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This 5 page paper analyzes the book "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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at a deeper level it is a story of the search for identity, and what we mean when we say we belong to such and such a society. This paper
evaluates Jasmines relationships with men and whether or not she acted and through for herself in these encounters; it also discusses whether she was faithful, and to whom. Discussion Probably
the most provocative line in the book is Jasmines comment, "We murder who we were so we can rebirth ourselves in the image of dreams" (Mukherjee, 1989, p. 29). The
book can be seen as a series of actual and allegorical murders: Jasmine begins life as Jyoti; is then named Jasmine by her first husband; then becomes Jassy, then Jane
(Mukherjee, 1989). She also literally kills Half-Face, the man who smuggled her into America and raped her (Mukherjee, 1989). With each new persona, she begins a new phase of her
life, and at the end of the book, her story is still ongoing. Her relationships with men are difficult to describe, because for such a self-sufficient woman she sometimes seems
to bounce aimlessly from one man to another. Her story really starts when a village seer tells her fortune, and she defies him, saying that hes wrong and shell make
her own future. She is a rebel from the beginning, and her desire to be different could be one of the reasons her life takes on what seem to be
mythological overtones. For instance, when she falls in love with Prakash, her first husband, she does so because she hears him talking to her brothers, and likes his voice. It
is a time of great unrest in India, and Jyotis brothers are arguing with a man named Sukhwinder, who is preaching that "the Pure-Bodied and the Pure-Hearted must have their
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