Jasmine Lesson Plan

How does the narrator define the concept of a life's mission, and how does Taylor feel about her definition? How might someone in modern U.S. society feel about her definition? What does she see as her own life's mission? How is her perspective different from or similar to that of a modern American person?

In Chapter 9, the narrator teaches Taylor about the vastness of God's mission, how it is so vast that a human mind cannot comprehend its complexity. Thus it follows that a single human life is a small thing, and a whole life's mission, or assignment, could be as seemingly unimportant as moving a flowerpot from one table to another, or crunching a specific piece of...