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name represent identity a deep feeling and holds tremendous significant to its owner. do you think the decision of gogol's parents to give him an new name in school was correct give reaso​

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Gogol’s legal name change to “Nikhil” marks an important turning point in his identity. Changing his name is his first open act of rebellion against the Bengali American identity he grew up with. (Although he doesn’t realize it at the time, his rejection of this name is also a rejection of a key part of his father’s history, a fact which makes the change of name even harder for Ashoke and Ashima to accept.) Clearly Gogol wants to remake himself in college, to be something other than what his parents wish he would be: He attends Yale rather than MIT, his parents’ preference, and pursues architecture rather than engineering or medicine. Gogol longs for a fresh start, a space in which he can distance himself from his heritage, and college seems like the perfect time to perform this erasure of his past.

However, Gogol soon discovers that his past isn’t easily erased. He constantly polices his identity in order to keep his new friends from discovering his old name and his old self. He is uncomfortable when his parents come to visit him at college, and he tries to keep his relationship with Ruth completely separate from his life as a Ganguli. In order to “pass” as “Nikhil,” Gogol finds himself withdrawing more and more from the family who still know him as “Gogol.” He visits them less and less, increasingly feeling unattached to their world in Boston. On campus, he avoids spending time with fellow Bengalis: They remind him too much of the Bengali traditions his parents tried to force onto him, the parts of his childhood he would rather forget. Being “Nikhil” comes at the cost of losing “Gogol.”

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