Jasmine Lesson Plan

What does the narrator mean when she says, "Flushing was a neighborhood in Jullundhar"? What literary device is this an example of? What does Jasmine experience emotionally during her time with the Vadheras, and why do you think she has this experience?

Mukherjee is using metaphor when she says that Flushing is a neighborhood in Jullundhar. The narrator means that the Punjabi community she walks into by staying with the Vadheras is so homogeneous, so familiar that it is as if it is a replica of what she had known back in India. She has to discard the American clothes Lillian gave her and wear plain saris designed for older widows; she has to listen to Professorji's...