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Which statement best summarizes a central idea in The Namesake? A. Adults adapt more easily to cultural differences than children do. B. Children are unable to adapt to cultural differences.Which statement best summarizes a central idea in The Namesake? Globalization allows people to maintain traditional cultural identities. Globalization is leading people to redefine their cultural identities. Globalization has more of an impact on adults than it does on children.Question: Which statement best summarizes a central idea in The Namesake? A.) Globalization allows immigrant families to easily adjust to the values and institutions of their new cultures and countries. B.) Globalization is a current trend that will not succeed because immigrant families will be unable to adjust to unfamiliar customs. C.)Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Change, and its Dependence on Stability. Lahiri tracks, through The Namesake, the changes that occur to the Ganguli family.But she does not do so to argue that life is entirely change. Instead, Lahiri carefully orchestrates a sequence of recurring activities, parties, meals, and social events throughout AshimaThe Namesake fits some definitions of a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age novel, with Gogol as the protagonist who grows up over the course of the story. Although our view into the life of Ashoke and Ashima makes them central to the novel, it is Gogol who becomes the main protagonist, and whose development we follow most…

Relationships between Parents and Children

The theme of the dating between folks and youngsters turns into outstanding, as Gogol grows sufficiently old to engage along with his parents as a kid. While Ashima is pregnant with Sonia, Gogol and Ashoke eat dinner alone together and Ashoke scolds Gogol for enjoying with his meals. He says, "At your age I ate tin," to draw consideration to how thankful Gogol should be for having the meals to consume. The courting between Ashima and Ashoke and their very own oldsters is also mentioned when they to find out that their oldsters have died; Ashoke's oldsters both die of cancer, and Ashima's mother dies of kidney illness. They learn about these deaths by telephone calls.

As Ashima addresses Christmas cards in Chapter 7, she is wistful that Sonia and Gogol didn't come house to have fun Thanksgiving together with her. Their want for independence is opposite to the need she felt at their age to be close to her circle of relatives. Gogol begins to feel gentle toward his father after his loss of life, when his perspective towards him while he was once alive was in most cases impatient. As Gogol drives Ashoke's condo car to the rental place of job of his condominium building, he wonders if a guy outside the building mistakes him for his father. The concept is reassuring to him. He now understands the guilt and uselessness his oldsters had felt when their very own parents had passed away throughout the global, in Calcutta.

The relationships between oldsters and kids are offered in Chapter 8 in regards to Moushumi and her folks, who are Bengali like the Gangulis. Because she is a lady, they had been presenting her with Bengali suitors all over her teenage years, none of whom she was interested in. This enjoy alienated her from her folks, since she did not need to take their recommendation about whom she must marry, and since she resented them for trying to regulate her destiny in that manner.

The courting between oldsters and children is prominent as a theme in Chapter 12. Gogol considers what it took for his parents to are living in the United States, thus far from their own oldsters, and how he has all the time remained on the subject of house; they bore it "with a stamina he fears he does not possess himself." He does now not suppose he can bear being to this point clear of his mom for so long.

Name and Identity

The important theme of brand name and id is introduced at the very beginning of Chapter 1, when Ashima calls out for her husband from the rest room. She does not use his name when she requires him, since "it's not the type of thing Bengali wives do." Their husbands' names are thought to be too intimate to be used. In Chapter 2, the Bengali tradition of puppy names, or daknam and "good" names, or bhalonam, is explained. Only close family uses the puppy title in the privateness of the house, whilst the "good" identify is used in formal situations like paintings. Ashima and Ashoke have to give their son a pet identify as they watch for the "good" identify suggestions to arrive from Ashima's grandmother, but the letter from Calcutta never comes.

The theme of brand name and id is vital in Chapter 3, when Gogol begins kindergarten. His oldsters intend for him to head by means of "Nikhil" in school and "Gogol" at house, but Gogol is puzzled and doesn't need a new title: "He is afraid to be Nikhil, someone he doesn't know. Who doesn't know him." As a child, he friends a new name with a new identification. Gogol isn't bothered by way of the unusual nature of his name till he's 11 and realizes, on a elegance shuttle to a cemetery, that his name is unique. He makes rubbings of the different gravestones with names he has never heard before as a result of he relates to them. By his fourteenth birthday, Gogol has come to hate his title and resents being requested about it. There are many alternative names for Gogol and Sonia to remember for their family members in Calcutta, "to signify whether they are related on their mother's or their father's side, by marriage or by blood." At the faculty birthday party, Gogol is reluctant to introduce himself to Kim as "Gogol," so he says his identify is Nikhil. It offers him the self assurance to kiss her: "It hadn't been Gogol who had kissed Kim... Gogol had nothing to do with it."

