The Namesake Themes (Period 6/7) by Elizabeth VanWienen https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d The plan here is to collect several quotes to support each theme! You must add at least one quotes to this document per chapter grouping. The quotes cannot do duplicated. Be sure to put your name and the chapter # as the title, write a quote tag, and use proper internal citation with the author's last name and the page number. en-us 2020-10-13 01:37:36 UTC 2020-11-12 16:38:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Mrs. V - Chapter 2 evanwienen https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825303673 Ashima says with great excitement to Ashoke, "...." (Lahiri 52).]]> 2020-10-13 15:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825303673 Molly Southworth https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825308863 Chapter 2: When Gogol is 6 months old a ceremony is thrown for Gogol and described as, “The occasion: Gogol’s annaprasn, his rice ceremony. There is no baptism for Bengali babies, no ritualistic naming in the eyes of God. Instead, the first formal ceremony of their lives centers around the consumption of solid food. They ask Dilip Nandi to play the part of Ashima’s brother, to hold the child and feed him rice, the Bengali staff of life, for the very first time” (Lahini 41-42).



]]> 2020-10-13 15:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825308863 Morgan Henry- Chapter 1 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825309643  While Ashima is in the hospital, she thinks to herself with intense worry, "It is the first time in her life she has slept alone, surrounded by strangers"(Lahari 3).]]> 2020-10-13 15:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825309643 Ava Arora - Chapter2 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825315391 As Ashima looks at her newborn son, she feels sorrow knowing that  "The baby's birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true. As she studies her son, she can't help but pity him. She has never known of a person entering the world so alone, so deprived" (Lahiri 27).]]> 2020-10-13 15:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825315391 Sara Jacobi - Chapter 1 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825323686  The narrator describes Ashima's marriage experience, emphasizing its hast, ¨It was only after the betrothal that she'd learned his name. One week after the invitations were printed and two weeks after that she was adorned
and adjusted by countless aunts, countless cousins hovering around her. These were the last moments
as Ashima Bhaduri, before becoming Ashima Ganguli” (Lahiri 11).]]> 2020-10-13 15:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825323686 Morgan Henry-Chapter 2 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825325809  When chosing a name for their son, Ashima and Ashoke discuss their sons pet name, "“In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments”(Lahari 28).

]]> 2020-10-13 15:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825325809 Molly Southworth https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825327860 Chapter 3: During Halloween Gogol sees his name written differently and angerly reflects on the differences between how he and his parents are treated by thinking, “His ears burn at the sight, and he runs back into the house, sickened, certain of the insult his father will feel. Though it is his last name, too, something tells Gogol that the desecration is intended for his parents more than Sonia and him. 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”(Lahini 73).]]> 2020-10-13 15:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825327860 Ava Arora - Chapter 3 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825329985 After Gogol witnesses multiple acts of prejudice against his family, he begins to realize "[t]hat the desecration is intended for his parents more than Sonia and him. 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). ]]> 2020-10-13 15:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825329985 Sara Jacobi- Chapter 3 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825338185 The narrator describes the change in the Ganguli family's meals from Ashima's traditional meals, writing, “For Gogol's lunches they stand at the deli to buy
cold cuts, and in the mornings Ashima makes sandwiches with bologna or roast beef. 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).]]> 2020-10-13 15:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825338185 Jaia Black jblac0111 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825369815 Chapter 3: With their family living in India Gogol's memory of family are the other Bengalis from Cambridge on Saturdays, " Saturday will consist of a single repeated scene of thirty-odd people in a three bedroom suburban house..." (Lahari 67)]]> 2020-10-13 15:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825369815 Naomi Sanford nsanf000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825379963 Chapter 1: “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 8)

