The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri

Arwa Ghanim English 1A March 30, 2015 The Namesake Introduction The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri, has a wide range of topics that are brought upon the peruser all through the book and motion picture. A few subjects that are identified with this story are Identity, Relationships in the middle of youngsters and their guardians, Regret, Loneliness, Language, Expectations, Cultural Differences, Immigrant Experience, Values and Beliefs, and Death and Mourning. Thesis Statement What moment or decision

The choices one makes dictates the life they lead. In her novel The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri reflects on the world of the Ganguli family. One particular character, Gogol Ganguli becomes the main focus as Lahiri takes us through his assimilation process, and how he tries to achieve the goal of being socially accepted. Lahiri illustrates the development of Gogol’s quest for his true cultural identity through his personal struggles: his name, his romantic relationships, and his father’s untimely death

For some people finding out who they are is not exactly the hardest thing to do in the world, some know it from the moment they are born. There are, however, also other people who have to struggle and search for their identities. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is the story of a boy who does just that. It focuses on the Ganguli’s, a Bengali family, who, after moving homes from India to the United States, struggle to uphold a delicate balance between honoring the traditions of their heritage and assimilating

“I’m Nikhil” (Jhumpa Lahiri 96) these are the words that Gogol uttered for the first time in his life. The theme of name and identity in Lahiri’s novel the Namesake is obvious. Which is used throughout the novel. In the first chapter Ashima recalls that she never “calls out for her husband”. An important theme of name and identity is introduced in the first chapter when Ashima calls her husband but not by name. Bengali tradition is one of many that relates to the importance of a mans name

easy thing to discover, and it is forever changing and growing. The search for one’s identity is not a painless journey, but it is often worth it in the end. As is the case for Gogol Ganguli, one of the main protagonists in the novel The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri. Throughout the novel, Gogol is in search for his identity and for meaning behind his name. Names were a large struggle for Gogol, who spent about half of the novel under the name Nikhil. He even ended up developing a bit of a split personality

Similarities Between Jhumpa Lahiri’s parents and Ashima and Ashoke in the Namesake In the novel The red and the black, Stendahl the French author states, “A novel is a mirror that walks along a path ”. He believes that a novel doesn’t just come from imagination, but authors generally write based on their own life experience. In the novel the Namesake, the author Jhumpa Lahiri uses the characters of Ashima and Ashoke to present the life of a couple of immigrants from India, living in the United States

other person where you communicate with your first native language; you interact with family regularly with manners, traditions and culture. It 's really difficult to have two identities and do not know who you really are, in the book "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri author, demonstrates the theme of how hard it is to find an identity in America. The protagonist of the book Gogol, during his childhood went through many difficult stages related to his identity and find himself like another characters

Karan Gandhi Ms. Chuntz English 11 Honors 4 December 2017 The NameSake Expository Essay In the Namesake written by Jhumpa Lahiri, America is often referred to as the land of opportunity despite how foreign immigrants are still being treated as second class citizens such as an outcast. Throughout the novel The Namesake the parents of Gogol, Ashoke Ganguli and Ashima Ganguli brought their family to America to find their opportunity despite their strong beliefs in their Bengali culture. Going against

I The Namesake introduces people who leave behind their families and the familiar heat of India to build a new life in America- a cold and a bleak land of strangers. Jhumpa Lahiri weaves a story spanning three decades of geographically and culturally displaced Bengali family, comprising the parents Ashoke and Ashima first generation immigrants who had migrated to the U.S.A. from Calcutta in search of greener pastures and their children Gogol and Sonia the second generation immigrants. Personal identity

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘The Namesake’ is a novel that explores the concepts of cultural identity, of rootlessness, of tradition and familial expectation as well as the way that names subtly and not so subtly alter our perceptions of ourselves but it’s very much to its credit that it never succumbs to the clichés those themes so often Encounters of Lahiri as a developing offspring of worker folks in America are decently communicated through the character of Gogol in The Name purpose. As a kid she is