'Namesake: Nikolai Gogol and Gogol S Circumstance Essay\r'

'The Namesake has a inter-group communication to belong as if deals with the disconnection of the Ganguli’s. The theme of lunacy and the attend for belonging between the two cultures is correspond through the shifts between the two countries; where Ashoke and Ashima move to the States growing their children up in an American orderliness but teaching them Bengali traditions. Lahiri uses techniques such as symbols to illustrate the hotshot of belonging and not belonging. passim the novel, the composer of the readysake illustrates an aspect of belonging through the technique symbolism.\r\nLahiri uses the subject of cooking and the symbol of the namesake, to create the sense of belonging and not belonging. Names are closely connect to identity and can help or balk a sense of belonging. However in Gogol’s circumstance he struggles to fit in some(prenominal) the America society and his Bengali home as he feels his name does not belong in either culture. On page 10 0 we externalise Gogol’s frustration with his name, â€Å"the only person who didn’t take Gogol seriously, the only person who tormented him.. was Gogol.. ” present the author has demonstrated to the reader that nobody else decide him for his name, yet he feels that he does not belong.\r\nThis reflects Gogol’s insecurity with his name making him feel forbidden of place in both cultures. Resulting to him changing his name in order to belong in his American society rather than his home culture. The ongoing bank line between the two cultures, connect to a sense of belonging. As it shows the differences between where Gogol and Ashima feel comfortable to where they belong. Ashima neer feels like she totally belongs in America and on page 1 she wants to prepare an Indian conventional meal with American ingredients which is unsuccessful. But by the cobblers last on page 274 she is cooking her last bed covering which she has become renowned for.\r\nLahir i presents the symbol of food as Ashima’s bicultural belgonging. `Where as Gogol feels as if he doesn’t belong with his Indian culture and their eating ways. On page 133 Gogol Is having dinner with Maxine’s family and he is equivalence her family ways to his, the Bengali feasts to Lydia and Gerald’s eating habits. Which represents where he is most comfortable with and that is in the American ways. In conclusion Lahiri uses the technique of symbols and motifs to interpret the different aspects of belonging, and the search for the belonging between two countries.\r\n'