Jasmine: Taylor's Significance

Part I of Essay
Jasmine, a novel by Bharati Mukherjee reveals the experience of an illegal Indian immigrant's journey to the United States, and life living in the States. The book described Jasmine, a young Indian woman who suffered from several predicaments in her life after moving to t ....

Part II of Essay
.... in her English was "deserting" (p 128) her. Moreover, she had soon realized that she was a "prisoner doing unreal time." (p. 132) By meeting Taylor, he gave her the freedom to explore more America life instead just limited in one place. Her first experience with ordinary American family was with Taylor, Wylie and Duff. "I became an American in an apartment on Claremont Avenue across the street from a Barnard College Dormitory¡KDuff was my child; Taylor and Wylie were my parents, my teachers, my family." (p. 146) In addition, Taylor ....