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Write one page draft and two pages diary entries. Your paper should be based on the book named "The namesake". You should pick up an episode from the book and pretend that you are the main character. It has to be the first person perspective. And the format has to follow the format of diary entry. Thank you!
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DRAFT FOR THE BOOK “THE NAMESAKE” BY Jhumpa Lahiri
The novel, The Namesake is set up from the year 1968 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The book
focuses on events surrounding Ashoke, his family and friends. He is an electrical –engineering
PhD student at MIT. Ashima Ganguli, a caring wife to Ashoke, is pregnant. She gives birth to a
son who is named Gogol after Nikolai Gogol, His father’s favorite Russian writer. Ashoke loved
the Russian writer so much that he was reading his book on that fateful day of the train accident.
A page from the book led to authorities to discover him from the wreckage hence his rescue.
The book explores the theme of discovery through the lives of Ashima and Ashoke; and their son
Gogol.
Ashima and Ashoke get to know each other through their parents. They initially discover they
like each other and decide to date. Together they move to United States from India. As a family,
they settle in Cambridge as their new home. They readjust to new life with a son. Ashima learns
to take care of Gogol and she even takes her to school. The couple discovers the demise of
Ashima’s sudden dead at the time when they are planning a visit back to Calcutta, India.
The family later relocates to Boston where Ashoke has found a lecturing duty. Here, Gogol
commences his preschool an...