The Namesake Movie Analysis

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Reflection of Culture in Namesake Movie
Life becomes hard and miserable when a person feels they have lost their sense of identity of his culture. The movie is a reflection of culture and full of values. Culture is highly reflected in the movie The Namesake. Reflection of culture in the movie can be seen when the lead protagonist discovers that the lead actor of two cultures and tries to bring them into one. Gogol, the American Indian whose parents are migrants in the US from India is worried how he is supposed to live two cultures. Despite the fact that these couple are living in a flat amid a city in America, there Indian culture and custom is evident. This is one of the main examples that can define how culture is being reflected in the movie. Culture has been and continues to be so innate in many people that once they are faced by its squeeze, it becomes a major phenomenon. The culture can effect in a person within values, material, and behavior.
In many culture, there are values that can make the person respectable with other people or can be Incomprehensible. Gogol's mother has humility to accept the other when ask her son to back to his girlfriend but he didn't. She is able to change impression of her son and compatibility for Max but she didn’t. This example shows how she wasn’t selfish of her son and her culture.
Gogol's family is often celebrating their own marriage, funeral, and birth of child together with others Indian families.
These ceremonies shows the second Generation who born for example in America, their real culture and the hope to continue doing this when their parents died.
When Ashoke, Gogol's father, was a life, Gogol wasn’t like his name and he was continuing talk to his father to change the name an...

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...r house and kissing or holding hands, it is unpleasant to them. When Ashoke and Ashima were in the park in India, Ashoke asked Ashima “Do you really love me”. She said, “Do you want me to say, I love you”. He said, “Yes”. But she just shakes her head and run. This shows us how really they have a morality and modesty. Ashman ashore
Adherence to values, traditions, and culture when someone moved to another country will make him confused, misunderstand others people, and hard to get into the society that he lived with. He has to read or ask about the culture he will move to Instead of getting in trouble. As I see in this movie, The Namesake, wearing a black dress, kissing, holding hand front you parents is against Indian culture and values. Also, if you moved to other country and have children there, they won't be like you, they will be change as a second generation.

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