Jasmines School

             Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine is a cultural book that involves the concepts of Indian Literatures. Jasmine, a girl who is learning to become an American, takes on another roles, another names and "reinvents" herself every time she meets someone new. Jasmine is a school building that has new people coming in and out every year. As Jasmine meets different people, unseen sides of her personalities are shown as well as new names are introduced. Jasmine therefore can be described as a school having different people entering every year. Although her name and personality changes, she is still the same Jasmine from birth. Kali and Jazzy, Jyoti and Jasmine, and Jane and Jase are how Jasmine has evolved who consists of similarities and differences.
             Kali and Jazzy are the same building but they are different in structure. The name Kali was given by Half-face, a man who had tried to close down the school. Jazzy was a name given by Lillian Gordon, a woman who helped the business to go well. The two different buildings have many similarities because they haven't fully been exposed to the school's standards and expectancy. They are both independently working buildings, they are small buildings which haven't been expanded yet, and they are both very strongly constructed and well organized. Kali showed the strength of the school when she took Half-face out of the building, and Jazzy showed power by accepting different races, ethnics into her school which she didn't plan at first. They are both very well organized because Kali destroyed a part of the building's structure to organize herself, and Jazzy got herself new clubs and activities for the school. Although they are very much alike in many ways, they are different in solid ways as well. Kali and Jazzy are different in a way that Kali doesn't have as much students as Jazzy does. Kali is a school that is afraid to accept different kinds of children, while...

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