Language Barrier In Ashoke's Life

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1. She searches for Ashoke's face, but he has stepped behind the curtain the doctor has drawn. "I'll be back," Ashoke says to her in Bengali, and then a nurse adds: "Don't you worry, Mr. Ganguli. She's got a long ways to go. We can take over from here." Now she is alone, cut off by curtains from the three other women in the room. (Pages:5-6)
• These sentences are significant because there is a physical and language barrier. The curtain symbolizes a physical barrier. This physical barrier separates her speaking Bengali from the rest of English speaking America. There is also a language barrier hinted in the piece when Ashoke talks to Ashima in Bengali in the hospital. The barrier is presented because only Ashima could understand what her husband told her, while the doctor couldn’t.
2. "I'm saying I don't want to raise
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These words were expressed anxiously for the ability to see her family due the fact that she wasn’t there when her father died . Due to the passing of her father, Ashima just wanted to be with her family and not across the world away from them. Similarity, Gogol ends up feel different when his father passes away alone. After his father passing, he wanted to be with his mother and sister as much as he could.
5. "And what about you, Gogol? Do you want to be called by another name?"(Page:32)
• In this sentence, the theme of name and identity is presented when Gogol is starting kindergarten. The principal asked him what name he wants because his parents acknowledge him by Nikhil, a name which isn’t familiar with. Gogol told her that he will prefer the name Gogol and with that the name sticks with him through his schooling years. Gogol will regret his decision later and then have his name legally changed to Nikhil.
6. "I detest American

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