51 pages 1 hour read

Bharati Mukherjee

Jasmine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

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Essay Topics

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Discuss Jasmine’s personal journey as reflected by her series of transformed identities. How do Jyoti, Jase, Jazzy, Jane, and Jasmine form the woman who emerges by the end of the novel?

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The roles we play throughout the course of our lives have an effect on the people we become, or are continually becoming. Describe how Jasmine’s roles in the novel affirm this concept.

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At times in her young life, Jasmine is pressured or forced to become a new, different woman to fit the time and place she is in. How does she respond to these pressures? Do her responses change as she grows older and experiences more adventures?