Who doesn’t know him” (Lahiri 57).Īs a little boy learning new things every day, a name represents something, but this incident fades from Gogol’s mind and he maintains his original name. However, Gogol does not want a name change for “He is afraid to be Nikhil, someone he doesn’t know. The parents want him to have two identities with one represented by the name ‘Nikhil’, which should be used at school to fit in the American culture and ‘Gogol’ to be used at home as a representative of the Indian culture. Gogol is lost early in life when his parents decide to give him a second name after he joins kindergarten.
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