chapter 5

In chapter five of the novel, The Namesake, by Jhumpa  Lahiri,Gogol and his family go to court in Boston to change his first name to Nikhil. As Nikhil, he gets a fake ID to go drinking, and loses his virginity to a random girl in a bar. During the fall of Gogol's sophomore year, while he's on the train form New Haven to his house, he started a conversation with the girl sitting next to him. She's also a student of New Haven, and her name is Ruth. In addition they fall in love and begin to date. At one point Ruth goes for a spring semester at Oxford, when she gets back Gogol and her break up. On Gogol senior's year, he goes home for thanksgiving and only his father was around because his mother and Sonia went to India. However on his way home, Gogol was late because of track issue; the train was running slow, and Ashoke tells him about his own train accident because he was worried about Gogol.

I complete agree with the fact that Ashima and Ashoke did not do anything to stop Gogol from changing his first name Nikhil. Why, because they have tried that and it did not happen because of Gogol's kindergarten school principal. As many children on their teenagers' life never find out why their parents name them they name, Gogol's accident become to be the reason for Gogol to find out how his name is really significant for his dad. Indeed parents pass something have effect on their children's life, at  Gogol 'age i Believe that Ashoke did the right thing by telling Gogol the story that happened to him twenty years ago.