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    Julia Golubenko Mrs. Greenfield Close Reading and Critical Writing November 13‚ 2007 The movie Namesake was a fairly good depiction of the book. As a movie‚ apart from the book‚ it was good. The characters played their role well‚ emotional scenes were shown‚ and the point of the movie was easy to see. The problems that I had with the movie‚ was the fact that they cut out Gogol’s whole college life and Ruth‚ his first girlfriend. This was taking out a huge part of his life‚ where Gogol actually chose

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    The Name Sake Movie Comparison- The Name Sake movie took place in both India and America. The differences between India and America are blatantly prevalent throughout the entire film. There are differences shown in culture‚ behavior‚ scenery and more. Although there are many differences shown throughout the movie‚ there are some similarities as well. The differences shown in the movie begin appearing when the father is in a cramped train with a huge lack of personal space‚ where as in America

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    The film I have chosen is “The Namesake” by Jhumpra Lahiri. A traditional Bengali Indian family‚ the Ganguli’s‚ are moving to New England and are trying to stay engulfed in their unique cultural identity. Ashoke Ganguli brings his new wife‚ Ashima‚ to a strange new world‚ leaving her lonely and confused of a culture outside of her own. Ashima needs to learn to love a man she does not know‚ to customize herself to a country she is unfamiliar with‚ and to hold true to her values in a culture foreign

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    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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    Chapter 7 A. General Understanding How does Ashima learn of her husband’s death? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why does Gogol go to Cleveland? What does he do there? __________________________________________________________________________

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    Tommy Tran English 4 1/6/14 The Namesake Jump Lahiri used woman as a literary device‚ “foil”‚ in her novel The Namesake to help contrast with the protagonist‚ Nikhil “Gogol” Ganguli in order to shape his identity. There were quite a few women that came and went through Gogol’s life span in the novel but three essential women were his mother‚ a woman by the name Maxine‚ and his first wife‚ Moushumi. The literary device that is being used allows the women to either be completely different‚ or

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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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    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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    Why is naming so important? • For Gogol‚ his name is a source of embarrassment and for his father it is more of salvation • His name is the start of his family traditions‚ but he eventually does not follow any of the traditions Does your name identify who you are? • A person’s name is an identifier and may end up being more than just a name • A name may connect with something else (like naming after a grandparent to represent them) – Gogol’s name represents his father’s close to death experience

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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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