Monday, January 30 review of chapter 3 of The Namesake
Goddess Durga is the mother of the universe and believed to be the power behind the work of creation, preservation, and destruction of the world. Since time immemorial she has been worshiped as the supreme power of the Supreme Being and has been mentioned in many scriptures
Note: you are responsible for the material you miss when you are absent. If you have a legal absence, as noted on the attendance, you have 10 days to make up the work. Otherwise, your late work is worth 50 points.
1. Please turn in your responses for Chapter 3 of The Namesake.
2. Reviewing / discussing the questions and by extension what can be implied about the characters and how they integrate within American society.
what conflicts do you observe?
man vs society
man vs man
man vs self
3. Film clip the namesake begin 18:15
4. Make sure you have read thoroughly through chapter 3 for tomorrow. Do not forget your texts.
Chapter 3 The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri pages 48-71
Name___________________________________
Due on Monday, January 30 at the beginning of class.
Please read chapter 3 and answer the following questions in complete sentences that clearly demonstrate you have read the material. We will review them in class. Those turning in the material after the start of class will receive 50 points. This is the first grade of the 3rd quarter marking period.
Chapter 3 - 1971
1. How does Ashoke like his job as a professor? * weave in text
Ashoke's job is "everything [he] has ever dreamed of" (49) as "he [had] always hoped to teach in a university rather than work for a corporation" (49).
2. Where does the Ganguli family move to? *weave in text
The Ganguli family "moved to a university town outside of Boston" (48), which has "an historic strip of colonial architecture visited by tourists on summer weekends"(48).
3. What is their house like? *weave in text
The Ganguli family lives "in a two-story colonial in a recently built development previously occupied by no one, erected on a quarter acre of land" (51). The walls of the new house are painted, the driveway sealed with pitch, the shingles and sundeck weatherproofed and stained" (51). Gogol's own room has lots of toys bought at garage sales.
4. What are their neighbors like? * weave in text
Their neighbors are named "Johnson, Merton, Aspris and Hill" (59); they are all "Americans" (59)
5. When is the new baby born? Do they name her in the same way that they named Gogol? *weave in text
Unlike when Gogol was born, the Ganguli's are ready with a name, because they don't want the school to use a "pet name". They give their daughter the name "Sonali, meaning she who is golden"(62); this will be her good name and her pet name.
6. What happens at Sonia's rice ceremony? *weave in text
Many Bengalis have moved to the suburbs, and they spend lots of time together. There are so many, in fact, that for Sonia's rice ceremony "Ashoke arranges to rent a building on campus with twenty folding tables and an industrial stove"(63). Sonia "refuses "all the food" and one guest observes "this one is the true American"(63).
7. How are Ashoke and Ashima's children becoming true "Americans?" * weave in text
They begin to "appear no different than their neighbors" (64) The children prefer American holidays, where they "hang stockings on the fireplace mantel" (64), They eat "individually sliced wrapped cheese, tuna fish [and] hot dogs"(65). The children sound "just like Americans" (65).
8. How does Ashima react to Gogol's field trip to the cemetery? * weave in text
Gogol's class made grave rubbings at an old cemetery., where he brings the unusual names "to life", because he likes "their oddness, their flamboyance" (70). Ashima, "however, is horrified", because she knows different customs and believes that "death is not a past time"(70). She refuses to hang up his rubbings.
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