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“On the morning of their first anniversary Moshumi’s parents call, wishing them happy anniversary before they've gotten the chance to say it to each other.” (Lahiri - 262)

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Chapter 11- "But when he'd seen her bathing suit on top of the clothing on the bed, a strange panic had welled up inside of him as he thought of her lying without him by a hotel pool, her eyes closed, a book at her side."(Lahiri, pg. 286)

The quote represents the thematic element of Identity because it describes how Gogol gained "a strange panic" after noticing Moushumi packing a bathing suit in her luggage for her supposed conference, which enforces Gogol's intelligence and decisiveness, as his thought of Moushumi lying at a hotel pool during a conference seems odd to him.

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Gogol senses Moushumi distancing herself and slowly begins to worry. She hasn´t been herself for months. "more and more he sensed her distance, her dissatisfaction. But there had been no time to dwell on this story” (Lahiri 289).

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Ashima, Gogol, and Sonia prepare their Christmas decorations for the last time in their house, "For the last time, they assemble the artificial seven-foot tree, the branches color-coded at their base. Gogol brings up the box from the basement. For decades the instructions have been missing; each year they have to figure out the order in which the branches must be inserted, the longest ones at the bottom, the smallest at the top" (Lahiri 303).

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Chapter 12- Ashima cares so much for hr children and I believe she just wants them to be happy.  “Something tells her Sonia Will be happy with this boy quickly she cracks her self this young man. He has brought happiness to her daughter, in a way Moushumi never brought to her son. That it was who she had encouraged Gogol to meet Moushumi Will be something for which Ashima Will always feel guilty.” I think she feels guilty because Moushumi did Gogol so bad and it was her who set them up.

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As everyone at the part begins to think about what they will do next year, as Ashima will not be there to host, they realize how much they appreciate her and her efforts. “People talk of how much they’ve come to love Ashima’s Christmas Eve parties, that it won’t be the same without her. They have come to rely on her, Gogol realizes, to collect them together, to organize the holiday, to convert it, to introduce the tradition…”(Lahiri 305).

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Chapter 11- "A time in her life in which he was still Gogol to her, a remnant from her past with little likelihood of appearing in her future. And yet they had met; after all her adventures, it was he whom she had married. He with whom she shared her life" (Lahiri 288).

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Chapter 12 - Ashima hosts a final holiday party at her home before moving back to India, "At seven thirty the bell rings, and the front door is left open as people and cold air stream into the house. Guests are speaking in Bengali, hollering, arguing, talking on top of one-another, the sound of their laughter filling the already crowded rooms. The croquettes are fried in crackling oil and arranged with red onion..." (Lahiri 304).

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Chapter 12- Gogol is watching and helping Ashima prepare for her last party and as he watches her he realizes “They have come to rely on her, Google realizes, to collect them together, to organize the holiday, to convert it, to introduce the tradition to those who are new. It is always felt adopted to him, an accident of circumstance, a celebration not really meant to be. And yet it was for him, for Sonia, that his parents had gone to the trouble of learning these costumes. It was for their safe that it's come to all this.” (Lahiri, 305)

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Chapter 10 - After she got the spot on the France trip, Moushumi realizes that, “Two years ago she would have said yes on the spot. But it’s no longer possible to fly off to France for a year, now that she has a husband, a marriage, to consider” (Lahiri 262).

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While reflecting on the changes he sees in his mother, Gogol comes to the conclusion that “She is not the same Ashima who had one lived in Calcutta. She will return to India with an American passport.” (Lahiri 294)

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Gogol finds the inscription his father left in his copy of The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol: “‘The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name’ is written within quotation marks. Underneath the inscription, which he has never before seen, is his birthday, and the year, 1982. His father had stood in the doorway, just there, an arm’s reach from where he sits now. He had left him to discover the inscription on his own, never again asking Gogol what he’d thought of the book, never mentioning the book at all” (Lahiri 307).

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Gogol clearly loves Moushumi very much and can not only picture her being happy in their apartment, but also got her a thoughful gift for Christmas right before this. “‘She just got back,’ the doorman tells Gogol with a wink as he walks past, and his heart leaps, unburdened of its malaise, grateful for her simple act of returning to him. He imagines her puttering around the apartment, drawing a bath, pouring herself a glass of wine, her bags in the hallway. He slips the book he will give her for Christmas into the pocket of his coat, making sure it’s well concealed, and calls the elevator to take him upstairs” (Lahiri 291).