]]> 2020-10-13 15:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825379963 Naomi Sanford nsanf000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825408433 Chapter 1: "...a husbands name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleaverly patched over." (Lahiri 2)]]> 2020-10-13 15:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825408433 Jaia Black jblac0111 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825412572 Chapter 3: Its time for Gogol to go to school and he now needs a good name his parents come up with the name Nikhil, "But Gogol doesn't want a new name. He can't understand why he has to answer anything else". His parents assure him that the name will only be used in public; but this is just a part of him getting older.(Lahari 61) ]]> 2020-10-13 15:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825412572 Anna Youtsey- Chapter 2 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825439411  ”In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam… the name which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates” (Lahari pg 28). ]]> 2020-10-13 15:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825439411 Anna Youtsey https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825454478 Chapter 1: Ashima is transitioning to adulthood with this marriage and baby, more responsibilities. ”The babys head is in the proper position, has already began to descent” (Lahiri pg 3).]]> 2020-10-13 15:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825454478 Brody Friend bfrie000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825455229 Chapter 1: The narrator says, "But his grandfather had recently gone blind, and he has requested Ashoke's company specifically, to read... Ashoke accepted the invitation eagerly" (Lahiri 14)]]> 2020-10-13 15:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825455229 Brody Friend bfrie000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825481168 Chapter 3: The narrator says, "For being foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts" (Lahiri 53-54). ]]> 2020-10-13 16:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825481168 Natalie Snyder- Chapter 1 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825610819 The story begins when “On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl. She adds salt, lemon juice, thin slices of green chili pepper, wishing there were mustard oil to put in the mix...a humble approximation of the snack sold on Calcutta sidewalks” (Lahiri 1).]]> 2020-10-13 16:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825610819 Natalie Snyder- Chapter 2 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825629414 “By February, when Gogol is six months old, Ashima and Ashoke know enough people to entertain on a proper scale. The occasion, Gogol annaprasan, his rice ceremony. There is no baptism for Bengali babies, no ritualistic naming in the eyes of God. Instead, the first formal ceremony of their lives centers around the consumption of solid food” (Lahiri 41-42).

]]> 2020-10-13 16:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/825629414 Kevion Wellington https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/827251183 Chapter three... Gogol has a memory with her family on a Saturday " Saturday will consist of a single repeated scene of thirty-odd people in a three bedroom suburban house." ]]> 2020-10-14 02:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/827251183 Helena Cupp - Chapter One hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828834214 Ashima makes a mistake when speaking to the nurse. “...helping them to pronounce words like sigh and cough, to understand the difference between Aristotelian and Shakespearean tragedy. But in Bengali, a finger can also mean fingers, a toe toes.” (Lahiri - 7)


]]> 2020-10-14 14:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828834214 Helena Cupp - Chapter One hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828839746 Ashima is getting ready to give birth to her first child. “We are expecting a perfectly normal delivery Mrs. Ganguli.” (Lahiri - 6)



]]> 2020-10-14 14:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828839746 Helena Cupp - Chapter 2 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828844099 We are learning what Gogle calls his parents based on traditions and culture.“He calls him mother ‘Ma,’ his father ‘Baba.” (Lahiri - 44)




]]> 2020-10-14 14:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828844099 Helena Cupp - Chapter 2 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828850793 The Gangolis are trying to pick a name for their child before they leave the hospital. “Names can wait. In India parents take their time. It wasn't unusual for years to pass until the right name came,the best possible name, was determined.” (Lahiri - 27)


]]> 2020-10-14 14:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828850793 Helena Cupp - Chapter 3 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828855935 We are learning that Gogle must get used to being called by his good name at school. “It’s very common for a child to be confused at first. Please just give it some time. I assure you he will grow accustomed.” (Lahiri - 63)


]]> 2020-10-14 14:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828855935 Helena Cupp - Chapter 3 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828859121 Gogle is growing up and becoming accustomed to his name being diffrent.“ As a young boy Gogle doesn't mind his name… it all seems perfectly normal.” (Lahiri - 71)



]]> 2020-10-14 14:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828859121 Violet Davis- chapter 1 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828946400 Chapter 1: “Then a man's Voice: “I love you, Sweetheart.” Words Ashima has has neither heard or expects to hear from her own husband; this is not how they are” (Lahiri pg 3)]]> 2020-10-14 15:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828946400 Violet Davis https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828956384 Chapter 2: “Within Bengali families, individual names are sacred, inviolable.They are not meant to be inherited or shared.” (Lahiri pg 30)

]]> 2020-10-14 15:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/828956384 ecant000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/829107586 2020-10-14 15:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/829107586 Ethan Cantrell ecant000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/829146203 The narrator gives insight to their family life by saying, “When she calls out to Ashoke, she doesn’t say his name. Ashima never thinks of her husband’s name when she thinks of her husband, even though she knows perfectly well what it is” (Lahiri 2). 

