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"But by the end of the night, he will become their son-in-law and so be expected to address them as his second set of parents, an alternative Baba and Ma" (Lahiri 237-238). 

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"But by the end of the night, he will become their son-in-law and so be expected to address them as his second set of parents, an alternative Baba and Ma" (Lahiri 237-238). 

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This quote expresses the importance of cultlure in Indian weddings and especially in married life. Just the phrase "and so be expected to" highlights Gogol's tie to his culture and the expectations set for him.

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Aedan Deckard "Still, it feels a little strange to be so uninvolved in his own wedding" ( Lahiri 235)

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Aedan Deckard "Still, it feels a little strange to be so uninvolved in his own wedding" ( Lahiri 235)

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This quote demonstrates the coming of age of Gogol by showing how he is getting married which is a very important part of some people's lives. This quote also reveals how Gogol's coming of age is much different from his friends.

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Gogol has nothing to say to these people. He doesn't care about their dissertation topics, or their dietary restrictions, or the color of their walls. In the beginning these occasions hadn't been quite so excruciating. When Moushumi had first introduced him to her crowd he and she would sit with their arms around each other, their fellow guests a footnote to their own ongoing conversation. (Lahiri 253)

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Gogol has nothing to say to these people. He doesn't care about their dissertation topics, or their dietary restrictions, or the color of their walls. In the beginning these occasions hadn't been quite so excruciating. When Moushumi had first introduced him to her crowd he and she would sit with their arms around each other, their fellow guests a footnote to their own ongoing conversation. (Lahiri 253)

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This quote talks about how Gogol feels disconnected from his wife's friends. He feels like he should be connecting and talking but cannon. He then starts thinking about how left out he feels while with is wife and is feeling left out. -Dylan Lock

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"Gogol Ganguli will... vanish from the lips of loved ones, and so, cease to exist... Nikhil will live on" (Lahiri 308).

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"Gogol Ganguli will... vanish from the lips of loved ones, and so, cease to exist... Nikhil will live on" (Lahiri 308).

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In the end of the book, when Gogol finds the book that Ashoke gave him, he begins to mourn. Not only his father but also his name. In the first few chapters Gogol began to hate his name and its uniqueness. However he has grown to love it and miss it. He is sad that "Gogol" will vanish and "Nikhil" will live on. By discovering the book he finally understands the importance of his namesake and accepts it. LILIANA ANDREAN ;)

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"And then another book,never read, long forgotten catches his eye. The spine cracks faintly when he opens it to the title page. The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol"(Lahiri 307)

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"And then another book,never read, long forgotten catches his eye. The spine cracks faintly when he opens it to the title page. The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol"(Lahiri 307)

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Gogol is coming into a new stage of his life, where is has lost a lot of people, but is always willing to accept that. He finds a sense of calm with his name, and namesake. He knows it will never be prefect but it has meaning. He is stepping into a new stage of life by finding peace with his name and his life.
-Nora Cesljarev

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In so many ways, his families life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended... And yet these events have formed Gogol, shaped him, determined who he is. "(Lahiri 305-306)

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In so many ways, his families life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended... And yet these events have formed Gogol, shaped him, determined who he is. "(Lahiri 305-306)

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Gogol's reflection on the major ( or accidental ) events of his life that have helped create who he was even before he was born reveals the new maturity and reflection that has dawned upon Gogol. This quote ties together many events of the book and puts into perspective the impact that trials and hardships have on our mindset and simultaneously, identity. - Hannah Hittle

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Amani Tanner--"He had spent years maintaining distance from his origins; his parents, in bridging that distance, as best they could. And, yet for all his aloofness toward his family in the past... he has always hovered close to this quiet, ordinary town" (Lahiri 300).
Gogol spent years trying to put distance between his culture and his family. But every time he does this at the end he always ends up back home. His home is made up of his family and his Bengali culture. Gogol can never truly alienate himself from these things. His family will always be a part of his life whether he wants them to be or not. And he will always be Bengali and have that culture. He has a connection to both of these things. And those connections can not be completely changed or erased.

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Jorie B- "They have come to rely on her, Gogol realizes, to collect them together, to organize the holiday, to convert it, to introduce the tradition to those who are new. It has always felt adopted to him, an accident of circumstance, a celebration not really meant to be" (Lahiri 305).

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Jorie B- "They have come to rely on her, Gogol realizes, to collect them together, to organize the holiday, to convert it, to introduce the tradition to those who are new. It has always felt adopted to him, an accident of circumstance, a celebration not really meant to be" (Lahiri 305).

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This quote shows the unlikely circumstances in which traditions may form, but how quickly they can take root in a family. It also shows the dependency that comes with tradition and how one comes to expect the events that come with it.

