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A 5 page paper
which compares aspects of Bharati Mukherjee’s “Jasmine” and Edwidge Danticat’s
“Breath, Eyes, Memory.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAjasedw.rtf
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plight of women in different cultures. In Bharati Mukherjees "Jasmine" and Edwidge Danticats "Breath, Eyes, Memory" we are given two such stories that illustrate the growth of two individual women
in cultures that are perhaps foreign to a great number of people. They are stories concerned with the coming of age of women who must adjust to new cultures, and
stories of the power of tradition and history as they relate to a given culture. The following paper first discusses Bharati Mukherjees "Jasmine" and then Edwidge Danticats "Breath, Eyes, Memory."
The paper ends with a comparison of the two. Jasmine In Bharati Mukherjees "Jasmine" we find that "daughters were curses. A daughter had to be married off before
she could enter heaven, and dowries beggared families for generations" (Mukherjee NA). It was believed that girl children were forced on women as a punishment for some wrong and Jasmine
states, "My mothers past must have been heavy with wrongs. I was the fifth daughter, the seventh of nine children" (Mukherjee NA). We also note that "To be female, then,
is to be a burden, an embarrassment. And if a couple are burdened with a female infant the blame certainly lies with the past sins of the mother, not the
father" (Mukherjee NA). Without even getting into the specifics of this story we can immediately see that the patriarchal society was an incredibly domineering one that did not wish women
to possess any power. From the beginning they were told they were curses and this would ultimately control them in a mans world. We note that Jasmines husband is the
one to open the doors to rebellion and change for her as he changes her name to Jasmine. In doing this she is given a new chance, perhaps, but also
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