Sixth Chunk of The Namesake

After graduating from the architecture program from Columbia by 1994 Nikhil is now livng in New York working barely passing by on th necessities he needs with a little help from his dad to help pay the bills. But now Lahiri has introduced us to another lover of Nikhil's who hemet one day at a party invited by his companion from work. He ends up falling in love for the caucassion girl who's name is Maxine, but known as Max.
They end up in love with one another. They can't seem to be far away from one another. Right away Nikhil is introduced to Max's folks on their first "date." The parents are cool with Nikhil and enjoy his company. The apartment in which Nikhil lives is in no way conditioned that anone should live there so he ends up livin with Max in her house which is pretty much replicated of a Greek revival, in whic he ends up falling in love with it's structure. Here the couple do as they please, and the parents don't really mind. They maake love, sleep in the same room and eveything and are free to express their love for one anothr without fear of wha one might say to them. This goes on for a while and they are very happy with one another, and nothing seems to wrong for this couple at all so far.

Question: Is there such thing as soulmates and do you believe that there is a "happy everlasting"?

Fifth Chunk of The Namesake

As Lahiri continues to write the life of Gogol who successfully before a judge has changed his name to Nikhil Ganguli. Then he is off to college, wanting to stray awayfrom home he left to New Haven, and once he is there a a new school, new bed, new room, new roommates, new teachers, new buildings, and even ne name h begins eberything new and wth a little bi of hope. He feels strange at fist being called Nikhil, but eventually gets used to it and is happy that he i no being called Gogol after a while. Though throughout the time he was in the University he met his first love Ruth whom sadly after 2 wondeful years of being togther they end up separated for Ruth one year studied abroad and even in the summer, but when she returned things were different between the two of them and both realizing it wasn' worth it anymore they went their separte ways. It was that year after they broke up in the fall on his regualr trips back home to visit his dad, for his mom and sister have left for India, during Thanksgiving break that Nikhil finally after so many years learns the real reason of why he was name Gogol Ganguli.
Earlier on is his regular train ride the train had stopped and was delaye for about 1 hour and a half, this was because there was an accident. Someone had committed a suicide by jumping in front of the train and the whole hold up was the police coming and reporting the whle incident. Well when Nikhil brought up the subject the memory of Ashoke's almost deathe was revived and he finally had the strength to tell his son the real reason why he was named Gogol. He told him of that one fatal night that he would no longer have been Ashoke Ganguli.

Question: Have you've ever been in a near death experience that has changed or competely mark your life? If not do you think a near deat experience changes one for the better or how would tha incident change that person's life? or does it even change or mean anything?

The Fourth Chunk of The Namesake

In the beginning of this chunk the Ganguli family has made plans to visit Calcutta once again, but this time for almost a whoe school year, eight months. At first Gogol and his sister Sonia decide they don't want to go and miss a whole year of school, but they end up going and come back safe and sound. On their return Gogol is ready to enter his third year of High School, he is now a junior and dreads the class assignment given to him in his english class. He has to read certain novels of other famous writers throughout the ages. He dislikes this assignment because it revelas everything about him that he has tried to push behind him. For one of the writers was the famous Russian writer Gogol whom he was named after.
There's the fact that he doesn't like his name because he can't ask girls out or introduce himself because he feels ashamed of his name and now learning about the life of Gogol he wonders and questios why he was even named Gogol in the first place. He dislikes the fact that it's not common and that in his eyes it's the most horoundous name anyone could ever have.
So eventually fed up with his name and the whole idea of his heritage pretty much he decides to change his name to what thier parents originally wanted to call him Nikhil. He asked for his parents permission and although Ashima, his mother opposed at first, and Ashoke, his father felt like it was useless he was permitted.

Question: Do you know why you were given the name you are now called today? Do you like your name? If so why or why not, and if not, given the option to choose or change your name what would it be?