1. In what specific ways has Ashima's life changed over her almost 30 years in America?

Ashima is a character from the novel ''The Namesake'' and she experienced changes that were defining her life trough the story. The novel is following her perspective between thirty-two years elapse where the readers can follow her growing from a young girl and mother to a great personality woman. In the beginning, she was devastated because of her father's death and she was feeling like she cannot raise her children, Gogol and Sonia. She wanted to give them more but she couldn't. Her path was leading her to the independence that she needed even though her path was difficult and specific because she experiences the death of her father and her husband and she also experiences separation of her family because they were separated in four different countries at one time. At the end of the novel, she is realizing the importance of life in America for her and her family since she became a resident of the US and a resident of Calcutta.