The Namesake(159-245)

Summary

Christmas time is comming around and Ashima is starting to do the christmas cards to all her family and friends.This time she is making them herself.Ashima feels really lonely because her kids moved so far and he husband went out of town. Gogol moved to New York and Sonia moved to California. Ashima and Ashoke still doesn't approve of Gogol dating Maxine she really doesn't want her as a daughter in law. Later on Ashima recieved a phone call and it was from the hospital and they told her that her husband died. Ashima was not trying to hear that she couldn't believe it because she was just talking to him a few hours before. She calls Sonia and she comes to stay with her and Gogol comes down also. A year later after their father's death Gogol stayed in New York and his relationship with Maxine was over. On the weekends he takes the train to Massachusetts to the house that has his father's photographs in. Gogol's mom begins to call him and suggesting to him that he should call a family friends daughter. Later he begins to become attacted to Moushumi. When they had the meeting he would share the memories with her. they ended up getting together and they got married within a year.


Quote
A quote i decided to choose was " What in the world made your parents choose that name(Lahiri 244)". I decided to pick that quote because I thought it was really important. See they don't know that there was a good reason of why they chose to name him that. Later on he finally realizes why his father would chose that kind of name for him.


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So far many things have happened in the story. There was lessons learned and hearts broken. The last past chapters that I have read it shows that no matter how much problems you have and go through with your family you still stick together and love eachother. That's what the Ganguli family did.