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Gogol reflects on the pass week, thinking about the things he did that were fun but stressful. “Last week was Thanksgiving. His mother and Sonia and Sonia’s new boyfriend, Ben, had come, along with Moushumi’s parents and brother, and they had all celebrated the holiday together in New York, crowded together in Gogol and Moushumi’s apartment. It was the first time he had not gone either to his parents’ or his in-laws’ for a holiday,” (Lahiri 288)

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Nikhil realizes at Christmas that, "“It was the first time he had not gone either to his parents’ house or his in-laws’ for the holiday. It felt strange to be hosting, to assume the center of responsibility.”(Lahiri 288).

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Moushumi feels that what she is expected to do by parents and family is alienating her: “Doing precisely what had been expected of her for her entire life, had felt forbidden, Wildly transgressive, a breach of her own instinctive will.”

(Lahiri 266)

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Ashima reflects on her life without her husband, “Ashima feels lonely suddenly, horribly, permanently alone.” (Ashima 297)

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Gogol starts to wonder, "he looked at Moushumi and wondered what was wrong. They didn't argue, they still had 🤬, and yet he wondered. Did he still make her happy? She accused him of nothing, but more and more he sensed her distance, her dissatisfaction, her distraction" (Lahiri 289).

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As Moushumi sneaks around with Dimitris, she notices, "There are no Bengali fruit sellers to greet her on the walk from Dimitri’s subway stop, no neighbors to recognize her once she turns onto Dimitri’s block” (Lahiri 281).

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“And yet he has the feeling that he has been to a few of her birthdays, and she to his” (Lahiri 221).

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The narrator reflects how Gogol feels out of place, “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 occupations hadn’t been quite so excruciating (Lahiri 253).

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Chapter 8 - Gogol feels insecure and isolated when his old name is brought up, “It had annoyed him, when he’d called her, that she hadn’t recognized him as Nikhil. This was the first time he’d been out with a woman who’d once known him by that other name” (Lahiri 207).

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Chapter 7 - Ashima is overcome by the death of Ashoke, “She begins to shiver violently, the house instantly twenty degrees colder. She pulls her sari tightly around her shoulders, like a shawl. She gets up and walks systematically through the room of the house…” (Lahiri 182).

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Gogol and Moushumi seem to favor their lives outside of Indian culture, "It's not the type of wedding either of them really wants. They would have preferred the sorts of venues their American friends choose, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden or the Metropolitan  Club or the Boat House in Central Park. They would have preferred a sit-down dinner, jazz played during the reception, black-and-white photographs, keeping things small. But their parents insist on inviting close to three hundred people, and serving Indian food" (Lahiri 234).

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Moushumi talks about her past husband, and their time in Calcutta. "To her surprise, he was complaining about it, commenting that he found it taxing, found the culture repressed. All they did was visit her relatives, he said" (Lahiri 232).

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Chapter 7- In the aftermath of his father's death, Gogol turns to Bengali tradition “For 10 days following his father's death, he and his mother and Sonia eat a mourner’s diet... Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger... He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, and honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life…  Now sitting together at the kitchen table at 6:30 in the evening, his father's empty chair, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense…” (Lahiri, 193-194)

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Ch. 7- Ashima “She refuses to write Nikhil, even though she knows that’s what he would prefer. No parent ever called a child by his good name. Good names had no place within a family.” (Lahiri, pg. 178)

This quote represents the thematic theme of Tradition because Ashima refuses to use Gogol's good name, Nikhil, for his holiday card cause "Good names had no place within the family".

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Description on what Gogol and Moushumi's Hindu wedding was like, “The priest is a friend of Moushumi’s parents, an anesthesiologist who happens to be a Brahim. Offerings are made to pictures of their grandparents and his father, rice poured into a pyre that they are forbidden by the management of the hotel to ignite” (Lahiri 237)

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As Ashima writes her son's name in her address book, the narrator reveals, "She refuses to write Nikhil, even though she knows  that's what he would prefer. No parent ever called a child by his good name. Good names had no place within a family"(Lahiri 178).

