Abstract
This paper is a persuasive paper that shows that Mrs. Bhave had valid reasons to believe that her family could be alive. The paper shows how at the end of the story, there is evidence given that allows Mrs. Bhave to accept the loss of her family. The paper notes that Mrs. Bhave had valid reasons to believe that her family might still be alive and she had valid reasons to finally accept the death of her family.

From the Paper
"Imagine being in the home of a woman who has just lost her husband and son. What could a person do to ease the pain of lost? How does a widow handle her grief after losing her husband? The beginning of "The Management of Grief" by Bharati Mukherjee focuses on the way Mrs. Bhave is handling the lost of not only her beloved husband, but also her sons. The story is about the way different people handle their grief after their loved ones on an airplane were killed. Throughout the story, different people handle their grief differently. The story shows that Mrs. Bhave had valid reasons to believe that her family might still be alive and she had..."

Tags:evidence, death, acceptance

Abstract
This paper examines the short story "Clothes", by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni and the novel "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee. It discusses the choices Sumita and Jyoti/Jasmine make after moving from India to the US for their husbands and the changes in their lives that this entails.

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"In the short story "Clothes" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and the novel "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee, two separate Punjabi women must learn how to adapt to their adopted country the United States. Although both are fairly traditional young brides..."

Tags:Indian, Clothes, Jasmine, widowhood, Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni

Abstract
This paper analyzes Bharati Mukherjee's short story "A Father". The paper points out firstly that the use of 'a,' which implies a kind of arbitrary selection of a father, is appropriate given that the story is a narrative of unwed pregnancy by artificial insemination. The paper argues that the tale's title stresses the story's theme about the lies of patriarchal authority and male dominance. The paper concludes that the story shows how truly useless 'a father' is to a mother and daughter.

From the Paper
"Besides the theme of a culture clash, the story deals with parental conflicts bubbling beneath the surface as well as the shifting cultural values that occur when a family comes in contact with the west. Despite his idealization of a patriarchal way of life, where the man is the head of the family, Mr. Bhowmick does not reign supreme over his own family unit. His wife insisted that the family move to the United States. Mr. Bhowmick did not want to move. Mr. Bhowmick blames this for his daughter's unmarried, unwed, and unattractive plight, but the fact that it was his wife's decision to come to America indicates that the family never had a male reigning supreme over the children and the woman of the household, in contrast to Mr. Bhowmick's idealized vision of Indian family life."

Tags:artificial, insemination, single-parent, family, India, immigrant, America

Abstract
This paper discusses Bharati Mukiherjee's story, "The Father" and how it portrays a culture clash between two related Indians, a father and daughter. The paper relates that both characters in the story have two very different ethical standards about procreation and the meaning of fatherhood and that the cultural clash between the father and daughter exists on several levels - generational, gender-based, ethical, and personal.

From the Paper
"Babli's father comes from a culture that is a patriarchal culture in terms of its explicitly stated values, for, as Mr. Bhowmick sees it, male authority and wisdom should rule the household. Now the father's daughter will raise her child in a household with no male presence. Of course, this sense of patriarchal dominance is fictional to some degree. Mr. Bhowmick came to the U.S. from Ranchi because his wife, a professional in her own right insisted upon this move. But he still believes the pretence of male dominance should be protected in principle. In fact, because he feels forced to stay in the U.S. due to his wife, seeing his daughter flagrantly deny her need for a man even to father a child, makes him feel more powerless in the face of women in America. According to anthropologist Lalervo Oberg, culture shock arises when suddenly one's sense of certainty is destroyed when one enters a foreign environment. A person undergoing culture shock experiences it as a series of "upsets--breaks in reality because people behave differently" in a new culture and because the shocked individual finds him or herself in unfamiliar circumstances."

Tags:culture, shock, younger, generation, foreign, environment

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This paper examines the works, "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee and "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros. In particular, it looks at ow the characters of Jasmine and Esperanza, from two very different cultures, experience America through relationships, with other characters and, in turn, initially use those relationships to help them guide and create their own character. The paper also discusses how each of these immigrant works by immigrant women represents a chapter in the life of a woman assimilating and recognizing the changes that have to be made in order for her to find her internal peace.

From the Paper
"Jasmine is separate even from the only person in her life that has any real idea of what it is like to live in limbo, in poverty and with only vague hopes of changing the situation. One issue that repeatedly intertwines itself into the character of Jasmine and the other characters she is surrounded by in Iowa is racism. Though during her interactions with people in New York and Florida some of these issues are lessoned, as characters like Taylor acknowledge and discuss her ethnicity and ask her questions about her home and life experiences, which is evident in comparison and dialogue. (6, 12) The constant forgivable blunders when Mother uses the word Indian to describe native Americans and then must qualify it, with "our kind" (17) and the interesting way that the white Iowans react to immigrant farm workers from Mexico. "

Tags:racism, ethnicity, Esperanza

Abstract
The paper analyzes how Amy Tan's "A Pair of Tickets" and Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" both explore the problems of cultural identity in the context of multiculturalism. The paper conveys the confusion and identity loss of people who come from mixed cultural backgrounds.

