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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Marissa Cavanaugh For countless years‚ women have been subject to follow tradition and those who break that tradition would suffer the consequences. However‚ in literature‚ there are female characters who have the strength to overcome and break tradition. For instance‚ the main character and protagonist‚ Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s novel‚ The Awakening‚ and the main character‚ Dominique Francon‚ in Ayn Rand’s novel‚ The Fountainhead‚ refuse to conform to what is societies view of tradition
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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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1. Explain how the relationship between Ashoke‚ Ashima‚ and Gogol develops throughout the novel. The theme of the relationship between parents and children becomes prominent‚ as Gogol grows old enough to interact with his parents as a child. During his young adulthood‚ Gogol is impatient with his parents and they‚ likewise‚ feel unable to relate to their American children. Gogol begins to feel tender toward his father after his death. He now understands the guilt and uselessness his parents had
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“Feminism is no longer a term that’s used to enable or empower women” by Hill Clinton. The story is told by the narrator’s perspective‚ who is a woman of sensitive temper‚ and she is also a writer. She has been ill‚ and her illness has placed her in a weak position in relation to dominant John. As her husband and as her physician‚ John makes all of the narrator’s decisions for her‚ which really aggravates her‚ since she wants to be an individual. In the beginning‚ the narrator dreadfully wanted to
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That is‚ one is constantly recognized by the people and by oneself with his name‚ and the name consciously and unconsciously keeps influencing one’s identity as the name directly relates to how one perceives the world and oneself. In a novel‚ The Namesake‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ this power of name is well depicted through the identity crisis of the son of an Indian immigrants family‚ the Ganguli. Gogol Ganguli‚ the son of Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli‚ struggles with his dual identity due to two different
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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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ENG 101 Professor Fisher 04/26/12 Space & Identity The story The Namesake‚ which was quickly made into a movie‚ consists of challenges that every character faces through their surroundings and their ability to adapt unto change. Each character in The Namesake obtains challenges from inhabiting or the desire to inhabit spaces‚ which define them by how they react to these situations. This paper will describe the characters actions and identities and their surroundings unto change as
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culture. Many of those involved in diasporic situations feel that adapting to the social norms of their new surroundings is an act of betraying their roots in which their heritage and 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
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