GOGOL CHANGES HIS NAME!! But did he truly change anything else about himself, it was kind of sad to see how little impact it had to anyone but himself. The authors language makes the scene so regular, its almost hard to believe that this might be the change of his whole identity in his mind and what also really sucks is that Gogol realizes that this change took very little time, almost making it insignificant. For Nikhil he just wants the world to know his new name and it seems that he starts fresh, new college, new name, and independence from his family, but doesn’t completely disconnect and visits his family and his father actually tells him what happened with the train all those years ago, and the real reason he chose that name. As the next chapter starts we see that Nikhil has his life basically made for himself and he meets a woman named Maxine, we see how connected he gets with her and they share a lot of time together and becomes the first girl he brings home, while their its interesting to see how he feels when his mother cooks all the dishes, he seems so embarrassed almost of his culture and its a wall that he can never truly cross Maxine into though he’s basically in the same mix with her in the sense he knows everything  but that doesn’t mean he’ll truly ever belong there.