Chapter 3 was a hell of a lot more change coming in the lives of Ashima, Gogol and Ashoke. Gogol seems to embrace his name as a child and seems to enjoy happy as a family, I guess these were the prime times for the family all and all occurred but in this chapter we also notice that the family has been living in the United States for a decade. In this chapter the family expands as well with the new birth of Sonali, and now it feels like they are accustomed to living alone without the help of family and pieces of their identity has also changed, their traditions that the Ganguli’s once had are replaced, for instance now, they are given the responsibilty to name their daughter and conduct the rice cermemony with their Bengali friends and ironically Sonali doesn’t eat any of the options and misbehaves. This brings up the idea of her being “the true American” (63). Chapter 4 starts of the Gogols birthday and highlights his two sided identity. The American side of him celebrates his birthday with the typical birthday for his American friends and what he truly enjoys and the second time is with traditional food and a party more for his parents Bengali friends. This double life is interesting because his family wants to hold on to what they’ve always known but it isn’t the same thing for him.