READER RESPONSE CHAPTER 4

According to the Chapter Two, it shows how Gogol feels about his name. He thinks that his name is ridiculous and make him feels embarrassing. The author tried to explain how a child raised in a foreign country like The United States would feel in some circumstances, especially when that child have to faces his friend's opinion. In this case Gogol was interesting in having a female friend, and he decided to adopt another name just at that moment to establish a good conversation with that girl. That part of the chapter remind me when I was 13 years old. I didn't like my middle name, and in Ecuador when the professor take the attendance and somebody else have the same name as you, the teacher called you by your middle name to differentiate you from the other. It was so embarrassing for me because I hated that name, so like Gogol, I wished I could have another name.