Gogol finally changes his “good name” to Nikhil; the one his parents wanted him to have when he was small. Nikhil spent his full life in exploring, searching and transforming himself. However, as he grows older, he comes to appreciate what his parents went through while moving to this country and how hard it was for them to adapt to their adopted country. It won’t be wrong to say that it is a novel of self discovery and is very well written. CRITICAL ANALYSIS: The Namesake takes the reader behind the closed doors of people who have immigrated to find a better life and the challenges they unexpectedly discover in the process.
Rochester changed her life in many ways; he made her view her life in a better perspective, a more confident, a more passionate, and more hopeful life. After Rochester revealed that he was already married, Jane's life went into turmoil. She looked to God after she lost hope in humanity. After Thorn field, Jane found herself homeless in the streets. The Moor House took Jane in and Jane met a new family; Mary, St. John and Diana whom turned out to be her cousins.
The first insight into Mr. Luria’s character may be found through his past. As an immigrant from Russia, he most likely came to Canada to seek a better life and to be able to practice his religion with more freedom. Still, even his family can notice that “he searched without knowing it for landscapes that were like his old time” and Mrs. MacNeil remarks knowingly, even without meeting Mr Luria, that “we’re always scheming to get back.” Preserving his culture has always been a key goal in Mr. Luria’s life, and his dreams have been filled with building “an ideal [Jewish] farm community” with his family at the center of this settlement. He is not a greedy or selfish man, instead choosing to focus on bettering the life of his family and those around them, and insuring that they are content and pleased. However, his views sometimes come into conflict with those of his children, who were born in Canada and do not quite understand his convictions with preserving their culture.
Using the first-person point of view in the novel, the author makes readers feel as though they are experiencing the protagonist’s personal feeling and thoughts about particular people or scenes. For example, when he is attending the opening ceremony of his father’s orphanage, Amir says that he” wished they’d all died along with their parents” (19), and this personalized emotion clearly depicts his strong desire for his father’s love and attention. Also, the writer uses this literary device to enhances the ability of the reader to follow Amir’s epic journey from childhood to his adult self. Therefore, the reader directly perceives Amir’s emotions and thoughts transforming throughout the novel. Amir starts off as a loving and caring person—when Hassen is insulted by the soldiers, “I reached across [Hassen’s] seat, slung my arm around [Hassen], pulled [Hassen] close.
One book was called “The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model”, and I believe it was very aptly named. (Boyd) The recovering alcoholic family is and always will be a work in progress. Each member has things in their lives that they have to open up and deal with. The scars of alcohol abuse run deep, not only physically and psychologically, but also through every avenue of each family member’s heart to their very soul. Only through a lot of hard work, love, perseverance, guidance, and prayer can an alcoholic and their family heal, grow, and love again.
Stephen sacrifices many things to help his brother, sister and son, all whom no longer write him, which says a lot about Kumalo's character. He hopes to learn more
Lucie ignites these characters and ensures them a more promising destiny by binding them into her family. For example, Lucie’s thread unites her father with the present keeping him from dwelling upon the horrors of his past. She reminds her father of the life he had before he was a prisoner and gives his life a purpose. Her endless love and devotion has healed her father from a state of madness allowing him to live his life to his fullest potential. Lucie has also provided her friend, Sydney Carton a more promising fate by binding him into her family.
As an individualistic person, he cares about himself, and his immediate family. This ironically causes a conflict of interest within him. He has stayed with his wife and chosen his career path (a police officer) because it is best for his family, and, having been abandoned by his own father, he explains to his new love Kathy “I swore I’d never do that to my own…” (Dubus 140) Staying together for the children used to be a very common excuse given regarding
A thousand miles separate Inman and Ada from each other. Yet their love, which they'd both come to realize at the outbreak of the Civil War, will keep them strong, and compel them to rejoin each other, no matter what. There are many scenes to show us Inman’s psychological world because Inman was a man too shy to express himself. When Inman looked at Ada as she was playing piano to say good morning to him, he loved her. When Inman thought about the words the old woman who saved his life said that there is a plan designed by each one of us, he thought about his life.
Next, in Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar’s companions of both Mr. Black and his grandfather aid in the coping, and eventual release, of Oskar’s grief caused by the death of his father. Last, in the film Finding Neverland, Peter’s companion of James Barrie shows Peter the importance of childhood and imagination. As an overarching point, unlikely companionship is a necessity because it helps the characters make crucial decisions on the issues of morality, grief, and entering adulthood. Basic companionship is the state of being with someone; someone that has been encountered for a short period of time, or conversely, a person that remains in contact and eventually develops into a friendship. The word is made up of two parts: “companion”, which means a person who accompanies another person, and “ship”, which signifies a state of being and relation.