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Chapter 4- As Gogol and Sonia are living in Calcutta, the narrator talks about Gogol and Sonia’s relationship. “Of all the people who surround them at practically all times, Sonia is his only ally, the only person to speak and sit and see as he does...” (Lahiri 89).

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In this chapter, Moushumi and Gogol are newly married and begin to take on life together. This starts off pretty well, but as Gogol sits back and begins to observe, he noticies that “He feels hidden himself; men on the streets stare at Moushumi constantly, their glances lingering plainly, in spite of the fact that Gogol is at her side." (Lahiri 246) He doesn't have a super bad reaction to this, but to some degree Gogol seems jealous of her attention she is getting from other men, even as he is with her.

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Moushumi has known no true lover after her fiance had left her and she has begun to believe it is apart of her identity: “After years of being convinced she would never have a lover, she began to fall effortlessly into affairs” (Lahiri 229).

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Chapter 9- Maxine feels out of place with the family and feels excluded by “She had not understood

Being excluded from the family's plans to travel to Calcutta that summer to see their relatives and scatter Ashoke’s ashes in the Ganges.” (Lahiri 235)

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While reflecting on the traditions that he did not follow after his fathers death, he understand "the significance, that it was a Bengali son's duty to shave his head in the wake of his parent's death." (Lahiri 179)

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“She is not Mrs. Ganguli. Moushumi has kept her last name. She doesn’t adopt Ganguli, not even with a hyphen. Her own last name, Mazoomdar, is already a mouthful. With a hyphenated surname, she would no longer fit into the window of business envelope” (Lahiri 242). Moushumi decided to keep her last name because she felt like adding to her current one woul be a lot to say.

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“Maxine offered to go with him, but he has told her no. He doesn’t want to be with someone who barely knew his father,” (Lahiri 182)

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Chapter 3- Mrs Lapidus had a question about Gogol's name, "According these documents, your son's legal name is Gogol." "That is correct. But allow me to explain-"(Lahiri 63).

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After their waiter told them they looked like siblings Moushumi said to Gogol, “‘Well, it’s just funny to think that all our lives our parents raised us according to the illusion that we were cousins, that we were all part of some makeshift extended Bengali family, and now here we are, years later, and someone actually thinks we’re related”’ (Lahiri 218).

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Chaper 8- As Gogol and Moushumi get closer and visit each other more often, “He sees her for entire weekends without make-up, sees her with grey shadows under her eyes as she types papers at her desk, and when he kisses her head he tastes the oil that accumulates on her scalp between shampoos. He sees the hair on her legs between waxings, the black roots that emerge between appointments at the salon, and in these moments, these glimpses, he believes he has known no greater intimacy,” (Lahiri 225, 226)

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At Gogol and Moushumi's wedding, "A cake is wheeled out, 'Nikhil Weds Moushumi' piped across its surface." (Lahiri 239)

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While writing Christmas cards, Ashima recalls that, "She refuses to write Nikhil, even though she knows that's what he would prefer. No parent ever called a child by his good name. Good names had no place within a family."(Lahiri 178).

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Chapter 6- “She is surprised to hear certain things about his life: that his parents marriage was an arranged one, that his mother cooks indian food every day, that she wears saris and a bindi.” (Lahiri 148)

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Chapter 5 “By now Gogol is just shy of 6 feet tall, his body slender, his thick hair slightly in need of a cut. His face is lean, intelligent, and suddenly handsome, the bones more prominent, the pale gold skin clean-shaven and clear.” (Lahiri 105)

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Slowly Gogol starts doing things "more American" connecting to those roots than those of his Bengali roots. "Thanks, Baba,” Gogol says, eager to return to his lyrics. Lately he’s been lazy, addressing his parents in English though they continue to speak to him in Bengali. Occasionally he wanders through the house with his running sneakers on. At dinner he sometimes uses a fork." (Lahiri 80) (Chapter 4)

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I once had a girlfriend that went to india “o where did she go” I don't know all i remember is she came back thin as a rail pamela laughs ...you must be lucky that way you must never get sick ..actually thats not true (Lahiri 138) (Chapter)

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Gogol describes the cultural differences between America and India during his 8 month vacation:
“There are endless names Gogol and Sonia must remember to say, not aunt this and uncle that but terms far more specific: mashi and pishi, mama and maima, kaku and jethu, to signify whether they are related on their mother’s or their father’s side, by marriage or by blood” (Lahiri 87).