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"Sometimes she would sit at a restaurant alone, at the bar, ordering sushi or a sandwich and a glass of wine, simply to remind herself that she is capable of being on her own. This assurance is important to her; along with her Sanskrit vows she'd repeated at her wedding, she'd privately vowed she'd never grow fully dependent on her husband, as her mother has " (Lahiri 263).

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"Sometimes she would sit at a restaurant alone, at the bar, ordering sushi or a sandwich and a glass of wine, simply to remind herself that she is capable of being on her own. This assurance is important to her; along with her Sanskrit vows she'd repeated at her wedding, she'd privately vowed she'd never grow fully dependent on her husband, as her mother has " (Lahiri 263).

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This quote reveals that Moushumi still wants  independence. Although she is married and surrounded by family, she still feels detached from it all. She is distancing herself from her husband and others because she met her family's expectations rather than her own.
-Michelle Ayeh

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"And though she still does not feel fully at home within these walls on Pemberton Road she knows that this is home nevertheless-the world for which she is responsible, which she had created, which is everywhere around her, needing to be packed up, given away, thrown out, bit by bit" (Lahiri 298). 

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"And though she still does not feel fully at home within these walls on Pemberton Road she knows that this is home nevertheless-the world for which she is responsible, which she had created, which is everywhere around her, needing to be packed up, given away, thrown out, bit by bit" (Lahiri 298). 

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Ashima has adapted to parts of the American culture, and this makes her feel as if America is part of her home now, which causes a very large change within her identity. It becomes a large part of her life and makes her feel as if it would be hard to move back to Calcutta full-time, which is why she only does it half of the time. -Patrick

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"Ashima has decided to spend six months of her life in India, six months in the States. It is a solitary, somewhat premature version of the future she and her husband had planned when he was alive. In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake. There she will have a room, the first in her life intended for her exclusive use. In the spring and summer she will return to the Northeast, dividing her time among her son, her daughter, and her close bengali friends. True to the meaning of her name, she will be without borders, without a home of her own, a resident of everywhere and nowhere." (Lahiri 293)

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"Ashima has decided to spend six months of her life in India, six months in the States. It is a solitary, somewhat premature version of the future she and her husband had planned when he was alive. In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake. There she will have a room, the first in her life intended for her exclusive use. In the spring and summer she will return to the Northeast, dividing her time among her son, her daughter, and her close bengali friends. True to the meaning of her name, she will be without borders, without a home of her own, a resident of everywhere and nowhere." (Lahiri 293)

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Through the Namesake Ashima has consistently dealt with alienation in some way or another, in the begining with being away from her family in india, and then later with the death of her husband. Ashima has, at several points felt disconnection from her home and alone. In the end of the book however we get this ending for her, where Ashima has come to terms with her split existence between the states and India. The book leaves Ashima accepting the roots she has in India, while also accepting her new connections in the U.S. -Riley Sherman

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"It is foolish for her to hope that the golden letters spelling GANGULI on the mailbox will not be peeled off, replaced." (Lahiri 293)

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"It is foolish for her to hope that the golden letters spelling GANGULI on the mailbox will not be peeled off, replaced." (Lahiri 293)

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Ashima begins to feel sad about moving away from her home in Cambridge. Throughout her life with her family she develops a deep connection with the home and all of the memories of her family inside, though she only begins to notice at the end.

maddie hundley

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"This will be the last party Ashima will host at Pemberton Road. The first since her husband's funeral. The house in which she has lived for the past twenty-seven years, which she has occupied longer than any other in her life, has recently been sold, a Realtor's sign stuck into the lawn" (Lahiri 293). -Jessie Gritton

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"This will be the last party Ashima will host at Pemberton Road. The first since her husband's funeral. The house in which she has lived for the past twenty-seven years, which she has occupied longer than any other in her life, has recently been sold, a Realtor's sign stuck into the lawn" (Lahiri 293). -Jessie Gritton

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This shows Ashmia preparing to change tradition. She is selling her house which has brought her countless traditions and become a tradition itself.

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"There was the disappearance of the name Gogol's great-grandmother  had chosen for him, lost in the mail somewhere between Calcutta and Cambridge. This had led in turn, to  to the accident of his being named Gogol, defining and distressing him for so many years(Lahiri 305)." 

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"There was the disappearance of the name Gogol's great-grandmother  had chosen for him, lost in the mail somewhere between Calcutta and Cambridge. This had led in turn, to  to the accident of his being named Gogol, defining and distressing him for so many years(Lahiri 305)." 

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This shows how his name has been the core of his identity for all of his life. The name Gogol has defined him and his connection with his family. In the quote he says it has defined and distressed him meaning his name linked him with his father. When he changed his name he became more detached form his family showing has his name centered his life.
-Erik H

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"Ashima lonely suddenly, horribly, permanently alone, and briefly, turned away from the mirror, she sobs for her husband. She feels overwhelmed by the thought of the move she is about to make, to the city that was once home and is now in its own way foreign" (Lahiri 297).

