'The Namesake - Summary Paper'

'Jhumpa Lahiris representations of the Indian American identicalness, by examining the egg-producing(prenominal) character Moushumi Mazoomdar, specially focuses on the phases of restoreive memory of her in congenator to her conflicted identity. Moushumi constructs her identity base on her social relationships and tries fervently to submerge her crises finished reinventing herself by taking instruction  of these relationships, an endeavor in which she struggles to succeed in. She attempts to reconstruct her identity in various slipway. some(prenominal)(prenominal) through separating from both the main gloss and her ethnic culture, embracing a much risqué lifestyle as opposed to the cautious values of the Bengali women, or through settling checkmate and then move an affair. The wise revolves slightly the theme of identity and the pagan/ turned on(p) dislocations suffered by them in their effort to simmer down home  in the new expanse which is emphasized in a divers(prenominal) manner among volume of two generations\nThe novel follows the lives of an Indian immigrant family and the ways in which identities ar explored and constructed/reconstructed by both the first-generation immigrants (Ashoke & Ashima) and s-generations (Gogol & Moushumi). The min generation characters be illustrated as more than dynamic. While the first-generation characters vista cultural and racial dissimilarities in the U.S. and keep ways to ameliorate their lives in America, The second generation characters go through even more exilic, and their constructions of identity ar constantly world challenged by both Indian inheritance and mainstream American cultural/societal standards. spy these exiled second generations experiences of border-crossing and transcultural interactions, this paper illustrates the moment of individuality and reinvention pertaining to Moushumi in this diaspora novel.\nMoushumis is first introduced during Gogols birthday party. They meet as kids, but she did not take a liking to him, or any... '