What is the meaning and purpose of the annaprasan ceremony? What is its significance in Bengali culture? What do the clump of soil, ballpoint pen, and dollar bill symbolize? What adjustments do Ashima and Ashoke need to make to the ritual in the United States? How do their American neighbors react? Finally, how important is Gogol’s behavior during the ceremony, and what might it foreshadow? Compose your answer in an essay of 300 words, using specific details from the text