Comparing Gogol's Adaptation To American Culture
During the family’s vacation to India, the family must live by a lifestyle of rustic conditions than in America, where transportation lacks the tech and efficiency, buildings are historic and are not modernly built, and situating to housing varies as sleeping conditions involve going to area and area with a sense of lack of security. As Gogol and his sister were both born in America, they grew up and found assimilating into American culture very easy to adapt to in comparison to their parents. For instance, the author writes, “Ashoke and Ashima slip into bolder, less complicated versions of themselves...their smiles wider...he and Sonia are given cups of Horlick’s, plates of syrupy, spongy rosogollas for which they have no appetite but which