Ashima has never uttered Ashoke's name in his presence; the reader is reminded of this truth as she indicators his name to their Christmas cards. It creates a rift between Ashoke's name and his identification, no less than his identity to his wife. Even after Ashoke dies, as Ashima explains to their pals what took place to him, she refuses, "even in death, to utter her husband's name." She does now not perceive his identification as related to his name.

Moushumi is aware of Gogol as "Gogol," and is shocked when he introduces himself as Nikhil at the bar. It is "the first time he's been out with a woman who'd once known him by that other name." He comes to love the sense of familiarity it creates between them. She still calls him Nikhil like everybody else in his existence, but she is aware of the first title he ever had, and that turns out like a secret bond between them.

Moushumi and Gogol bond over their Bengali identities and the way they're a supply of confusion for Americans. "They talk about how they are both routinely assumed to be Greek, Egyptian, Mexican - even in this misrendering they are joined." Neither of them concept they would date any other Bengali significantly, since it was something each their oldsters sought after for them so badly. They know that their dating will enchantment to their Bengali folks, and so they to find this each comforting and surprising; they never thought they'd please their parents in that means.

The theme of name and identity emerges in Chapter Nine while Astrid, Donald, and the guests at the dinner birthday party talk about what to name Astrid's child. Moushumi finds to the guests nonchalantly that Nikhil was no longer at all times named Nikhil. This offends him as it appears like a betrayal of an intimate element simplest she knew to folks he doesn't like.

Language Barrier

The language barrier this is to be the supply of a lot combat for Ashima and Ashoke is clear when they arrive at the health facility for Gogol's beginning. After she has been given a mattress, Ashima seems to be for her husband, however he has stepped in the back of the curtain around her mattress. He says, "I'll be back," in Bengali, a language neither the nurses nor the doctor speaks. The curtain is a bodily barrier, but it represents the symbolic barrier created through talking Bengali in the United States.

The phrases the American husbands at the medical institution speak to their better halves display the culture barrier between India and the United States. They say that they love their wives and comfort them with intimate phrases, whilst Ashima is aware of that she and Ashoke is not going to alternate the ones varieties of phrases since "this is not how they are."

The language barrier arises as an issue as Gogol and Sonia grow older. Ashima and Ashoke send them to Bengali language and tradition categories each different Saturday, however "it never fails to unsettle them, that their children sound just like Americans, expertly conversing in a language that still at times confounds them, in accents they are accustomed not to trust."

In Chapter 8, after his date with Moushumi, Gogol makes the choice to talk to his taxi driver in Bengali. He feels the impulse to connect with any other Indian after having embraced his childhood reminiscences with Moushumi.

Alienation

The theme of alienation, of being a stranger in a overseas land, is outstanding right through the novel. Throughout her pregnancy, which was once tough, Ashima was once afraid about raising a child in "a country where she is related to no one, where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and spare." Her son, Gogol, will feel at home in the United States in a means that she by no means does. When Gogol is born, Ashima mourns the undeniable fact that her shut family does not surround him. It signifies that his birth, "like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true." When she arrives home from the sanatorium, Ashima says to Ashoke in a moment of angst, "I don't want to raise Gogol alone in this country. It's not right. I want to go back."

Ashima feels alienated in the suburbs; this alienation of being a foreigner is in comparison to "a sort of lifelong pregnancy," because it is "a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts... something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect." Gogol also feels alienated, particularly when he realizes that "no one he knows in the world, in Russia or India or America or anywhere, shares his name. Not even the source of his namesake."

The theme of alienation is tied to loneliness in Chapter 7, in regards to Ashima. She is living on my own in the house on Pemberton Road and she or he does now not like it in any respect. She "feels too old to learn such a skill. She hates returning in the evenings to a dark, empty house, going to sleep on one side of the bed and waking up on another." When Maxine comes to stick with the Gangulis at the finish of the mourning duration for Ashoke, Gogol can inform "she feels useless, a bit excluded in this house full of Bengalis." It's the approach he's used to feeling around her extended family and friends in New Hampshire.

