Question

Read the excerpts from The Namesake.

Excerpt 1: He is afraid to be Nikhil, someone he doesn’t know. Who doesn’t know him. His parents tell him that they each have two names, too, as do all their Bengali friends in America, and all their relatives in Calcutta. It’s a part of growing up, they tell him, part of being a Bengali.

Excerpt 2: It is nothing like the schooling Gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age. Here the only official ritual is pledging allegiance first thing in the morning to the American flag.

Which statement best tells how the conflict in the first excerpt is similar to the conflict in the second excerpt?
A)Gogol’s experience of growing up in an American culture conflicts with his parents’ experience of growing up in India.
B)Gogol’s desire to have two names like his parents conflicts with his parents’ desire for him to adopt American customs.
C)Gogol’s fear of attending American school conflicts with his parents’ excitement about the new experiences he will have.
D)Gogol’s wish to return to India where his relatives live conflicts with his parents’ wishes to start a new life in America.

The answer is A

Answer 1

A

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Answer 2

Option correct is A:

A)Gogol’s experience of growing up in an American culture conflicts with his parents’ experience of growing up in India.

The paragraphs narrate two situations that this young person: Nikil, must face at the moment of moving to the USA. In today's world, many immigrants from Europe and Asia have joined the American culture and for their children, it is not always easy to face the cultural difference.

Part of the challenges of immigrant families is to generate in their children the sense of double belonging: to their country of origin and to the country where their culture comes from. The character of the story in each fragment is at a different moment in its process of adaptation to America.

In the first fragment, he fears to go to live in another country, where he thinks he should be someone different from himself. In the second fragment he observe the behavior of the students of the North American school.