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A 7 page paper that provides an overview of the theme of Americanization in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and underscores the belief that true assimilation into American culture is seldom achieved by illegal immigrants. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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how the progression of her transformation is impacted by her interactions with others and her very human experiences. Mukherjee appears to suggest that the progression of cultural assimilation not only
requires that individuals embrace the cultural differences between their homeland and the United States, but also give up elements of the personal character and their identification in order to become
an American. Though foreigners commonly enter the United States seeking Americanization and a new way of life, Mukherjee suggests that many of the inherent sacrifices in this process may
not be worth the benefits afforded immigrants. Mukherjees novel reflects the life of Jyoti Vijh, a Hindu girl who challenges the conscripts of her culture and attaches herself to Prakash,
a modern Hindu man who hopes to bring Jyoti away from the dissatisfying cultural context of her childhood into the modern world (76). Jyotis marriage to Prakash becomes the
initial focus of her desire to move to the United States, based in both her husbands considerations and the emerging cultural, social and military upheaval in the region. But
before Jyoti can leave her homeland, her husband is killed in a bombing, and the seventeen year old widow is left to fend for herself. Jyoti is immediately challenged
not only by her circumstances, but by her issues of identification. Within her marriage to Prakash, her name is changed to Jasmine as a means of producing a transformation
towards a more urban persona (77). But though this is just one step in the progression of her characterization, Jyotis continued name changes underscore the level of her own
Americanization through out the novel. Prakashs decision that her changed name will change her personality appears as flawed as the insistence that being submerged in American culture can somehow
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