Beginning of the book Namesake shows a women giving a birth
who moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ashima is the women doing a labor while
Ashoke, her husband, goes to hospital to aid her. This was kind of escalating event
in the beginning of the book because in my personal experience, I don’t see a
big event going on at the beginning of the book, so it was kind of hard to
trying to understand the beginning of the book. Eventually baby is born and
named Gogol.
The introduction of the book is
really confusing. Actually not confusing, but more like making the reader to
give curiosity. It like one of those movie cliché where lots of explosion is
going on and you don’t know your plot until you reach the middle of the story.
Its like a movie where you see them in third perspective, while not knowing
what is going on. I think that this book
has an introduction of a sudden thriller movie. This also tells the reader that
if you read the book than you will get more answer. It just provokes your mind
to be curious. Why did they named him Gogol, why did they move to the
Cambridge, why was his name based on author in train crash in India? It draws
many question and makes the reader to uncover the answers that brief introduction
with sudden events. This story makes us feels like a person standing next to
them, while characters can’t see us.
I completely agree with what you're saying about the beginning of the book. The fact that it jumps strait in to Ashima giving birth really got me interested in what was going to happen next. Another thing that I think you got spot on was the movie thriller feeling to the first couple chapters of the "Namesake". Because it seems like there are so many flashbacks and jumping around in stories I became sort of confused but as i keep reading things are becoming more clear. Overall great job!
ReplyDeleteTony, I agree with what you had to say about how abruptly Lahiri began the novel. She throws the reader straight into the excitement and action of childbirth which did make the beginning of the novel a little more difficult to read but caught my attention immediately. Just like you, I have not yet seen the complete plot or conflict yet and a sort of understanding of where the novel is heading. Although, I am very curious and want to keep reading to uncover the mysteries of the lives Ashima and Ashoke before the novel began and Gogol’s future.
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