]]> 2020-10-14 15:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/829146203 Nya Malott https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/830047003 Chapter 1: “That it is happening so far from home, unmonitored and unobserved by those she loved, had to make it more miraculous still. 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 spare. (Lahiri ]]> 2020-10-14 19:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/830047003 Gabe Morgenstern https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/830478712 Chapter 2: As everyone is gathering in the rooma after Gogol's birth Ashima says, “Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby’s birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true.” (Lahiri 27)


]]> 2020-10-14 23:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/830478712 Gabe Morgenstern https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/830482335 Chapter 3: When Ashima is descibing the changes they made as Gogol grew up she says, “In the supermarket they let Gogol fill the cart with items that he and Sonia, but not they, consume” (Lahiri 70)


]]> 2020-10-14 23:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/830482335 De´Janea Evans https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/832481496 Chapter 1:¨tall for a Bengali women,complexion on the dark side of fair.¨(Lahari-9)]]> 2020-10-15 14:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/832481496 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/832674736 "Besides, its only a pet name, not to be taken seriously, simply something to put on the certificate for now to release them from the hospital." ( Lahiri 31) ]]> 2020-10-15 15:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/832674736 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/832700378 "Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated." ( Lahiri 28) 

]]> 2020-10-15 15:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/832700378 Maddie Thomason https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/834102306 Chapter 1: " And then a mans voice"I love you sweetheart" Words Ashima has neither heard nor expects to hear from her own husband." How Marriage isn't always something done for love and it isn't always a key factor when getting married. Sometimes it is arranged and done out of neccesity.]]> 2020-10-15 22:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/834102306 lily hannon https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/834228654 Chapter one: "Ashima has been consuming this concoction throughout her pregnancy, a humble approximation of the snack sold for pennies on Calcutta sidewalks and on railway platforms throughout India, spilling from newspaper cones. Even now that there is barely space inside her, it is the one thing she craves. Tasting from a cupped palm, she frowns; as usual there’s something missing." 

Chapter Three: "Ashamed at the thought of buying what had originally belonged to strangers, American strangers at that"

]]> 2020-10-15 23:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/834228654 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/834228937 2020-10-15 23:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/834228937 Lexy awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/836138734 Chapter 2: 
“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)]]> 2020-10-16 16:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/836138734 Lexy awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/836144890 Chapter 3: 
Ashima is shocked about Indian traditions after Gogol visits the cemetery and says "In Calcutta the burning ghats are the most forbidden of places, she tells Gogol, and though she tries her best not to, though she was here, not there, both times it happened, she sees her parents' bodies, swallowed by flames. 'Death is not a pastime,"(Lahiri, 76)

]]> 2020-10-16 16:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/836144890 Molly Southworth- Chapter 4 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/841835358 When Gogol's class is studying the Russian author Gogol, he vehemently thinks to himself, “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. He hates having to live with it, with a pet name turned good name, day after day, second after second” (Lahiri 81).]]> 2020-10-19 16:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/841835358 Natalie Snyder- Chapter 4 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/841884600 “He stares at the commuters who cling precariously to trams in buses, threatening at any moment to spill onto the street, and at the family to boil rice and shampoo their hair on the sidewalk. At his mother's flat Amherst Street, where his uncle's family lives now, neighbors look from their windows and roofs as Gogol and his family emerge from the taxi” (Lahiri 87-88).

