In the story Namesake, the author Jumpa Lahiri uses flashbacks and settings to help the characters remember their culture during tough times in their new life in America. Flashbacks are important to remember good times and bad. Remembering the bad times helps to know that even through bad times something good can come out of it. Moving to a new country is ruff getting used to a new lifestyle but the Ganguli family fights through the hard times and makes a new living in America. In 1961 Ashoke meets a man on a train named Ghosh. Ghosh tell Ashoke to travel the world before settling in “pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much as the world as you can” the train crashes and Ghosh is killed Ashoke survives and listens to Ghosh and moves