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Reading a biography of Nikolai Gogol, Mr. Lawson says, "But during his life he was understood by no one, least of all himself. One might say he typified the phrase 'eccentric genius'" (Lahiri 97).

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The narrator reveals Gogol's opinion on his name, "He hates having to wear a nametag on his sweater at Model United Nations Day at school. He even hates signing his name at the bottom of his drawings in art class. He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things Russian” (Lahiri 81).

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In chapter six, Gogol begins to experience love in more than one way. We know this because the narrator reads, "...he falls in love with Maxine, the house, and Gerald and Lydia's manner of things..."(Lahiri 147). This shows how he has fallen in love with many things in many ways, getting a broad spectrum of admiration of life.

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Gogol is now Nikhil, "He wonders if this is how it feels for an obese person to become thin, for a prisoner to walk free. “I’m Nikhil,” he wants to tell the people who are walking their dogs, pushing children in their strollers, throwing bread to the ducks” (Lahiri 110).

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Gogol changes his name to leave his informal childhood name behind: “And so he had obtained a Commonwealth of Massachusetts change-of-name form, to submit along with a certified copy of his birth certificate and a check to the Middlesex probate and family court.” (Lahiri 107)

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When Gogol and Sonia visit Indian family they have to memorize new interactions: “There are endless names Gogol and Sonia must remember to say, not Aunt this and uncle that but terms of far more specific:  mashi and pishi, mama and maima, kaku and jethu, to signify weather they are related on their mother’s or their father's side, by marriage or by blood.” (Lahiri 87)

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“Because he knows he will never see her again, he is brave that evening, kissing her lightly on the mouth as she is talking to him … It is the first time he’s kissed anyone, the first time he’s felt a girl’s face and body and breath so close to his own” (Lahiri 103).  He got his first kiss which can be a big deal as people grow in their teenage years.

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Chapter 5
Sonia, Gogol's sister, takes on the customs of American culture--upsetting her mother in the process, "Her formerly shoulder-length hair has been chopped asymmetrically by one of her friends. Ashima lives in fear that Sonia will color a streak of it blond as Sonia has threatened on more than one occasion, and that she will have additional holes pierced in her earlobes at the mall. They argue violently about such things..." (Lahiri 115).

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Chapter 5
Gogol changes dramatically as a person when entering college, "It is Nikhil, that first semester, that he grows a goatee, starts smoking Camel Lights at parties while writing papers and before exams, discovers Brian Eno and Elvis Costello...." (Lahiri 112).

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Gogol is starting to become this new person, " It was me,” he nearly says. But he doesn’t tell them that it hadn’t been Gogol who’d kissed Kim. That Gogol had nothing to do with it” (Lahiri 103).

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Chapter 4- “Gogol does not date anyone in high school. He suffers quiet crushes, which he admits to no one, on this girl or that girl with whom he is already friends.” (Lahiri, pg. 99)

This quote represents the thematic element of Coming of Age because it references a period of Gogol’s life where he is starting to learn how to deal with his romantic emotions for women.

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“‘Hi, I'm Ruth,’ she says, recognizing him in that same vague way. ‘ I'm Nikhil’” (Lahiri 117).

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“One day in the summer of 1986, the frantic weeks before moving away from his family, before his freshman year at Yale is about to begin, Gogol Ganguli does the same” (Lahiri 104).

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While reflecting on his relationship and how his parents feel about it, Gogol "is conscious of the fact that his immersion in Maxine’s family is a betrayal of his own.” (Lahiri 138)

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When Gogol asks if his name still reminds Ashoke of his terrible accident, he assures him that “You remind me of everything that followed.” (Lahiri 124)

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“They had all named themselves, the article said, adding that it was a right belonging to every American citizen.”(Lahiri 106)

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Gogol asks his mother why he has a pet name. "‘It’s our way, Gogol.’ His mother maintained. ‘It’s what Bengalis do’” (Lahiri 107).

