Forming a Life Outside of Everything You Know: Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake"

Namesake is a novel that depicts the life of a couple in Bangladesh who emigrated to the United States to form a life other than what they know. In this novel, the details of the hardships and struggles of the family faced when looking for a new country are stated. The story communicates the story of the life of his struggle with his son Gogol Ganguli in family, culture, society. In his novel, Gogol began to shape many aspects of his life and was the central theme of the notion of belonging to a novel.

The name of Jhumpa Lahiri in The Namesake shows assimilation as a second generation of Gogol's American immigrants, facing assimilation that Gogol will become an American. In the whole novel, Gogol is suffering from his name. From kindergarten to university, Gogol asked why he was called Nikhil when he was a child, and why he was called Gogol while at university. - In Jhumpa Lahiri 's novel "Thessake", Gogol lived in five different houses in his twenties, but her mother Ashima lived in only five places to accommodate her. Every time Gogol moves he leaves his child's house at Pemberton Road. It symbolizes the desire to seek identity and the desire to be born of family and Bangladeshi culture.

Jhumpa Lahiri's name lives in the United States, and the choice of Ganguli is difficult to choose between two different cultures. In addition to not seeing this, Gogol felt that this unnecessary phone made him embarrassed. Usually, I also feel like this to my mother. As I stayed home full time, I used to remove it and drive it instead of finding my way of transportation. I am accustomed to this lifestyle, so I think she will always take me to another place on time.

Namesake introduces the lifetime of Ashima Ganguli shipped from India to America with elegance and compassion. This story of Jhumpa Lahiri is a fable that establishes identity using the symbolic meaning between two intersecting cultures. The theme of the whole story relates to the experience of immigration, cultural confrontation, assimilation, and intergenerational connection. - Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov A hero of the devil, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is considered by many to be the top of a Russian writer written in the 19th century.

In the process, some of the characters of The Namesake of Jumpa Lahiri have created or denied connections with their own culture, experienced a conflict between generations, and Ashima and Gogol in the book It reflects. The degree of assimilation determines the extent to which the character forms a new identity in the new culture. Forming a connection with tradition plays an important role in the process of identity formation. In The Namesake, Ashima is a kind of person who creates people.