Jasmine: Taylor's Significance

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By meeting Taylor, he gave her the freedom to explore more America life instead just limited in one place. Her first experience with ordinary American family was with Taylor, Wylie and Duff. "I became an American in an apartment on Claremont Avenue across the street from a Barnard College Dormitory¡KDuff was my child; Taylor and Wylie were my parents, my teachers, my family." (p. 146) In addition, Taylor provided her the environments to live like an American, although she could not get use to the new kind of life, an more advanced life, and live under different culture. For example, "No window shades, no secrets. Barnard women were studying cross-legged on narrow beds, changing T-shirts, clowning with Walkmans clamped to their heads. They wore nothing under their shirts and sweaters. Men were in their room. Even on the first morning I saw naked bodies combing their hair in front of the dresser mirrors. Truly there was no concept of shame in this society." (p. 151) With ...

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