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"Ashima lonely suddenly, horribly, permanently alone, and briefly, turned away from the mirror, she sobs for her husband. She feels overwhelmed by the thought of the move she is about to make, to the city that was once home and is now in its own way foreign" (Lahiri 297).

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This quote reveals Ashima's feelings of loneliness now that she is moving out of her house in the United States and away from her children. The way Ashima feels about returning back home to India alone mirrors the way that she felt about coming to the United States in the first place. Both times she has felt out of place and as if she doesn't belong. Ashima feels alienated from her own family.

-Tessa Laszlo

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"He thinks of his parents, strangers until this moment, two people who had not spoken until after they were actually wed... astonished by his parents' courage, the obedience that must have been involved in doing such a thing" (Lahiri 237).

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"He thinks of his parents, strangers until this moment, two people who had not spoken until after they were actually wed... astonished by his parents' courage, the obedience that must have been involved in doing such a thing" (Lahiri 237).

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While Gogol is sitting next to Moushumi during their wedding ceremony, Gogol realizes that agreeing to an arranged marriage is an act of courage. He thinks about how important Ashoke and Ashima's families must have been for them to accept to marry a person they have never met. This is an example of how Indian tradition is to give in to parents' expectations in a more drastic way.

Daniela Flores

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"In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended,  one incident begetting another" (Lahiri 305) 

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"In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended,  one incident begetting another" (Lahiri 305) 

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Gogol reflects on his life with his family and realizes how much his parents have sacrificed for him and his sister. His family has been there for him throughout his life despite his efforts to distance himself.

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"She stops to count how many shes made so far. She estimates three for each adult, one of two for each of the children"..."She remembers Gogol and Sonia helping her when they were small."(Lahiri 292-293)

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"She stops to count how many shes made so far. She estimates three for each adult, one of two for each of the children"..."She remembers Gogol and Sonia helping her when they were small."(Lahiri 292-293)

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Ashima always thinks of her kids and family as her first priority. Family is the most important thing to her and in this quote she prepares her cooking for her whole family. It represents the whole picture, which shes always provided for, not just a part of it.-Paxton

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"It's what they deserve, they joke, for having listened to their mothers, and for getting together in the first place, and the fact that they are unit in their resignation makes the consequences somewhat bearable" (Lahiri 234).

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"It's what they deserve, they joke, for having listened to their mothers, and for getting together in the first place, and the fact that they are unit in their resignation makes the consequences somewhat bearable" (Lahiri 234).

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There mothers are the reason for them coming together so they are to thank for the reunion of them. They were also thankful for the wonderous help of their parents.
-Griffin Moore

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"They are not willing to accept, to adjust, to settle for something less than their ideal of happiness. That pressure has given way, in the case of the subsequent generation, to American common sense"(Lahiri 294).

Ashima and Ashoke find comfort in their Bengali traditions compared to American traditions. If most things can be done the way that they would originally be done or close to how they'd originally be done then Ashima would like to take that route because it appeals to her more, it makes her more happy. Which is why she also set Gogol up with a Bengali girl because it made her happy, it was something that she'd want to take place and saw that she was able to do it so she did. (Aerin Hogue)

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"...she is not the same Ashima who had once lived in Calcutta. She will return to India with an American passport. In her wallet will remain her Massachusetts driver's license, her social security card (Lahiri 294)." [Lily Rhodes]

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"...she is not the same Ashima who had once lived in Calcutta. She will return to India with an American passport. In her wallet will remain her Massachusetts driver's license, her social security card (Lahiri 294)." [Lily Rhodes]

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While Ashima still follows plenty of traditions related to her heritage, she has since adapted to several American traditions for convenience. Living in the US has caused her to change from her original self.

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"Countless people come to congratulate Gogol, saying they had seen him when he was so little..."

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"Countless people come to congratulate Gogol, saying they had seen him when he was so little..."

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Gogol is getting married to Moushumi, and plenty of people are coming up to Gogol and congratulating him for his marriage. They all remember him from when he was young, and they are finally seeing him again as an adult, and witnessing all of the changes he has gone through as an adult. -Jonah Knoll

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Ya see i was stealing this guyś sheep when he called the mounted police on me, very rude, and then i jumped into a lake and drowned. Now i´m a ghost that forever asks the ques ion: Who´ll come a-waltzing matilda with me?

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"She has learned to do things on her own, and though she still wears saris, still puts her long hair in a bun, she is not the same Ashima who had once lived in Calcutta" (Lahiri 294).

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"She has learned to do things on her own, and though she still wears saris, still puts her long hair in a bun, she is not the same Ashima who had once lived in Calcutta" (Lahiri 294).

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Ashima is about to return to Calcutta after selling the house. She thinks about how her experiences in America have changed her and how even though she still has the same habits and style as she did when she first came to America, her identity has been changed because of her experiences. She is not just Indian, she is American too, and that has become part of her identity.