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.

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

Explanation:

In excerpt 1, we can see that Gogol is confused by the second, americanized name that he has been given, "Nikhil". This is related to his experience of growing up in an American culture that he still does not fully understand.

In excerpt 2, it is explained that his parents were educated in much different schools. His parents are surprised about many things of the American School system, like the high quality school supplies, or the fact that the students have to recite the pledge to allegiance every morning.

In conclusion, both Gogol and his parents share the feeling of confusion that is caused by the differences between Bengali culture and American culture.

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

edge 2021

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!