Jasmine Essays

Jasmine

Immigrants almost inevitably face immense challenges pursuing the American Dream--socially, economically, perhaps even internally. Such struggles are evident in the novel "Jasmine," Bharati Mukherjee's richly descriptive and emotionally powerful...

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In the 1989 novel Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee tells the story of Jasmine, an American immigrant from India who experiences life through a wide range of identities denoted by different versions of her name. Her different relationships and...

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Gender and sexuality have become so deeply rooted into society that we apply them to most anything without ever giving it a second thought. The portrayals of gender in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Bharati Mukherjee’s...

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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” Theodore Roosevelt

If living a life of overcoming challenges and unique obstacles is the milestone for leaving a name worth remembering, then immigrant...

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Described as “the foremost chronicler of the multicultural New America”, Bharati Mukherjee constitutes her works with the life of South Asian expatriates/immigrants in the United States and Canada. Her novel, Jasmine, explores the process of...