Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Love, Hate, and Understanding Often considered both a universal language and a source of the greatest happiness, true love can be incredibly elusive to those that do not understand it. With each relationship that a person engages in, they begin to understand their self worth and identity. The Namesake, written by Jhumpa Lahiri, accounts the life of an Indian boy from his teens to middle age and how he handles these feelings of “love”. Gogol Ganguli, firstborn of a recently immigrated family,…

The Namesake is another immigration story, which was adapted a book titled the same name. It is about a middle class immigrant Asian Indian family living in New York. Although the movie tells the story of an Indian family’s struggle in the US, essentially their adjustment problems could be true for all the immigrant families regardless of ethnicity. For example, yearning, adaptation process of the new culture while protecting your own culture and generation gap might be universal fact for all…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake depicts the development of a man named Nikhil Ganguli, commonly referred to as Gogol. Written in 2003, The Namesake illustrates the toils and internal journey many children of immigrants face in contemporary times. Seeing as they experience a clash between their ethnic culture and American culture, first generation children must seek a balance between the two in order to understand their identity, which is evident in Gogol’s experience. Through three phases of…

The locations and settings in literature reflect the internal feelings of characters and set diversified tones for its exposition. Anton Chekhov's short story integrates scenes in Moscow, Yalta, and an unnamed provincial town called S–. The geographic distinctions and environmental disparities between Yalta and Moscow exemplify the inner alterations of two primary characters, Dmitri and Anna. Chekhov initially presents Dmitri in a detestable light, illuminating his bitterness and misogyny as he…

is split between his Bengali heritage and and the American culture in which he lives i. He struggles to find his own identity and culture. The question of identity is dealt through names. For instance, Gogol’s name comes from the Russian author Nikolai V. Gogol. He has written “The Overcoat”, a short story which also deals with identity and which has a particular significance for his father for it has in a way saved his life during the accident that occurred on his way to his grand parents .…

identity that we want for ourselves. And when so many choices are offered to us, defining who we really are becomes a crisis in itself. Caught in such a web of identity crisis is AshokeGanguli’s son, Gogol, named in haste after Ashoke’s favourite author Nikolai…

The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, follows the life of the Ganguli family and their assimilation into America and their struggles with raising their children in a new and vastly different culture. Gogol, the main character, was born in America by two Bengali parents, Ashoke and Ashima. Throughout the novel, Gogol struggles with developing his sense of self as he dealt with a clash of Bengali culture at home and American culture in public. His parents were staunch supporters of maintaining the…

there was nothing to run away from, and reinventing himself was never the answer. This realization hits him when he is in Pemberton Road for the final time, reading the book his father had given to him on his fourteenth birthday, “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol. As he is beginning to read the book, he sees the note his father had left him saying, “The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name” (Lahiri, 288). Upon reading this quote his father had left him, he feels guilty…

Knowledge and perception are key factors in how things are interpreted. They can be the difference between understanding and being perplexed. In the novel, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Gogol seems to go through identity issues with his name. He struggles to find meaning in his name but as the years pass, he starts to understand his namesake through being able to accept his name himself. Although Ashima and Ashoke move to America, they seem to try to raise Gogal in their Indian culture…

Culture 's capacity in The Namesake can be seen as nearly endless when considering the many themes that give themselves to the story. Given that the story pertains to immigration and integration as a whole, culture is obvious to come up under a variety of ideas inevitably impacted by the story telling. A major component of how the story focuses on fostering culture is through it 's growth in areas with similar or familiar inhabitants. This is seen in The Namesake as a way for families and…