The theme of alienation seems in Moushumi's life, as she describes to Gogol how she rejected all the Indian suitors with whom her parents tried to match her up. She tells him, "She was convinced in her bones that there would be no one at all. Sometimes she wondered if it was her horror of being married to someone she didn't love that had caused her, subconsciously, to shut herself off." She went to Paris so she may reinvent herself without the confusion of where she are compatible in.

Gogol feels alienated every now and then in his marriage to Moushumi. When he reveals remnants of her lifestyles with Graham round the condo they now percentage in combination, he wonders if "he represents some sort of capitulation or defeat." When they move to Paris together, he wishes it had been her first time there, too, so he didn't really feel so misplaced while she feels so obviously relaxed.

Ashima feels alienated and on my own after showering prior to the party. She "feels lonely suddenly, horribly, permanently alone, and briefly, turned away from the mirror, she sobs for her husband." She feels "both impatience and indifference for all the days she still must live." She does now not really feel motivated to be in Calcutta with the circle of relatives she left over thirty years ahead of, nor does she feel excited about being in the United States with her children and doable grandchildren. She simply feels exhausted and beaten with out her husband.

United States vs. India

The rigidity between the method issues are in the United States and the approach things are in India is plain in the personality of Mrs. Jones, the aged secretary whom Ashoke shares with the different participants of his department at the university. She lives on my own and sees her youngsters and grandchildren hardly; that is "a life that Ashoke's mother would find humiliating." As the Ganguli kids grow up as Americans, their oldsters give in to sure American traditions. For his fourteenth birthday, Gogol has two celebrations: one that is in most cases American and one that is Bengali.

The theme of the United States vs. India is plain during the wedding ceremony between Moushumi and Gogol. Their parents plan the whole factor, inviting other folks neither of them has met and engaging in rituals neither of them understands. They do not have the type of intimate, non-public marriage ceremony their American friends would have deliberate.

The distinction between Bengali and American approaches to marriage is clear in Ashima's analysis of Gogol's divorce from Moushumi. She thinks, "Fortunately they have not considered it their duty to stay married, as the Bengalis of Ashoke and Ashima's generation do." In her view, the drive to settle for less than "their ideal of happiness" has given solution to "American common sense." Surprisingly, Ashima is pleased with this result, as opposed to an unhappy however dutiful marriage for her son.

Tension between Life and Death

Ashoke comes to a decision not to tell Gogol about his near-death experience as a result of he realizes that Gogol is not in a position to comprehend it yet. This decision issues to the tension between life and dying: "Today, his son's birthday, is a day to honor life, not brushes with death. And so, for now, Ashoke decides to keep the explanation of his son's name to himself."

The pressure between existence and dying is outstanding in this bankruptcy, especially as Gogol offers with the dying of Ashoke, his father. He thinks about how "they were already drunk from the book party, lazily sipping their beers, their cold cups of jasmine tea. All that time, his father was in the hospital, already dead." As Gogol takes the train from Boston again to his life in New York, he thinks of the train accident his father have been a sufferer in so long ago.

The tension of lifestyles versus demise is plain to Gogol as he gets able for his wedding ceremony. "Their shared giddiness, the excitement of the preparations, saddens him, all of it reminding him that his father is dead." His father's absence is apparent in distinction to the party of his new existence with Moushumi.

Nostalgia

As the novel progresses, the characters begin to feel increasingly nostalgic about earlier instances in their lives. Gogol feels nostalgic when his mother and Sonia come to the train station to peer him off. He recalls that the entire family would see him off each time he returned to Yale as a college pupil; "his father would always stand on the platform until the train was out of sight."

Gogol begins to really feel more and more nostalgic as his marriage with Moushumi progresses. In Paris, he wishes he may keep in bed with Moushumi for hours, the approach they used to, slightly than having to sightsee by himself whilst she prepares for her presentation. During the dinner birthday party at the house of Astrid and Donald, Gogol becomes nostalgic for when he and Moushumi had been first dating, and so they spent a complete afternoon designing their excellent house.

Nostalgia is prevalent in Chapter 12, as Ashima prepares for the remaining Christmas celebration she will ever host at the space on Pemberton Road. She recollects when Gogol and Sonia have been little, helping her get ready the meals for these parties: "Gogol's hand wrapped around the can of crumbs, Sonia always wanting to eat the croquettes before they'd been breaded and fried." As Sonia, Ben, Gogol, and Ashima assemble the faux Christmas tree in combination, Gogol remembers adorning the first plastic tree his parents had bought at his insistence.