Globalization is a blessing and a curse. Multiple routes of transportation instruments can take a person half-way across the world; however, immigration is not as easy as simply relocating from a native country to a foreign country. In other words, immigration is easier said than done. Immigrants often struggle with balancing their identities, learning how to communicate in contemporary societies...
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Introduction Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake delves into the complexities of cultural identity through the experiences of Gogol Ganguli, a first-generation Indian-American. The novel poignantly explores the struggle between the preservation of cultural heritage and the assimilation into a new society. This duality creates a profound identity dilemma for Gogol, whose life is marked by the tension between his Indian roots...
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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee are novels about Asian immigrants who came to America in hopes of giving their Asian-American children a life better than what they had in their own countries. In The Namesake, the main characters are originally from India, but move to America where they have their son, Gogol and daughter...
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âThe Namesakeâ is a novel by American author Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel travels through numerous locations in the world, examining the nuances involved with being caught between two conflicting cultures with highly distinct religious, social, and ideological differences. It explores and communicates ideas and attitudes through the many themes in a complex story in which conflicts between characters and their...
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Sunday Adelaja once said, âNames have a great influence on the destiny of the person, who bears the nameâ. In Jhumpa Lahirâs novel The Namesake, Lahir tells the story of a Bengali man named Gogol who, throughout his life, has experienced an identity crisis. The name given to him at birth was solely supposed to be used as his dark...
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Ashoke remains busy in his career, it hurts her most. When the doctor examines her in the Hospital, she tells her everything is normal. â But nothing feels normal to Ashima. For the past eighteen months, ever since she arrived in Cambridge, nothing has felt normal at all. Itâs not so much the pain, which she knows, somehow, she will...
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 Ashima, the Indian mother of the story, is born and raised in Calcutta, West Bengali which she calls home; that is until her arranged marriage with Ashoke Ganguli causes her to travel across the globe to North America and settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the early stages of this transition, Ashima struggles with leaving her entire family behind to now...
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In The Namesake, different characters have different definitions of home. For Ashima, itâs clear that her definition of home is India, where the rest of her family lives. She never considers Massachusetts or any of the apartments and houses that her family lives in as her home. Unlike Ashima, Gogol does not have one distinct definition of home, and readers...
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Identity is an undeniable and essential fact of life that our society is controlled by money and identity. Many poor People are living in society they are struggling for their basic needs and food. They are working hard for their daily routine it is also a great challenge for them. The government doesnât show any care for them because they...
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âOur culture, our traditions, our language are the foundations upon which we build our identity.â Oneâs cultural values and beliefs affect their attitude and influence their approach to living. When two cultures clash, it becomes difficult for a person to choose their value and belief system, which can have a major impact on their personality. Through the psychological lens, Jhumpa...
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The United States is home to people belonging to diverse cultural backgrounds. According to Pew Research Center in 2017 around 44.4 million immigrants live in the United States who came with hopes of securing a better life for themselves and their future generations. The idea of a better, prosperous life in the Western world forces people to sometimes risk their...
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Comparative Analysis of Two Characters in The Namesake This paper is all about a comparison between two characters of the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake. We are going to compare how the author paints these characters with other characters in the novel. Gogol Nikhil, who is the main character, and his mother, Ashami are the center of this analysis....
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BeyoncĂŠ once stated âYour self-worth is determined by you. You donât have to depend on someone telling you who you are.â As the protagonist of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Gogol Ganguli embarks on a journey of self-discovery from birth through a carefree and rambunctious childhood to evolving into a down-to-earth, kind-hearted, and selfless individual. As Gogolâs identity develops, he...
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Nilanjana Sudeshna âJhumpaâ Lahiri born on July 11, 1967, is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City. She is best known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English, and, more recently in Italian. She has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center since 2005. She contributed a lot to the Diasporic writings and...
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This study tries to examine the two main characters of the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri including Ashima and Gogol; in order to do that, the researcher uses the ideas of postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, especially the concept of hybridity. The study tries to see the way the two main characters see and experience the world as to representative...
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The movie entitled âThe Namesake,â is an Indian-American movie made in 2006 directed by Mira Nair, and based on the original book written by Jhumpa Lahiri. The story shows how culture and inheritance are influencing people's identity in society, especially when this one is different from their original one. The novel, through the Ganguli family, shows how the experience of...
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Introduction Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake explores complex themes of identity, cultural clash, and the immigrant experience, primarily through the lens of alienation, anxiety, and disillusionment. The novel follows Gogol Ganguli, a first-generation American born to Indian immigrants, as he grapples with his cultural identity and the inherent conflicts it brings. This essay examines how Gogol's journey encapsulates the broader immigrant...
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A migrantâs ability to easily assimilate into a culture can be depended on whether or not it was voluntarily done, as they find it easier to discard their past and create a new identity than those who were strained to do so. Both Jhumpa Lahiriâs bildungsroman novel, âThe Namesakeâ and Kent MacCarter and Ali Lemerâs anthology âJoyful Strainsâ, explore the...
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Postcolonialism is defined as âthe historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism, or that can be also used to describe the concurrent project to rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various form of imperialismâ (Ivison, 2020). Postcolonialism shows about identity, cluture and nationality. The namesake by jhumpa lahiri,The cultural disparity is one...
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âBeing a foreigner is a sort of life-long pregnancy-A Perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an on-going responsibility, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding like pregnancy being a foreigner Ashima believes, is something that elicit the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of...
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The Ganaguli family lifestyle can be very different than others in America. Particularly, the Ratliff family. When Gogol meets Maxine, she invites him to dinner and mentions that she lives with her parents. Gogol asks if her parents mind, she laughs and responds with, âWhy on earth would they mind?â (Lahiri 129). This displays the different morals between the two...
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Whenever I think of trains, I think of it as the start of an adventure, the start of discovering something new about ourselves. I think of all the accomplishments that led to our modern train. It symbolizes freedom, a transportation that enables from being confined in one place. However, in the story, we see the repeated significance of trains and...
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 âNot all plants, let alone humans, survive transplantation, and, as Lahiriâs stories show, for some the process of transplantation is impossible or irremediably damagingâ(Ambreen Hai). Identity is always difficult for everyone, but being culturally displaced, as immigrants are just adds to the pressure of fitting in. Or even more so for those who grow up in two worlds at the...
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