The Namesake Short Story

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Chapter 2: Struggle for Identity in The Namesake
The title The Namesake mirrors the struggle of Gogol Ganguli, child of Ashoke and Ashima, Indian foreigners to the U.S.A. to get personality in the way of life where he is conceived and raised with his strange name. Names do make them mean in India. A considerable measure of practice is done when a youngster is named in India. An Indian tyke for the most part conveys two names, a pet name and an official one. Pet names are for the family and neighbours and colleagues. They convey or may not convey meaning. In any case, official names are kept with a great deal of care and practice.
Ashoke Ganguli gives the name Gogol after the Russian writer whose book or a page once had been filled in as a rescuer …show more content…

Nikhil replaces Gogol when he enters Yale as a green bean. Here no one knows his prior name. He feels help and certain. Nobody knows him as Gogol however Nikhil. His existence with new name likewise gets changed. His change begins here. He begins doing numerous exercises which he couldn't set out to do as Gogol. He dates American young ladies. He started having live in relationship with the white ladies. His lifestyle, nourishment everything changes. Yet, another problem grips him. Gogol is not totally cut off from his underlying foundations and personality. He tries to reject his past yet it makes him outsider to himself. With the dismissal of Gogol's name, Lahiri rejects the outsider personality kept up by his folks. Be that as it may, this outward change neglects to give him inward fulfillment. Following eighteen years of Gogol, two months of Nikhil feels sparse, immaterial. He despises everything that helps him to remember his past and legacy. The loss of the old name was not all that simple to overlook and when substitute ends of the week, he visits his home .He was Gogol when his folks call him on telephone. He tries to put a divider between his past and his present, however it is

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