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A 4 page paper which examines how the setting in which Jasmine and Harley grew up and the events that took place there affect the identities of these protagonists. No additional sources are used.
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is responsible. Authors Bharati Mukherjee and Tawni ODell appear to subscribe to the latter theory because in their respective novels, Jasmine and Back Roads, setting plays a crucial role
in the development of their protagonists Jasmine and Harley Altmyer. Interestingly, both authors utilized settings with which they themselves were already well familiar. One of the settings featured
in Jasmine is the farmland of Iowa, which surround the University of Iowa, where Mukherjee received her Masters degree in Fine Arts. It is the rustic terrain of western
Pennsylvania - where Tawni ODell was born, raised and came of age - that looms large in Back Roads. There is not a single setting that dominates Jasmine, but many,
because the novel is, first and foremost, about transformation. The work chronicles a young womans journey from Hasnapur, India, where she was known as Jyoti. She marries young
and shares her husbands dream of relocating to America to attend a Florida college start their own business. Their plans come to a screeching halt when he is murdered
by the radical religious sect known as the Sikhs. Nevertheless, the determined widow, now known as Jyoti Vijh, makes her way to the United States by way of some
illegal documents and the assistance of a smuggler. Once on American soil, Jyoti receives a rude awakening when she is raped by the man who smuggled her into the
country, and is forced to kill him in self-defense. The setting may have appeared to be different, but the violence she experiences is much the same as that which
victimized her in India. While in Florida, she establishes a friendship with an American woman named Lillian, who quickly dubs her Jasmine or "Jazzy." Needing to
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