Jasmine's Assimilation

Jasmine’s first adventure in America takes place in Florida, where she is still encompassed by her old life. First, Jasmine experiences a terrible rape. Once over, she symbolically ends her old life in honor of starting a new one. However, Jasmine chooses to still keep her Ganpati, a symbol of Indian culture and religion. She is unable to fully let go of her life in Indian and start a totally complete new life. As Jasmine is saved by a woman named Lillian, she is taught how to become American. From h

Jasmine doesn’t simply move to another city though, she moves to an entirely new state, Iowa, in hopes of truly starting a new life, and hopefully at this point, assimilating into the American culture. It is in Iowa though, that her life begins to reflect that of her life in India more than ever. While she starts off in an All-American way life, with her studly husband, Bud, soon, and possibly due to everyone but her, her life is very similar to a life lived in India. First is the arrival Du. Du has lead a very exceptional and challenging life, and now that he is in America, he too is faced with assimilation. However, unlike Jasmine, he doesn’t want to forget what he has been through; therefore, his struggles that he so freely mentions to Jasmine, are a forced reminder of what she has been through as well. Since Du has lead a comparable life to her, she has no choice but to see him as not only a son, but as a friend, where she can share her life with and what it has been like trying to adjust. Once Bud, her now serious boyfriend, is shot, she is forced into a life of care giving. While she still loves him, her role has changed into that more of someone who watches and takes care of a disabled, rather than a woman who loves a man. This again is similar to the womanly role in India, where she is not the bread winner, nor the strong person in the house, but rather a succumbing housewife who answers to the man’s every beck and call. While she doesn’t out rightly rid herself of her supposed American way, she does accept this duty that is very similar to that of the duties in India.

er walk to her talk, Lillian explains it all, as if it were schooling, on how to act American. One can te

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