Plot Overview of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri from Chapter 1 / Lesson 1 8.7K In this lesson, learn about the major events that take place in The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri's popular 2003 novel. This book focuses on the Ganguli family, especially Gogol, as they navigate through the ups ...
I’ve heard so many good things about that book, that I might have to go and pick it up! I also recently bought Commonwealth at a library sale, and my local librarian raved about it, too! I’ll have to read it soon! Katy says: May 22, 2018 at 1:12 pm What is the name ...
I THINK this is my plan for the year but it may definitely change! January – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie February – Ann Patchet March – Neil Gaiman April – Maya Angelou May – James McBride June – Margaret Atwood July – Jhumpa Lahiri August – Haruki Murakami September – Agatha Christie...
What we call ourselves, Lahiri suggests, is important. It connects us to our history, provides a sense of identity and belonging, and makes the past a living part of the present. Much the same can be said, I would argue, about disciplines. What we call our discipline is not without ...
Although it appears on criteria sheets, many students never really understand the term metalanguage. Strangely, it is something that is rarely addressed in classrooms. While the word may be foreign to you, rest assured that metalanguage is not an entirel
being on the topic of fiction. Metafiction is something associated with post-modern writers. The story "A Conversation with My Father" by Grace Paley is metafiction because it goes in and out of self-awareness of itself as a story and discusses the process of fiction as part of the st...
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Of course, we can modify or change our names, which is also telling. Consider the character of Gogol in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novelThe Namesake, named after his father’s favorite author. As Gogol gets older, and his relationship with his father becomes more fraught, Gogol changes...
“She has the gift of accepting her life; as he comes to know her, he realizes that she has never wished she were anyone other than herself, raised in any other place, in any other way.”—Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake “He felt as though he were looking at a complicated riddle, of ...
Ross Feeler —John Cheever’sFalconeris a bizarre, dream-like story about a fratricidal heroin addict who, while locked inside novel’s namesake prison, shows readers a deeply fallen world that is nonetheless magical and worth inhabiting. I suggest pairing the novel withBlake Bailey’s excellent...