The Namesake is the story of an immigrant Bengali couple and their son Nikhil, whose pet name of Gogol becomes his legal name due to a language barrier-related misunderstanding after his birth. The novel follows Gogol through his life as he struggles with his Indian identity and with his often unsteady relationship with his parents. His name and its uncertainty has a strong influence on the course of his life and informs a great deal of his personality and fate.
The namesake book and the movie differences I read the book first which made me understand the movie better I could enjoy the movie without reading the book but the novel gives a deeper dimension to the characters When I watched the movie I noticed that there were a lot of things missing from the book which means some of things were on the book they were not on the movie For example in the movie where they live is in New York City but the book said they lived in Boston since they moved to Ameri
The novel The Namesake follows the life of Ashima and Ashoke Gangulis immigration experience moving from India to America Once in America they start a family with their first born son Gogol They could have never guessed however that giving him that name would be the cause of a major identity crisis Being American born compared to his very traditional parents added to his distress Throughout his life all this inner turmoil conflicted with his personal life and especially with his ideas of love U
The Lord of the Flies Savagery William Goldings novel The Lord of The flies presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island left to try and retain a civilised society In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes At the opening of the novel Ralph and Jack get on extremely well We are informed Jack shared his burden and there was an invisible light of friendship between the two boys Jack changes con
In Jose Saramagos Blindness a group of seven strangers cross paths and band together when an epidemic of white blindness strikes the country Through their journey all seven characters change for the better and some like the girl with the dark glasses changed more that the rest With this change each of these peoples limits is tested both physically and emotionally Yet in the end they all come together and are able to survive by dealing with their situation The change in the girl with the dark gl
Maestro Demonstrates that successful relationships are founded on mutual respect Various forms of relationships exist within the novel Maestro Peter Goldsworthy demonstrates the many types of relationships that Paul encounters whilst in the process of growing up The novel a first person narrative from the protagonist Paul Crabbe demonstrates that in order for relationships to be successful they must include consideration for one another and some sort of common ground on which both parties align
Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 1 Sir Philip Sydney was one of the greatest poets of the Elizabethan age Astrophil and Stella the first sonnet of the Astrophil and Stella sequence which containes 108 sonnets and 11 songs was written in the 1580s The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto word which means little song As a genre sonnet can be defined as a fourteen lined lyric poem written in iambic pentameter It means that the whole work consists of fourteen lines and there are five feet in every