His family wants him to follow his father’s footsteps and become an engineer, but he wants to pursue architecture. His mother wants him to follow Bengali culture, such as marrying someone from the same background. Regardless of his parents’ desires, he focuses more on his friends and American culture than his own family’s values. When his father passes away, he begins to cherish his family values. Gogol is very caring and committed to his passions.
The novel begins with the romance between the main characters Tita, and Pedro. Pedro shows his devotion to Tita when he asks for her hand in marriage. “...for the very next day Pedro Muzquiz appeared at the house, his esteemed father at his side, to ask for Titas hand in marriage”(13). Tita is not allowed to be married as she is the youngest daughter and has to look after her mother.
This truly sets the scene for the novel overall and shows what it is to come further in the story. As stated in the previous paragraph, the novel begins with the wedding feast of two young lovers, Jurgis Rudkis and Ona Lukoszaite. They are two Lithuanian immigrants who met in Lithuania, years ago. The wedding feast is traditional for their culture.
The author emphasizes on Inigo’s emotions and reaction about his father’s death. Inigo explains to Yeste, in the book, how he spends ten years learning to prepare himself to fight with the
When she finally lets go of the secret, it relieves her, for her friends actually feel sorry for her. Her relationships improve and she can finally feel somewhat
Looking with the benefit of hindsight, things changed much neither during Gogol’s time not after him. Descriptions of Captain Gorobets’ individual guests are even more marvelous and edifying: On his sorrel stallion arrived Cossack Mikita, who kept
For instances, Mala and Vladek were both depressed and depression can be seen throughout the entire book. In Maus, Artie Spiegelman illustrates the relationship between Vladek and Mala to show the social conflict between man and women in this era. Marriage is not always based on love, but many other factors. Artie portrays his
He feels as if he can only fully embrace one culture, so he pushes his Bengali culture as far back as he can and welcomes the American dream. Nikhil represents his American acceptance, whereas Gogol represents his past, which he cannot shake no matter how hard he tries. In the end, he finally embraces and mixes both American and Bengali culture. Despite the cultural and assimilation struggles Gogol faced, he eventually found a way to discover his identity as a Bengali living in
To be alone on an island, painting the sky the desired shade of blue, but to be secluded, fending away civilization as it it were a parasite, is not one’s ideal state of mind. Yet, by a particular female character named Moushumi In the book The Namesake, they are confused. Moushumi is the ex-wife of Gogol and identified in detail by Jhumpa Lahiri. Moushumi’s identity is composed of her experiences, her values, and her background.
However he manages to impact her and she turns into someone more like him, but he doesn’t find this attractive and leaves
On the other hand, his parents choose to be with each other and then they started to love each other. Marriage to them was like an obligation. It was their duty and that was why they had to remain as couple forever till the end of time. However, Gogol is different. After he marries Moushumi, they are happy for only one year, then Moushumi
One may call this a plot twist as well. The two go from hating each other to realizing that maybe they do love and need one
Gogol’s serious relationships began after he legally changed his name to Nikhil. The significance of relationships and marriage in the novel is purely based on intimacy and defining one’s identity. Gogol’s relationship with Ruth was his first real relationship. They
This is the moment where his two identities, Gogol and Nikhil, begin to pull apart from each other and more major differences between the two show more intensely. Later on, Gogol develops a serious relationship with an all-American woman named Maxine who leads him ever further from his family. “He tells her he has a deadline at work, but it’s not true-- that’s the day that he and Maxine are leaving for New Hampshire, for two weeks” (144). Since Gogol is spending all this time with Maxine and her family, he barely has any time for his own family and he’d rather be with Maxine. Gogol starts lying to his parents and making up excuses to avoid them which causes him to drift from his family even more than he already has.