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Gogol begins to seek a new name by a "Commonwealth of Massachusetts change-of-name form, to sbmit along with a certified copy of his birth certificate" (Lahiri, 107)

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“ The other celebration, the bengali one, is held on the closest saturday to the actual date of birth. As usual his mother cooks for days beforehand. (Lahiri 77)

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Chapter 4- Gogol's teacher goes into detail about the author Gogol's life, which prompts the students to be judgmental and Gogol to be defensive. “To read the story, he believes, would mean paying tribute to his namesake, accepting it somehow. Still, listening to his classmates complain, he feels perversely responsible, as if his own work we're being attacked.” (Lahiri, 99)

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Chapter 4- When Gogol is at a Bengali party, he realizes that “He is too old to be playing hide and seek with eight-year-old Sonia and her ponytailed, gap-toothed friends, but not old enough to sit in the living room and discuss Reaganomics with his father and the rest of the husbands, or to sit around the dining room table, gossiping, with his mother and the wives.” (Lahiri, 78)

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Gogol and Sonia felt out of place in India because, “From time to time, they privately admit to excruciating cravings, for hamburgers or a slice of pepperoni pizza or a cold glass of milk” (Lahiri 89).

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Upon entering Gogol's room to deliver a gift, “Ashoke looks around the room. He notices the Lennon obituary pinned to the bulletin board, and ten a cassette of classical Indian music he’d bought for Gogol months ago, after a concert at Kresge, still sealed in its wrapper.”(Lahiri 83).

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Chapter 4- “Of all the people who surround them at practically all times, Sonia  is his only ally, the only person to speak and sit and see as he does. While  the rest of the household sleeps, he and Sonia fight over the Walkman, over the mountain collection of tapes Gogol recorded back in his room at home. From time to time,  they privately admit to the excruciating cravings, for hamburgers or a slice of pepperoni pizza or a cold glass of milk.” (Lahiri 89)

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Chapter 2: ”In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam… the name which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates” (Lahari pg 28).

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Chapter 1:¨tall for a Bengali women,complexion on the dark side of fair.¨(Lahari-9)

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Chapter 2- While waiting for the letter from Ashima's grandmother, the narrator revels, "It has never occurred to either of them to question Ashima's grandmother's selection, to disregard an elder's wishes in such a way" (Lahiri 30).

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Chapter 1- The narrator describes the magazine Ashima reads often, "The printed pages of Bengali type, slightly rough to the touch, are a perpetual comfort to her. She’s read each of the short stories and poems and articles a dozen times” (Lahiri 6).

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Chapter 3 - ". . . Gogol, in September of 1973, to his first day of Kindergarten at the town's public elementary school" (Lahiri 60).

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Chapter 1 - "Eight thousand miles away in Cambridge, she has come to know him" (Lahiri 10).

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Chapter 3- After Gogol's mother refuses to put his art from the cemetery up Gogol, "...rolls them up, takes them upstairs, and puts them in his room, behind his chest of drawers, where he knows his mother will never bother to look,..."(Lahiri 76).

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Chapter 3- Gogol goes against what his parents say when he says, "My parents want me to have another name at school." And what about you, Gogol? Do you want to be called by another name?" After a pause he shakes his head. "Is that a no?" He nods. "Yes."(Lahiri 64).

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Mortality

Chapter 2- In chapter 2, Gogol is born and this really is the start of their growing family. "The baby is born at five past five in the morning."(Lahiri 24). In the end of this chapter we learn that Ashima's  grandmother has died and so has her father. “Ashima’s grandmother has mailed the letter herself, walking with her cane to the post office, her first trip out of the house in a decade.”(Lahiri 27). "that her father died yesterday evening, of a heart attack, playing patience on his bed."(Lahiri 49)

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“Of course you must wait, they agree,wait for the name in his great-grandmother’s letter.” (Lahiri 28)

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Chapter 1-“she’d noticed the watch among the cavalcade of matrimonial bracelets on both her arms: iron, gold,coral,conch.”(Lahiri 4)

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Ch. 2: “To put him to sleep, she sings him the Bengali songs her mother had sung to her.”
(Lahiri, pg. 38)

This quote represents the thematic element of Family because it shows how Ashima is starting to get used to being a mother when she sings her son, Gogol, to sleep with “the Bengali songs her mother had sung to her” when she was an infant.

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Ch. 3: “The only way to avoid such confusion, they have concluded, is to do away with the pet name altogether, as many of their Bengali friends have already done. For their daughter, good name and pet name are one and the same: Sonali, meaning ‘she who is golden.’”

