3.1 Written Text Quotes - Memorisation

Quotes from "The Namesake"by Jhumpa Lahiri to memorise for the 3.1 Written Text exam.

“For being _______ [...], is _______ …”

“For being a foreigner [...], is a sort of lifelong pregnancy…”

“Along with the _______ she’d _______ , she’d privately _______ that she’d never _______ , as _______ .”

“Along with the Sanskrit vows she’d repeated at her wedding, she’d privately vowed that she’d never grow fully dependent on her husband, as her mother has.”

“For a few _______ she is _______.”

“For a few hours at Dimitri’s she is inaccessible, anonymous.”

“...Obediently ______, he goes home ______…”

“...Obediently but unwillingly, he goes home every other weekend…”

“Somewhere ______, ______ evaporate and ______ again.”

“Somewhere along the two-and-a-half hour journey, Nikhil evaporates and Gogol claims him again.”

“She has the ______; […], he realises that ______...”

“She has the gift of accepting life; […], he realises that she has never wished she were anyone other than herself…”

“He hates having to tell ______. He hates having to wear ______.”

“He hates having to tell people that it doesn’t mean anything in Indian. He hates having to wear a nametag on his sweater at Model United Nations Day at school.”

“For now _____.”

“For now he starts to read.”

That here ______, in this ______, he______.

That here at Maxine’s side, in this cloistered wilderness, he is free.

“He misses ______, ______ one of ______, ______ to ______, learning how to _______.”

“He misses being in his suite in Farnam, smoking one of Brandon’s cigarettes, listening to music with Jonathan, learning how to tell the classical composers apart.”

“On a ______ [...], ______ stands in the ______, combining ______.”

“On a sticky August evening [...], Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl.”