Film Paper 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
America’s Identity: Not as Simple as It Seems American. One word that describes over 300 million individuals. One word that includes a diverse mix of customs and traditions from nearly every region of the world. One word that has nothing to do with blood or ancestry, but instead, a set of shared ideals. But what does it actually mean to be an American? In The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, Gogol ‘Nikhil’ Ganguli struggles to find the answer to this question. Born in America to Bengali parents, he is
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
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
First generation in The Namesake becomes nervous and lonely because of its constant shifting identities. The couple has landed in America to get proper identity and brighter future, but in actuality they are unable to achieve their goals. They cannot fulfil their desires due to shift in their identities. Instead of focusing on achieving their goals of becoming successful, they are struck between past and future. 5.1.1Affected Behaviours Shifting of identities affects the behaviours of immigrants
In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, everybody is just a little bit strayed. Or a lot lost, simply. Practically every character wrestles with his or her identity, because essentially every character feels the tug and pull of different cultivations, different customs, and different dreams. Gogol, in fact, is divided between two cultures. The Indian traditions of his parents and the conventional American culture in which he grows up. His undertaking is the same one that his sister Sonia encounters, and
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
manages to exercise his power through humor. McMurphy’s humor also outlines the desolation in the ward. Bromden says, “He commences to laugh...I realize all of the sudden it’s the first laugh I’ve heard in years” (Kesey 10). The Namesake Humor is used throughout the Namesake to help the reader understand the different cultures, even in serious moments. Moushumi jokes about her future with Nikhil to outline the unrealistic expectations. The narrator says, “Sometimes she jokes with Nikhil about their
lose their identity in the hopes of “fitting in” with society. While some incorporate both ways and use it to their advantage. In the novel The Namesake, we see two individuals Ashima and Ashoke from Bengal India who met in Calcutta when Ashima’s parents introduced her to Ashoke. They eventually got married in a traditional ceremony and later moved to Cambridge. She got pregnant and gave
It’s a heart touching story of the unnamed protagonist with a mental disorder. The stone-broke character immigrate from the Middle East and lives in the ghetto area of Montreal; he experiences the harshness of poverty and the struggle of multiple identities. On the other hand, as the story progresses readers learn that the protagonist is also a thief who steals from wealthy and needy people. He breaks into people's homes to sit on their couches and eat their food and quite literally thinks of himself