The Components of Identity in The Namesake by Lahiri

People all over the world are fighting for self personalization, an inner struggle that everyone must face in order to discover their real identity. Finding yourself is a difficult and long job you can take to complete your whole life. Some, if not most, can not face a true face directly. In the novel of Lahiri, identity is explained by a thorough study of the importance of the background, name and culture. The hero of the story tries to reveal the reasoning behind their pedigree, and it believes that they will lead to the discovery of the fate of the answer of life.

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 the child's house at Pemberton Road.

In Jhumpa Lahiri 's novel "The Namesake", the hero Gogol is struggling with his cultural identity. He is an American born Bengali who is trying to define himself. He wants to integrate into his lifestyle not understood by his parents, a typical American lifestyle. This made him nervous between adolescence and adulthood, and it is difficult for him to find a balance between the United States and Bangladeshi culture. His romantic relationship is one example. - ... Beneatha said to Asagai she wanted to be a doctor as she saw a little boy His face was separated when she was young, the doctor sewed a boy behind like a god. She wants to treat people like doctors who are seeing doctors do for the boy. But now she stopped taking care.