From the Paper
"Both Amy Tan's A Pair of Tickets and Bharati Mukherjee's The Management of Grief revolve around questions of identity in the context of multiculturalism. The main characters in both of the stories are middle-aged women who come from culturally mixed backgrounds and are thus utterly confused about their own identity. Not accidentally, the two women, a Chinese-American and an Indian- Canadian, are surprised by their authors in crucial, turning points in their lives: Jing-Mei flies for the first time to her parent's country, China where she meets, also for the first time her twin half-sisters and Shaila Bhave flies to India after having lost her husband and her young sons in a terrible plane crash."

Tags:stereotypes, attitudes

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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes Bharati Mukherjee's essay, "Two Ways to Belong in America." Specifically, it discusses the position that immigrants who legally come to this country should become citizens of this country because they have enjoyed all the benefits the country has to offer, and they should be loyal to the country that has given them success and a new life.

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"Many critics believe the biggest problem with immigration and citizenship is not that so many immigrants choose not to become citizens, but that the country actually encourages immigrants not to assimilate. One critic writes, "Nor would it get at a related and even deeper problem, which is not that there are too many immigrants, but that those who apply, and those who come, are not required, or even asked, to assimilate" (Salins). America makes it very easy for people to immigrate here. We have always welcome and encouraged people from other countries to make their home here, and immigration law reforms in the twentieth century encouraged more people to move to America. Immigrants find that their children can be educated in their native languages, and even voting material and McDonald's menus are available in several languages. Immigrants find that they can live in segregated communities of their countrymen, speak their own language for the most part, and still find good jobs and get a good education. These social conveniences do not encourage assimilation or citizenship, and so, many immigrants feel no need to become citizens - why should they? Their lives are better, but they still live largely as they did at home."

Tags:live, work, segregated, communities, language, jobs, education, assimilation, restrictions

Abstract
The paper discusses how the book "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee investigates Jasmine's different names and identity shifts as the environment changes around her. The paper discusses the use of imagery and the book's intricate story-line.

From the Paper
"At the start of the novel, the audience meets Jane, a twenty-four year old woman, pregnant and living on an Iowa farm with an adopted son, Du. Mukherjee shows Jasmine's character loving farm life, "The farmers around here are like the farmers I grew up with" (11). Jane draws parallels between her life in Punjab to life in Iowa. To Jane, Iowa is a place of farmland, which she can relate back to her life in Punjab. Iowa to her is a closed off white society, unlike New York which is full of different ethnicity. The book, so far, is straightforward. Mukherjee introduces the protagonist to us as Jane in a very organized text, but she changes gears without any hint to the reader, and the next chapter just jumps straight back to the protagonist's childhood."

Tags:jyoti, Indian, Kali, Lillian

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This paper will discuss the nature of the older man and the younger woman relationships in the book "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, and the book "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee By revealing the text of the Bronte book, as well as the Jasmine book we can find the trouble that Jane comes into when dealing with Rochester, the main male figure who is represented in the tale. By realizing how men react when wounded, we can get a sense of how both authors uses the advanced age men in Jane Eyre, and, as well, in the Jasmine book, we can how Jasmine is used by older men, but in a much more cruel way.

Abstract
This paper examines identity in the novel, "Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee." The paper describes the young protagonist Jyoti, whose own eventual journey into the vast and strange world beyond her village serves as a metaphor for the ever-moving, regenerating process of life itself. The paper discusses how, as she struggles to discover her true identity on her journey through life, Jyoti experiences a series of transformations.

From the Paper
"Jasmine: An Analysis of Gender, Culture, and Agency In Bharati Mukherjee's novel, Jasmine, the inhabitants of the fictional Punjab village of Hasnapur long to escape their poverty and find better lives overseas. Their talk of distant lands fascinates the young protagonist Jyoti, whose own eventual journey into the vast and strange world beyond her village serves as a metaphor for the ever-moving, regenerating process of life itself. As she struggles to discover her true identity on her journey through life, Jyoti experiences a series of transformations. In her village, Jyoti was considered beautiful and clever, but her life was dominated and controlled by her father and brothers, who shared the prevailing cultural opinion that, "village girls are like cattle, whichever way you lead them, that is the way they will go." (Mukherjee 46)"

Tags:identity, in, jasmine