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Listed below is the piece of artwork I made specifically for this project. Below is a young adult Gogol who seems to be a little upset due to his fathers recent passing as well as breakup with then girlfriend Maxine. Gogol is rather confused at this point and cannot decide who or what he was meant to be. As you can see around his head are written words that mostly read out ¨Who am I?".  These thoughts are what comes from Gogol's head as he is trying to process the present. He is lost and no matter where he turns he cannot find himself. He changed the name his father had picked for him and now his father is gone. Is he Nikhil or is he Gogol? What is his place in this world? For him it is hard to understand.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z9goqhlx7joPjVSNpekCP_WVY9Qz6JCsAsWYNCTXxI8/edit

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2. Read a Short Story and Create a Analysis

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2. Read a Short Story and Create a Analysis

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Recently I read a short story by the author Juhmpa Lahiri named the Years End. To my surprise this author has also written a book called the Namesake in which I am currently reading within my 10th grade ELA class. Whilst reading the Years End ,I could not help but make small connections between the two writings. In short the Years End is about a college boy named Kaushik who previously lost his mother to cancer. Later, to his discomfort, his father marries a new woman with two children. The college boy despises his new step mother and despite being able to make a good relationship with his new siblings, lets the truth about his feelings come out among the family. He then leaves the home feeling guilty of what he has done.

The first connection I would like to point out between the stories is the fact that both the characters Gogol and Kaushik is that they feel embarrassment of their families behaviors and actions. Gogol is embarrassed of his moms Indian culture and way of life whilst Kaushik is embarrassed his father chose to remarry and replace his mother. So each one ashamed of the actions of their loved ones. Both Gogol and Kaushik's families are from Indian backgrounds as well. The second thing I would like to point out in these two amazingly written pieces of literature, is the emotion of grief when a loved one has died. Gogol loses his father to sudden heart failure while Kaushik lost his mother to a tough battle with cancer. Both of their hearts feel empty after this moment and they can't help but to think of them every second of the day.

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In the image represented below, I have provided an analysis on the character Gogol. To go into further detail on this collage and why I chose these specific images, I believe that Gogol is a confused character who struggles to find his identity. Here you can see a man in a field walking to nowhere, he is looking back behind him as if he were looking at a past envision of himself. An X lays over his face as an example of him losing his true identity. Above his head the lettering reads "I feel so lost" meaning he does not know whom deep inside he truly is as to why he in a field surrounded by nothingness.

A girl appears in the sky with flowers in her mouth. This girl is here to represent Maxine. A past lover of his in which he spent every daunting and delightful hour with. He grew into her home, her lifestyle, and her family making this woman become a key part to his identity at the time being of their relationship. Gogol and Maxine split after his fathers death. Gogol come's to a realization that he must now become the man of his mothers home whilst grieving the loss of his beloved father. He never spent time at home once he went off to school and became an adult. Gogol seem's to regret his actions through his character development hence the hands reaching for each other represent his father and him.

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“I hate the name Gogul.” he says. Ive always hated it.” (Lahiri 109)

“From the little he knows about russian writers it dismays him that his parents chose the weirdest namesake. Leo or Anton he could have lived with. Alexander shortened to Alex, he would have greatly preferred. But Gogul sounds ludicrous tohis ears, lacking dignity and gravity.” (Lahiri 81, 82)

“It is a meal that he knows it has taken his mother over a day to prepare, and yet the amount of effort embarrasses him.” (Lahiri 159)