Chapter 7 and personal response

In the chapter 7 from the novel” The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri the author argues that Ashima made the Christmas cards by herself because she was along due that Ashoke was in Ohio, but he came home regularly to see her wife. One day, Ashima was in home when Ashoke called her and told that he was in the hospital for a stomachache, and he promised to call after he left the hospital. Ashima was waiting for his husband calling, but he didn’t call. Consequently, Ashime called to the hospital where the doctor told that her husband suffered a heart attack and died. Gogol went to recognize his father body, and he spend few days put all his father things in order. When he came to Massachusetts spend long time with her mother and Sonia, the first days they never were alone because their parent’s friends visited them. On the eleventh day The Ganguli invited their friends to mark the end of the mourning period, and that day Maxine visited Gogol and invited him to go to her home in the lake, but he refused. Sonia decided to come back home to spend time and help her mother. In January, Gogol was traveling to New York, and in the train he was remembering the many times that his father brought them in cold Sundays to the sea, and once they drove to Cape Cod where he and his father walked to the furthest edge of the breakwater.

Personal response

In chapter 7 from the novel "The Namesake"  Gogol is at home with his family celebrating the end of the mourning period, and Maxine comes to Gogol’s house and invites him to New Hampshire to celebrate holidays, but Gogol doesn’t accept because he wants to help his mother to pass this bad time. I think that Maxine doesn’t understand the bad moment that Gogol living; also, she didn’t know Gogol’s traditions, which are very important for him in this moment. Because he is remembering many things that he shares with his father, and now his mother is alone and need his support. I think that one should keep his tradition because that persevere family values.