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.
“Do I remind you of that night?” “Not at all,” his father says eventually, one hand going in his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. “You remind me of everything that followed.” Chapter 5, page 124.
He tries his best to find job and work hard to bread this family. Nevertheless, another bad news attacked him. One day, after he finished his work come back home, he finds every women in his family is crying. His son, Antanas run to the street and was drown in a puddle due to no one watch him. Jurgis feels hopeless, he lost his wife and now, he loses his son.
When the true accident occurs, the image is so different from what she expected that it affects the emotional reaction that would traditionally be associated with the scene. As a result, the compassion that one would feel towards her character is reduced because she has previously glorified death. Ultimately, the dramatic irony reveals aspects of the grandmother’s character and affects the reader’s emotional response to the
Oscar Leon Professor: Ron Waddy English 1B March 10, 2017 The Boucherie: Multi-Cultural Acceptance The Boucherie is a story by Stephanie Soileau, that centers in Cajun community that deals with multi-cultural acceptance. The author employs plot to convince the reader of this theme.
His son marries, and the narrator and his wife age further, and the transition into old age is complete with the death of the narrator’s father-in-law. Between these events we can see large shifts in attitudes and ideas, as well as health and well-being. These factors provide clear character evolution within the
"Come read the rest of this, honey. " His mother had joined him on the porch. "It's a trip. " The torture chair looked normal in the hours before tea. Madame poured a second cup of tea for herself, and offered to do the same for the visiting luminary.
This meal demonstrates Gombo and his family’s respect for Sergi. When Gombo is in a city, he stops by a local pharmacy to purchase condoms because his wife fears the child policies in China. Gombo cannot purchase them due to his hesitancy and visits a temple to consult with a lama. Mikhalkov uses this scene to demonstrate Gombo’s respect for his religion. Before Gombo returns to his yurt, he purchases a television set for his family after his wife requests a television set.
Gogol, the son of Ashima and Ashoke, was born in America and spends the first half of his life trying to run away from his Bengali roots. Although Gogol does not feel as lost and detached as his parents in America, he has a difficult time trying to balance the Bengali culture he was born into as well as the American culture he sees and experiences all around him as he is growing up. Throughout the novel, The Namesake, Gogol struggles to develop his identity due to the clashing of Bengali and American culture in his life. Gogol’s first obstacle in his search for self-identity occurs only a couple days after his birth, when his parents must decide on a name in order to be released from the hospital. Ashima and Ashoke eventually decide on Gogol, after the writer who saved Ashoke’s life during a train crash.
Ashoke and Ashima are quite tense as they find out that the letter from Ashima's grandmother hasn't come as of yet "and so [they agree] to put off the decision of what to name the baby until the letter comes, ignoring the forms from the hospital about filing for a birth certificate" (Lahiri 25). If it weren't for the customary duties, Ashoke and Ashima would have put an Indian name on Gogol that he would not regard as strange like he did when he became older. The fact of the matter is that Gogol is too young to understand his parents' circumstances at that time. Not to mention that Gogol doesn't respect his culture and customs in the sense that he doesn't feel that love for it which is very expected from a child who is raised in a foreign country. Like Gogol, Ashoke and Ashima are
As Gogol is more familiar with American culture, he feels his parents’ way of inviting people to dinner is vaguely foolish, and that leads to the fact that he prefers to spend more time with Maxine’s family rather than his own. The gap also widens in the relationship aspect. When they are curling up on the sofa in the evenings, Gogol is reminded that, “in all his life he has never witnessed a single moment of physical affection between his parents. Whatever love exists between them is an utterly private, uncelebrated thing.”(p138) He loves every companion and that is why he chooses to be with thim.
“Chapter 10” of A Single Shard begins with the author, Linda Sue Park, placing Tree-ear on the sixth day of his journey. Strategically, Tree-ear counts the days by making marks on his jiggeh. Every morning Tree-ear fulfills his morning routine of rising, washing in the stream, eating one of Ajima’s rice cakes, and finding a shady spot to rest and drink from the gourd. In addition to the rice cakes, Ajima had given him a haversack of food. At this time, Tree-ear is taking the time to be appreciative of his journey so far.
In the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri there are many relationships portrayed throughout the story. Ashoke and Ashima’s relationship doesn’t show their affection for each other. Gogol had three serious relationships with Ruth, Maxine and Moushumi one of which he ended up marrying. His relationship with Maxine was strong because he was very close with her and her family. Gogol’s relationship with Moushumi was based on secrets and their way of not being more open with each other.
However, as time passes, they begin to nurture a love for each other. This is only the beginning of a series of relationships in “The Namesake.” The primary one, centers on Gogol and his tight relationship between his Indian-cultured parents. At first, Gogol is completely in disgust at his parents and their background. This is evident during the beginning of their trip to India.
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.
