that embraces change and developing approaches to overcome any resistance
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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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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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Study: Belonging AREA OF STUDY: * Explore and examine relationships between language and text and interrelationships among texts. * Synthesize ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings. * Take into account context‚ purpose and register‚ text structures‚ stylistic features‚ grammatical features and vocabulary. * Perceptions and ideas of belonging/not belonging. * Personal‚ historical‚ cultural and social contexts. * Connections made with people‚ places‚ groups‚ communities
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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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Gogol as the Perfect Namesake In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake‚ Indian parents bestow a Russian name to their first born baby boy; the name is Gogol Ganguli which is after the famous Russian writer‚ Nikolai V. Gogol. In Lahiri’s novel‚ the main character fights an identity crisis because of his highly unusual name. Gogol carries uncertainty about himself throughout the novel because of his name‚ “He hates his name . . . that is has nothing to do with who he is‚ that it is neither Indian nor
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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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There are many important elements of organizational behavior in a criminal justice or security agency. These elements of organizational behavior are guidelines to organization hire valuable employees with values‚ morals‚ and ethnics. Commitment to ethical behavior one of the elements among others that will be discuss in this paper. Commitment to ethical behavior is when unethical behavior and illegal business practice in an organization is publicized. This is element that is use in the criminal justice
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to analyse the various issues faced by the immigrants as portrayed in Lahiri’s novel first novel The Namesake. The story of the novel is set in United States‚ Calcutta hovers in the background. . It is out of her experiences of the bizarre identity crisis on the part of those who have remained as immigrants and those who were traumatized by homelessness‚ that the contents of the novel The Namesake were derived. Jhumpa Lahiri admits that as the novel conveys the experiences of alienation of the migrants
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