The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

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. While crossing her two worlds, Namesake opens the world of Ashima's experience.

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 when he went to college. - In Jhumpa Lahiri 's novel "Thessake", Gogol lived in five different houses in his twenties, but her mother Ashima lived in five places to accommodate her. Every time Gogol moves he leaves the child's house at Pemberton Road.

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.

According to Jhumpa Lahiri novel The Namesake, Namesake is a 2006 Indian-American American theater movie directed by Mira Nair, written by Sooni Taraporevala. It is a star of Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Kal Penn and Sahira Nair. This film was released in the United States after the film festival screening in Toronto and New York on March 9, 2007. Namesake received positive comments from American critics. Namesake depicts Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli (Irrfan Khan and Tabu), the first generation of immigrants from East India West Bengal to the United States, and their American born children Gogol (Kal Penn) and Sonia (Sahira Nair) There. Struggle). The film is mainly held in the outskirts of Kolkata, New York City and New York State.