CHAPTER SEVEN SUMMARY

In chapter seven, of the Namesake, Ashima was feeling alone at home because Ashoke, Gogol and Sonia were not there. A lot of things passed over her mind because it was not was she expected. She tried to get involved in other activities, so she was hired in the library. It was her first job since he came from Calcutta. One day she received a phone call from Ashoke, he told her that he was in the hospital because he had a stomach ache. However, she thought that it was not much important, after some days she was worried because she had haven't received any call from him. For this reason she decided to call to the hospital that she assumed he could be, and unfortunately a young doctor told her that his husband had expired. For an instance, Ashima couldn't believe that; she informed to her children about this terrible situation, and Gogol was in charge to go to Cleveland to identify his father's body and to put in other all his belongs. Ashima, Gogol an Sonia were in a period of vegetarian diet for 10 days, and they finally ate the 11th a good meal with fish, meat potatoes and vegetables. Gogol remembered his father and he started to discover how wonderful and valuable he was.



READER RESPONSE CHAPTER 7

According to the Chapter Two, it shows how Gogol feels about his father's death. It hit him very hard. This particular thing reminds me how I felt when my father died. My family was conformed by 4 as the Ganguli family: my mother, mi father, my brother and I, but he left this place to go somewhere else. It was very painful to see my father in a coffin, and I wished that on any moment he would wake up, but it never happened. I thank God everyday because I had a wonderful father that left on my a good behavior and enough strength to face any obstacle in the life.