]]> 2020-10-19 16:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/841884600 Ava Arora - Chapter 5 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/841889344 Ashoke finally tells Gogol the story of the train accident, and as Gogol realizes that his name means much more than a author, he thinks, "Suddenly the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father as he has been accustomed to hearing it all his life, means something completely new, bound up with a catastrophe he has unwittingly embodied for years" (Lahiri 133).]]> 2020-10-19 16:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/841889344 Morgan Henry- Chapter 5 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/842863158 When Nikihil's father tells him about the orgins of his name Nikihil questions his fathers happiness, "Do I remind you of that night?" His father replies "Not at all... You remind me of everything that followed"(Lahari 133).]]> 2020-10-19 21:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/842863158 Naomi Sanford nsanf000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843041337 "It is neither Indian nor American but of all things Russian." (Lahiri 4)]]> 2020-10-19 23:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843041337 Gabe Morgenstern - Chapter 4 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843047014 At home, Gogol is thinking about his name and he thinks, “For by now, he’s come to hate questions pertaining to his name, hates having constantly to explain. He hates having to tell people that it doesn’t mean anything ‘in Indian’” (Lahiri 81)]]> 2020-10-19 23:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843047014 Sara Jacobi - Chapter 6 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843201897 As Gogol tells Maxine about more of his family life, “She is surprised to hear certain things about his life:  the oldest parents' friends are Bengali, that they had had an arranged marriage, that his mother cooks Indian food everyday, that she wears saris and  a bindi” (Lahiri 148).

]]> 2020-10-20 00:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843201897 Nya Malott nmalo000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843316071 Chapter 4: 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) ]]> 2020-10-20 02:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/843316071 Violet Davis- chapter 6 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845361245 Towards the beginning of Maxine and his relationship he thinks, “There is none of the exasperation he feels with his own parents. No sense of obligation. Unlike his parents, they pressure her to do nothing, and yet she lives faithfully, happily, at their side.” (Lahiri 148)

]]> 2020-10-20 15:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845361245 Helena Cupp - Chapter 5 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845367943 Gogle is talking to his father about the train accident, showing a big intersection between the two. “Not at all’ his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogle until now. ‘You remind me of everything that followed.” (Lahiri - 133)

]]> 2020-10-20 15:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845367943 Helena Cupp - 5 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845373228 Gogle is explaining to the judge that he wants to change his name, and why. “I hate the name Gogle’ he says, ‘I’ve always hated it.” (Lahiri - 109)


]]> 2020-10-20 15:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845373228 Helena Cupp - Chapter 6 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845380752 Gogle is feeling out of place with the meal his mother has cooked for the two. “It is a meal he knows it has taken his mother over a day to prepare, and yet the amount of effort embarrassed him.” (Lahiri - 159)


]]> 2020-10-20 15:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845380752 Helena Cupp - Chapter 4 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845387010 Here we see Gogle taking the role of an American teenager, because he might not act like this otherwise. “Gogle flips the record, turning the volume up… ‘What’s that?’ Gogle says. A bit impacientally.” (Lahiri - 83)

]]> 2020-10-20 15:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845387010 Brody Friend - Chapter 5 bfrie000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845392004 The narrator said this when Gogol was thinking of changing his name, “The only person who didn’t take Gogol seriously, the only person who tormented him, the only person chronically aware of and afflicted by the embarrassment of his name, the only person who constantly questioned it and wished it were otherwise, was Gogol”(Lahiri 107).

]]> 2020-10-20 15:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845392004 Ethan Cantrell - Chapter 5 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845392784 Gogol was named after a Russian author because he was the author of the book that saved his fathers life from a train wreck. Gogol takes offense to this because he believes that he is only remembered for his father´s hard times. His father reassures him saying, ¨You remind me of everything that followed” (Lahiri 133). This gives Gogol more insight into who he is and how his parents perceive him.

