The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri Essay

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In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and directed by Mira Nair there are many examples of love, experiences, challenges and drama. For instance, Jhumpa Lahiri’s representations of the American Indian identity, by examining the character of Ashima, mainly focuses on the phrases of reconstruction of her relation to her conflicted identity. Also, Lahiri shows another challenge on Ashoke and Ashima when his son Gogol embraced American cultural traditions. Lastly, Lahiri portrays how Ashima overcome all of the experience and challenges that she deals with living in a different country and facing her problems on her family. Therefore, experience and issues of assimilation are the major dilemmas that Jhumpa Lahiri represents in the story. Jhumpa Lahiri explores the lives of an Indian family and the ways in which identities are explored and constructed by both the first generation immigrants Ashoke and Ashima and second generations Gogol and Moshoumi. Ashima and …show more content…

The story draws a picture of the challenges of the Banguli family being an immigrant and adopting the American …show more content…

Sister Souljah is a young black girl with a generous heart who overdosed on love long ago. She was trying to be loved by her parents and her stepfather to feel that she’s not odd from her family. One of the quotations that marked on her story is, “I told you not to trust anybody” (Souljah 8). In this quotation, she apparently justified that do not trust anyone because at the end of the day the one you can trust is yourself. As an immigrant even your family and new friends are not the ones who deserve your trust; everyone needs how to stand by themselves to explore and to find out their

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