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A 5 page essay that discusses Bharati Mukherjee's provocative novel Jasmine tells the story of an Indian village woman's journey from her life in her native village to life in the United States and how this journey incorporates several transmutations of identity. This journey of self-discovery leads Mukherjee's protagonist from the traditional obligations of her old life toward the freedom and promise inherent in American individualism. It is quite literally the story of one immigrant woman's transformation in an American. In presenting this premise, Mukherjee encompasses all that makes American identity vital and attractive. No additional sources cited.
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how this journey incorporates several transmutations of identity. This journey of self-discovery leads Mukherjees protagonist from the traditional obligations of her old life toward the freedom and promise inherent in
American individualism. It is quite literally the story of one immigrant womans transformation in an American. In presenting this premise, Mukherjee encompasses all that makes American identity vital and attractive.
The story begins with picturing the heroine, Jyoti, as a rambunctious child of seven being told by an astrologer that she would widowed and go to live in exile
from her country. The next chapter shifts to the US, but slowly the background to this drastic change unfolds as the protagonist recalls the past. As a fifteen-year-old, Jyoti falls
in love with a young urban man, Prakash Vijh. They live in the city, in their own apartment, rather than in Hasnapur, the small village in which Jyoti was raised.
Prakash is determined to drum the feudal village mindset out of his new wife and this process even entails a new name. New named "Jasmine" comments, "Jyoti, Jasmine: I shuttled
between identities" (Mukherjee 77). This is the first of many changes in identity for Jasmine, but, perhaps, this is the most profound, as Prakash forces Jasmine to turn away
from the traditional customs of her village and adopt more modern, urban ideas. For example, in her village, wives addressed their husband only by pronouns, never using a proper name.
Jasmine records that she had a difficult time learning to refer to her husband by his name. She had to practice saying his name in the bathroom, so that she
would not gag or blush when saying his name "in front of his friends" (Mukherjee 77). Also, in the tradition of her village, Jasmine wanted to become pregnant right
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