to analyse the various issues faced by the immigrants as portrayed in Lahiri’s novel first novel The Namesake. The story of the novel is set in United States, Calcutta hovers in the background. . It is out of her experiences of the bizarre identity crisis on the part of those who have remained as immigrants and those who were traumatized by homelessness, that the contents of the novel The Namesake were derived. Jhumpa Lahiri admits that as the novel conveys the experiences of alienation of the migrants
Assignment – The Namesake The Namesake is a film based on the novel of the same name, written by Jhumpa Lahiri released in 2006. The film illustrates the struggle of an Indian couple that moved to New York to start a new life away from their homeland. They give birth to 2 children, Nikhil “Gogol” Ganguli and Sonia Ganguli – one of the prim focuses is put on Gogol throughout the film. The movie takes us through Gogol’s cross-cultural life chronologically; stressing the struggles he goes through from
An immigrant is one who comes to live in a foreign country or a region. While diaspora is collective term for people from same origin, the term immigrant is used collectively for all those come to live in a common destination country or region and settle there forever. For example people who come and settle in USA from other countries constitute immigrant population of USA. Frequently diaspora or immigrants may acquire the citizenship of the host country, leading to change in their nationality
As spoken by Albert Camus, “he who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool”. In The Namesake, the four protagonists despair their dividedness between their two spheres of existence, whilst foolishly maintaining the sense of hope that external factors can fill this gap in their identities. Lahiri synchronically evaluates the various characteristics that define this human essence such as love, family and growth, by transporting the reader through key moments