]]> 2020-10-20 15:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845392784 Helena Cupp - Chapter 4 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845393243 Gogle is experiencing his first kiss, a true coming of age event. “...he is brave that evening, kissing her lightly on the mouth as she is talking to him, his leg pressed gently against her leg on the sofa, briefly running a hand through her hair.” (Lahiri - 103)


]]> 2020-10-20 15:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845393243 Helena Cupp - Chapter 4 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845395917 Here we can see the Ashima is talking about her father being an artist, a tradition that Gogle takes on in his drawings. “...he is brave that evening, kissing her lightly on the mouth as she is talking to him, his leg pressed gently against her leg on the sofa, briefly running a hand through her hair.” (Lahiri - 103)


]]> 2020-10-20 15:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/845395917 Maddie Thomason- Chapter 4 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/846797191 “He’s come to hate questions pertaining to his name, hates having constantly to explain. He hates having to tell people mean anything ‘in Indian’. He hates having to wear a name tag on his sweater at Model united Nations Day at school he even hates signing his signature at the bottom of his drawings in art class” (Lahiri, 81). ]]> 2020-10-20 22:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/846797191 Morgan Wide https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847050371 " Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people." (Lahiri)]]> 2020-10-21 00:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847050371 Morgan Wide https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847058234 " One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist." (Lahiri)]]> 2020-10-21 00:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847058234 Morgan Wide- Chapter 3 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847068785  "Ashamed at the thought of buying what had originally belonged to strangers, American strangers at that"(Lahiri)]]> 2020-10-21 00:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847068785 Kevion chapter 5 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847311151 He doesn' feel like Nikhil. Not yet. Part of the problem is that the people who now know him as Nikhil have no idea that he used to be Gogol. They know him only in the present, not at all in the past. But after eighteen years of Gogol, two months of Nikhil feel scant, inconsequential. At times he feels as if he’s cast himself in a play, acting the part of twins, indistinguishable to the naked eye yet fundamentally different. (lahari 106



]]> 2020-10-21 03:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847311151 Kevion chapter 6 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847315561 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 sicjk
..actually thats not true (Lahiri 138)
]]> 2020-10-21 03:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847315561 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847368393 Chapter 6
When Gogol and Maxine arrive at his parents house , this happens “His parents are different around Maxine, at first keeping their distance, not boisterous as they typically are around their Bengali friends. They ask where she went to college, what it is her parents do”(Lahiri 159) 

]]> 2020-10-21 03:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847368393 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847377090 Chapter 4
"Not only does Gongol Ganguli have a pet name turned good name but a last name turned first name. And so it occurs to him that no one he knows in the world, in Russia or India or America or anywhere, shares his name." ( Lahiri 84) ]]> 2020-10-21 03:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/847377090 Jaia Black- chapter 4 jblac0111 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849111768 Gogol treats his "other name" Nikhil as a completely separate identity after his first party when he kisses a girl for the first time, "He shakes his head in daze, as astonished as they are, elation still welling inside him. “It wasn't 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”.  (Lahari 103)   ]]> 2020-10-21 15:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849111768 Lexy West - Chapter 4 awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849118607 Slowly Gogol starts doing things in a "more American" way, 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) ]]> 2020-10-21 15:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849118607 Lexy West - Chapter 5 awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849128122 Gogol has just changed his name and feels lighter because of it saying, "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 109-110).]]> 2020-10-21 15:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849128122 awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849131008 2020-10-21 15:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/849131008 Anna Youtsey-Chapter 5 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/851074744 “What is the reason you wish to change your name, Mr. Ganguli” (Lahri pg 108).

]]> 2020-10-22 03:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/851074744 Molly Southworth- Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/859912967 While going through his father's apartment Gogol remembers what Ashima said to him recalling, “He goes to work immediately, going through the room and putting things into garbage bags: the spices, the cold cream, the issue of Time magazine by his father’s bed. ‘Don’t bring anything back.’ his mother told him on the phone. ‘It’s not our way” (Lahiri 188).]]> 2020-10-25 22:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/859912967 Lyric Asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/859921003 I learned what Gogle calls his parents based on there traditions He calls his dad "Baba" and his mom "Ma"]]> 2020-10-25 22:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/859921003 Lyric Asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/860055987 a husbands name is something intimate and personal which is unspoken, cleverly patched over." Chapter 1]]> 2020-10-26 00:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/860055987 Lyric Asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/860059318
Chapter Three: "Ashamed at the thought of buying what had originally belonged to strangers, American strangers at that"

