Jasmine: names of different lives

In the Bharati Mukherjee¡¯s novel ¡°Jasmine¡±, the author tries to show jasmine¡¯s change in her thoughts and her entire life through changing her name. Also, she tries to show the quest for Jasmines identity in an alien land by the pain of separation from her homeland and the disorientation -in two meanings- of her mind. Jasmine, the main character of the novel, undergoes several transformations during her journey of life in America, from …showed first 75 words of 418 total…

…showed last 75 words of 418 total…as ¡°Jane¡±. Jasmine as Kali, she finds another way after she gets raped by half-Face in a seedy Florida motel room. Instead of killing herself, she "balance(s) my(her) defilement with my(her) death" (117). She chooses to slice her tongue instead of killing herself and gets reincarnated as Kali. ¡°Suddenly death was being denied¡± She kills the man who raped her. She discovers that being a woman doesn¡¯t require being a powerless victim.