“for reasons he cannot explain or necessarily understand,
these ancient Puritan spirits, these very first immigrants to America, these
bearers of unthinkable, obsolete names, have spoken to him, so much so that in
spite of his mother’s disgust he refuses to throw the rubbings away”
When Gogol was in sixth grade, he went to a trip to visit the
house of a famous dead writer, and he and his class went to the cemetery where
they had to rub the surface of the gravestone. Some of the children found
graves with their names, but Gogol knew that was impossible for him found his
name. While he was rubbing the names of the tombs, his classmates were playing
between the grave. Gogol felt connection
with those names or spirits because he had an unusual name as them. For that he wanted to keep the rubs with him because
he Know that he never would meet people with those names although his mother
was disagreeing with that.
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