]]> 2020-10-26 00:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/860059318 Lyric Asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/860091892 2020-10-26 00:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/860091892 Jaia Black- chapter 7 jblac0111 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862066354 It is tradition or Bengali families to not eat meat or fish for so many days after the passing of a family member. "For ten days following his father's death, he and his mother and Sonia eat a mourners diet, forgoing meat and fish. They eat only rice and dal and  vegetables, plainly prepared." (Lahari 193) ]]> 2020-10-26 15:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862066354 Brody Friend - Chapter 7 bfrie000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862159737 After Ashokes' death this is what the family did, "For ten days following his father's death, he and his mother and Sonia eat a mourner's diet, forgoing meat and fish"(Lahiri 193).]]> 2020-10-26 15:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862159737 Violet Davis- Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862212822 While alone Ashima considers how upset she was that Sonia and Gogol didn't come home for thanks giving. “She had complained to her friends at the library, they had told her it was inevitable, that eventually parents had to stop assuming that their children would return faithfully for the holidays.” (Lahiri 179)]]> 2020-10-26 15:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862212822 Ava Arora - Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862323630 Gogol admires Moushumi as he watches her transform in Paris thinking, "She was exactly the same person, looked and behaved the same way, and yet suddenly, in that new city, she was transformed into the kind of girl she had once envied, had once believed she would never become" (Lahiri 230). ]]> 2020-10-26 15:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/862323630 Nya Malott nmalo000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/863258608 Chapter 9:“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… Part of him knows this is a privilege, to be here with a person who knows the city so well, but the other part of him wants simply to be a tourist, fumbling with a phrase book, looking at all the buildings on his list getting lost."(246,247) Another time in his life where Nikhil isn't fitting in being who he is.


]]> 2020-10-26 19:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/863258608 Naomi Sanford Chapter - 7 nsanf000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/863361845 During the mourning period the family is going through for ashoke they do not eat any meat. To wich Gogol says, "“This meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense. “ (Lahriri 194)


]]> 2020-10-26 19:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/863361845 Morgan Henry- Chapter 8 mhenr115 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/863787694 After the news of Maxine and Gogol's break up reaches Ashima she begins to worry he won't get married(which is encouraged in Bengali tradition), "When he tells her that he isn't even thirty, she tells him that by that age she had already celebrated her tenth wedding anniversary"(Lahari 204).]]> 2020-10-26 22:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/863787694 Sara Jacobi - Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/866283567 Ashima still doesn't use Gogol's new name and sticks to her Bengali herritage, as Lahiri writes, “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).

]]> 2020-10-27 15:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/866283567 awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/866553010 2020-10-27 16:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/866553010 Lexy West - Chapter 9 awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/866571758 “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).]]> 2020-10-27 16:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/866571758 Maddie Thomason Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867706280 Ashima is in a sate of shock as she is told that her Husband has died. “Expired. A word used for library cards, for magazine subscriptions. A word which, for several seconds, has no effect whatsoever on Ashima. ‘No, no it must be a mistake,’ Ashima says calmly shaking her head, a small laugh escaping from her throat. ‘My husband is not there for an emergency. Only for a stomachache’” (Lahiri, 181)]]> 2020-10-27 21:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867706280 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867768462 Chapter 9- Gogol gets very upset when Moushumi reveals his name at a party, " ‘He’d confessed to [Moushumi] that he still felt guilty at times...she’d assured him that it was understandable, that anyone in his place would have done the same. But now it’s become a joke to her. Suddenly he regrets ev
er having told Moushumi; he wonders whether she’ll proclaim the story of his father’s accident to the table as well’ (Lahiri 260).

]]> 2020-10-27 22:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867768462 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867771643 Chapter 8- Gogol reflects on advice Ashima gave him about arguing a lot, "“He works to remain calm during these conversations, not to accuse her of meddling, as he once would have done”(Lahiri 204)


]]> 2020-10-27 22:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867771643 Gabe Morgenstern - Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867995835 When Gogol is remembering the rituals they did for his grandparents after their death he says, “He remembers back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed...Now...there is no question of skipping this meal” (Lahiri 193-194).


