Essays on The Namesake

In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake, it shows the story of an Indian couple who move to the United States and begin a life to achieve the american dream. After that the story focuses on their first born Gogol who struggles to find his identity…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake is a remarkable coming-of-age story that begins with a newly wed couple from India moving to Cambridge to begin a family. The novel follows the life of their son and first-born child, Gogol, from just before his birth until the age…

JhumpaLahiri’s first novel, The Namesake, was published in The story spans over thirty years in the life of the Ganguliy familyAshima and Ashoke, who emigrated as young adults from Calcutta to the United States and their children, Gogol and Sonia, who are born and who…

Jhumpa Lahiri was born to educated middle class Bengali parents in London and grown up in Rhodes Island; Lahiri authentically portrays her experiences of problematizing identity in her first novel The Namesake. In this novel Lahiri’s experiences of growing up as a child of immigrants…

In this life, we all have a very special name, that was given to us at birth from our parents. This name has a spiritual meaning for our parents, and it will serve to distinguish us from each other. In the future when we are…