(Lahiri, pg. 66)

This quote represents the thematic element of Assimilation because the parents, Ashoke and Ashima, are doing “away with the pet name altogether”. They are conforming to the use of a person having only one name in America, letting go of their former naming traditions.

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chapter 2- "When she had learned of Ashima's pregnancy she approved of Ashima's decision to breastfeed but had been disappointed to learn that Ashima was going to put herself in the hands of a medical establishment for her childs delivery; Judy's daughters were born at home, with the help of midwives at the collective'' (Lahiri 34).

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"Ashima would not have touched the chicken, even if permitted; Americans eat their chicken in its skin..." (Lahiri 5).

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"There is nothing to comfort her in the off-white tiles of the floor, the off-white panels of the ceiling, the white sheets tucked tightly into the bed. In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives" (Lahiri 4).

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“She has adopted his surname, but refuses for propriety’s sake, to utter his first. It’s not the type of thing Bengali wives do. … a husband’s name is something intimate and therefore unspoken” (Lahiri 2).

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“He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread” (Lahiri 12).

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“It has never occurred to either of them to question Ashima’s grandmother’s selection, to disregard an elders wish in such a way” (Lahiri 30)

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chapter 1- Ashima learns the hard parts about pregnancy, “For it was one thing to be pregnant, to suffer from queasy mornings in bed, countless trips to the bathroom, the sleepless nights, and dull throbbing in her back. Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing discomfort, she'd been astonished by her body's ability to make life, exactly how her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmothers had done. (Lahiri 7)

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Chapter 3 - Ashima gives into Gogol's request to eat American foods and, “At his insistence, she concedes and makes him an American dinner once a week as a treat, Shake ‘n Bake chicken or Hamburger Helper prepared with ground lamb” (Lahiri 70).

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Chapter 3- Gogol describing the discrimination his parents face after their mailbox was vandalized “For by now he is aware, in stores, of cashiers smirking at his parents’ accents, and of salesmen who prefer to direct their conversation to Gogol, as though his parents were either incompetent or deaf” (Lahiri 73)

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Chapter 3- Ashime describes her dislike for the field trip Gogol went on, “Only in America are children taken to cemeteries in the name of art. What’s next, she demands to know, a trip to the morgue? In Calcutta the burning ghats are the most forbidden places” (Lahiri 76)

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Chapter 1
Ashima is in labor thinking about the world Golgi will grow up in.
“But she is terrified to raise a child in a country where she is related to no one, where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and sparse.” (Lahiri 6)

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Chapter 2
Ashoke sees his baby open his eyes for the first time.
“The face is transformed; Ashoke has never seen a more perfect thing. He imagines himself as a dark, grainy, blurry presence. As a father to his son. . . . Being rescued from that train had been the first miracle of his life. But here, now, reposing in his arms, weighing nothing but changing everything, is the second.” (Lahiri 26)

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“When she calls out to Ashoke, she doesn’t say his name. Ashima never thinks of her husbands name when she thinks of her husband”

(Lahiri 3)

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Chapter 1- "None of this was supposed to happen but no he had survived it. He was born twice in India and a third time in America, three lives by thirty. For this he thanks his parents and their parents and the parents of their parents. He does not thank God, he openly reveres Marxs and quietly refuses religion,” (Lahiri 23).

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Chapter 2- "At Breakneck speed Ashima knits sweater vests for her father, her father-in-law, her brother, her three favorite uncles. They're all the same v neck, pine green yarn, knit five, purl two, on number 9 needles. The exception is her father's, done in a double seed stitch with two thick cables and buttons down the front; he prefers cardigans to pullovers, and she remembers the pockets for the deck of cards he always carries with him to play patience at a moment's notice. In addition to the sweater she buys him three sable haired paint brushes from the Harvard Coop, sizes he's requested by mail. Though they were wildly more expensive than anything else she's ever bought in America, Ashoke says nothing when he sees the bill,” (Lahiri 44-45).

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Chapter 3 - Upon moving again Ashima reflects upon her adaptation to being a foreigner:   “Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.” (Lahiri 49-50)

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Chapter 3 -  Upon returning home from India Ashoke and Ashima realize, “Once back on Pemberton Road, in the modest house that is suddenly mammoth, there is nothing to remind them; in spite of the hundred or so relatives they’ve just seen, they feel as if they are the only Ganguli’s in the world.”(Lahiri 69).