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    Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are, and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri first novel, written in September 2003 and later directed into a film by Mira Nair in the year 2006 develops her concept of loneliness. The Namesake is a great book, which accurately highlights characters transformation as a result of indisputable loneliness. The theme is depicted in many ways throughout the movie and the novel. Loneliness is an important…

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    Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri

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    for fiction. Her first novel the namesake is included in the same and got many awards for it. The story namesake tells us about culture and living sense of two country as the character gogol brought up in another country. It show the difference of mentality. CHARACTERS: Before the summary we should be familiar with the characters to whom which story revolves 1. GOGOL (NIKHIL GOGOL) 2. ASHIMA ( MOTHER OF GOGOL) 3. ASHOKE ( FATHER OF GOGOL) SUMMARY OF THE NAMESAKE The story begin in two week…

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    The Namesake Movie Essay

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    Recently I watched the movie, The Namesake that showed various aspects of immigration across family generations. The movie illustrated the in impact of a culture assimilation and identity search of an Indian family. They are several other points, but the crucial ones that will be discussed in this paper is identity and culture. This paper will focus on the characters and interviewee identified as immigrant and challenges in the new culture. The movie, the Namesake is about an Indian family who…

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    The Namesake has been a novel that has been selected for all ages to read because of how many many themes there are in the book. A review from Mandy Anderson, an advisor from Kent State University, explains that The Namesake is a very popular book that college professors have chosen for their students to read. Anderson says that it opens up discussion about “establish[ing] [your] identity separate from the family, the journey to adulthood, and coming to terms with the past.” This is an important…

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    While The Namesake primarily focuses on Gogol’s point of view throughout his experiences into adulthood and maturity, chapter 10 abruptly introduces Moushumi’s thoughts as she begins an affair with Dimitri. This dramatic shift in perspective reflects on Lodge’s analysis of writers using a specific point of view in a story; however, unlike Lodge’s first indication that a change in point of view represents “a lazy or inexperienced writer,” Lahiri’s shift instead represents Lodge’s view of…

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    to their culture once again. Being accustomed to other traditions can be important to modernize and adapt to the current environment, but a person should never forget their roots and should always keep something from what they learned at home. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is a novel in which the main character, Gogol Ganguli, goes through many obstacles that conflict with his culture; the primary barrier is his name. At first, he strictly wants to be Gogol because that is what he was used to in…

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    protection, and benefits. Up on arriving to U.S, immigrants face several challenges and this paper will examine challenges and hardship immigrants go through when they moved to new country. This paper will also compare and contrast the film called The Namesake which is an Indian-American film and an interview conducted with an immigrant from Ethiopia. The movie concerns itself largely with being Indian and American at the same time. It tells the story of a young couple Ashima and her proposed…

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    However, if you take action towards it, chances are it will be easier to handle. Thus, making it easier for you to move on in your life and face new obstacles. In our group’s culminating presentation I made a text to text connection to the book “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri. In this book, a boy named Gogol struggles with identity crisis throughout the whole book and he has a hard time finding out who he really is.…

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    Throughout Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, as the title may imply, names play a very prominent role in the story. The most important name is that of Gogol, who only learns the true reason for his name after he graduated from college. This decision of his father, Ashoke, to keep the true story hidden away changes the way Gogol acts. Due to his lack of knowledge on his namesake, Gogol gains a hatred for his name, and eventually makes a drastic decision to change his name, which shows off the…

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    constituting the dimensions of diaspora literature with reference to Jhumpa lahiri’s The Namesake. Key words: Socio-Psychological, Cultural disparities, Alienation, Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, Gogol. Socio-Psychological dynamics of cultural disparities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s namesake. Jhumpa Lahiri, who won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000 for her Interpreter of Maladies, is a brilliant novelist. Her first novel The Namesake forms the basis of the present study. Lahiri has the first-hand…

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