The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm currently reading the book "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. I just started reading it and as I was, I was thinking about religion and how it plays a really big part in the book.

The book is about two young adults that get married and are from India. They come to England to start a new life. The mission that they both (husband and wife) both try to accomplish is to honor there traditions and religion even though that they are in a place out of India.

This was shown alot in the book by using show not tell. In the beginning of the book, the wife in the family "Ashima" is in the hospital going through labor and the author describes and contrasts Calcutta to America.

I thought that this was a really interesting unique writing strategy and it defenitly dragged me into the setting and who the character is as a person.

I think that the whole point of the book is really setting up because the child that is born begins to disrespect the traditions and it shows how much love and passion the wife and the husband have for there religion.

During the book I was thinking about how the child feels about his parents. I can somewhat relate to him because something that I think about is whether I'm doing something wrong towards my traditions that would affect my parents in anyway. I think that the son would defenitly be thinking about that.

So far I think that the book is really good and that the book is going to go deeper into religion and tradition. 

Blog Post 1 : The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe : Character - Lucy

              Lucy becomes much more sincere through the entire book and that’s how she changes. At first she was very hyper, always used her imagination but then as time went by she got more mature and I think that is because of Peter and Susan. In the beginning of the book she says “We can pretend we are Arctic Explorers” when the three children need to find Edmund. Lucy’s the type of girl whose trying to be optimistic about everything! I think that she changes because in the beginning she doesn’t mean to be optimistic and all delightful about everything but at the middle she does it on purpose to brighten up her siblings day.

                I feel as if Lucy was the one to go inside the wardrobe because she’s a really curious, optimistic, and cheerful girl but later in the book she gets more sincere and brave! She’s most likely getting her braveness throughout the entire adventure and journey that her and her siblings go through in Narnia. Lucy is much different than other young children because in the beginning of the book, when Mr.Tumnus was crying about how he’s such a bad faun for kidnapping Lucy, a regular child would probably start crying also and not know what to do. But instead of Lucy doing that, she was very calm about it and was comforting the faun! Santa Claus gives Lucy a cordial, which she uses to heal the wounded following the battle with the Witch's troops.

 I think the cordial represents all her strength and power that she’s been showing over her siblings. Santa Claus gives Lucy a cordial, which she uses to heal the wounded following the battle with the Witch's troops. The power the cordial I think represents her optimistic because she’s trying to cure people physically and emotionally. All the stress the Penphancies are going through is something that Lucy is trying to take away. The cuts/bruises, etc the creatures are getting is what Lucy is trying to take away. This is why I think the cordial represents all the strength and power that Lucy has.