]]> 2020-10-28 00:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/867995835 Morgan Wide - Chapter 2 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/868013804 "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).]]> 2020-10-28 00:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/868013804 Anna Youtsey-Chapter 8 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/868271044 “She went to movies by herself, sometimes as many as three a day” (Lahiri pg 233)-this is about Moushumi]]> 2020-10-28 03:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/868271044 Natalie Snyder- Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/870075943 2020-10-28 15:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/870075943 Ethan Cantrell - Chapter 7 ecant000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/872019884 Gogol's mother does not approve of Maxine because of her culture. It is tradition to be with someone of Bengalian heritage. The narrator explains her frustration with this, saying, “Ashima doesn’t want her for a daughter in law...by now Ashima knows Gogol spends his nights with Maxine, sleeping under the same roof as her parents, a thing Ashima refuses to admit to her Bengali friends”(Lahiri 178).
She can't even speak to her friends about it.

]]> 2020-10-29 03:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/872019884 Molly Southworth- Chapter 12 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/882035328 As Ashima makes preparations to leave her house, Gogol reflects on his name thinking to himself, “As for all the people in the house, all the mashis and meshos to whom he is still, and will always be, Gogol- now that his mother is moving away, how often will he see them? Without the people in the world to call him Gogol, no matter how long he himself lives, Gogol Ganguli will, once and for all, vanish from the lips of loved ones, and so, cease to exist. Yet the thought of this eventual demise provides no sense of victory, no solace. It provides no solace at all” (Lahiri 308).]]> 2020-11-02 12:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/882035328 Morgan Henry- Chapter 10 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/882935150 While Moushumi is having an affair with Dimitri she expresses her feeling of liberation throughout the experience, "On Mondays and Wednesday no one knows where she is. 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”(Lahari 281).]]> 2020-11-02 16:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/882935150 Jaia Black- chapter 12 jblac0111 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/883346833 With his blood family living in India Gogol and Sonia have honorary family members and because his mother always puts together family function he wonders if he will see his known family anymore. "As for all the people in the house, all the mashis and meshos to whom he is still, and always will be, Gogol--now that his mother is moving away, how often will he still see them? Without people in the world to call him Gogol, no matter how long he himself lives, Gogol Ganguli will, once and for all, vanish from the lips of loved one, and so cease to exist." (Lahari 308)]]> 2020-11-02 17:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/883346833 Ava Arora - Chapter 12 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/883591322 Ashima realizes that as time goes on, she feels more comfortable in America than India thinking, "She has learned to do things on her own, and though she still wears saris and puts her hair in a bun, she is not the same Ashima who had once lived in Calcutta. She will return to India with an America passport" (Lahiri 294). ]]> 2020-11-02 18:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/883591322 Maddie Thomason Chapter 10 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884177049 “ She wonders if she is the only women n her family to ever have betrayed her husband, to have been unfaithful.” (Lahiri 284). Thi is Moushumi thinking about the affair that she is having with Dimitri and how no one in her family has ever done anything like it before.]]> 2020-11-02 21:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884177049 Naomi Sanford - Chapter 11 nsanf000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884437779 Gogol is spending this Christmas without his family or in laws. This was Gogol in a way breaking his tradition. “It was the first time he had not gone to his parents’ or to his in-laws’ for a holiday.”(Lahiri 288)


]]> 2020-11-02 23:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884437779 Lexy West - Chapter 12 awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884578366 Ashima reflects on her life without her husband, “Ashima feels lonely suddenly, horribly, permanently alone.” (Ashima 297)]]> 2020-11-03 01:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884578366 Lexy West - Chapter 11 awest009 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884626675 Gogol and Moushumi host their first holiday together, “Last weekend 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” (Lahiri 288).]]> 2020-11-03 01:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884626675 Anna Youtsey-Chapter 12 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884841423 “The spine cracks slightly when he opens it to the title page. The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol. For Gogol Ganguli, it says on the front endpaper in his fathers tranquil hand...” (Lahiri pg 307).]]> 2020-11-03 03:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884841423 Helena Cupp - Chapter 12 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884961830 Gogle finds the book Ashoke have him years ago. “But for now his mother is distracted, laughing at a story a friend is telling her, unaware of her son's absence. For now, he starts to read.” (Lahiri - 310)



]]> 2020-11-03 04:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884961830 Helena Cupp - Chapter 10 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884963938 Moshumi makes the decition ti cheat on her husband. “Only then does he touch her...after 🤬...their limbs are tanhled together..”(Lahiri - 280)


]]> 2020-11-03 04:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884963938 Helena Cupp - Chapter 11 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884965538 Gogle feels distant from his wife. “She accused him of nothing, but more and more hr sensed her distance, her dissatisfaction, her distraction. (Lahiri - 189) 


]]> 2020-11-03 04:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884965538 Helena Cupp - Chapter 11 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884967591 Gogle pays close attention to what his wife likes, and gets it for her. “...to buy some of her favorite things, blood oranges, a wedge of cheese…” (Lahiri - 290)


]]> 2020-11-03 04:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884967591 Helena Cupp - Chapter 10 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884969408 The couple celebrates their one year. “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) 


]]> 2020-11-03 04:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884969408 Helena Cupp - Chapter 12 hcupp000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884970285 Ashima is preparing for her party.“Ashima Ganguli sits at her kitchen table, making mincemeat croquettes for a party she is throwing that evening.” (Lahiri - 292)



]]> 2020-11-03 04:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/884970285 lyric asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886068298 Without people in the world to call him Gogol, no matter how long he himself lives, Gogol Ganguli will, once and for all, vanish from the lips of loved one, and so cease to exist." (Lahari 308)]]> 2020-11-03 13:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886068298 Lyric Asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886098569  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).]]> 2020-11-03 13:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886098569 Lyric asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886129665  As she studies her son, she can't help but pity him. She has never known of a person entering the world so alone, so deprived" (Lahiri 27).]]> 2020-11-03 13:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886129665 Lyric Asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886199925 She adds salt, lemon juice, thin slices of green chili pepper, wishing there were mustard oil to put in the mix...a humble approximation of the snack sold on Calcutta sidewalks” (Lahiri 1).]]> 2020-11-03 13:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886199925 Lyric asabi https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886234117 They ask Dilip Nandi to play the part of Ashima’s brother, to hold the child and feed him rice, the Bengali staff of life, for the very first time” (Lahini 41-42).

]]> 2020-11-03 13:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886234117 Sara Jacobi-Chapter 12 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886784691 Gogol nostalgically reflects on his family and events in his life, and how they have shaped who he is, thinking, “In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one accident begetting another… And yet these events have formed Gogol, shaped him, determined who he is” (Lahiri 306). 


]]> 2020-11-03 16:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/886784691 Ethan Cantrell - Chapter 12 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888128204 Gogol has matured over the book and believes his name "has always felt adopted for him… yet it was for him, for Sonia, that his parents had gone through the trouble of learning these customs” (Lahiri 305). He realizes what his parents have gone thought to give him what he did not want for so long.]]> 2020-11-03 23:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888128204 Gabe Morgenstern - Chapter 10 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888201007 While preparing for dinner reservations Moushumi thinks about her marriage, “He was not who she saw herself ending up with…falling in love with him, 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).


]]> 2020-11-04 00:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888201007 Brody Friend - Chapter 11 bfrie000 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888370353 Gogol started to feel as if he was losing Moushumi and this is what he said,“She accused him of nothing, but more and more he sensed her distance, her dissatisfaction. But there had been no time to dwell on this story” (Lahiri 289). ]]> 2020-11-04 01:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888370353 Morgan Wide Chapter 1 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888520278 Ashima started wondering, “She wonders if she is the only Indian person in the hospital , but a gentle twitch from the baby reminds her that she is, technically speaking, not alone” (Lahiri 4). ]]> 2020-11-04 03:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/888520278 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/890393276 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)
]]> 2020-11-04 15:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/890393276 Rayne Ball rball004 https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/890401797 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). ]]> 2020-11-04 15:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/evanwienen/tvjfn4z3peu575d/wish/890401797