St. Oswald's Church, Grasmere

St. Oswald's Church, GrasmereSt. Oswald's Church is the parish church of Grasmere, Rydal, and Langdale in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. The Romantic-era poet William Wordsworth and his family worshiped here, and Wordsworth, his wife Mary, his sister Dorothy, some of their children and other family members are buried or memorialized in the church graveyard.

New York, USA - Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

With the help of Lillian Gordon, a woman who helps Jasmine assimilate to life in America, Jasmine finds herself in New York, where she lives with Professor Devinder Vadhera, her deceased husband's former teacher. Upon her arrival at Vadhera’s home, Jasmine soon realizes that her exclusion from American life appears to be beginning yet again. As a result, she attempts to separate herself from all that is Indian in an effort to continue to make progress in her American life rather than falling back into the confines of her Indian past.

Little Women: Laurie goes to Europe

Laurie is completely heartbroken because Jo does not love him back. So he decides to go to Europe with his grandfather where he runs into Amy. He then starts to fall in love with her! At first she was not a fan of it, she wanted him to find himself and to drop his almost cocky attitude that he gained after Jo declined him. Eventually they fall for each other and end up getting married before returning home back to the US.

Little Women: Jo decides to adventure

Jo wanted to leave for a little bit and decided to go stay with her moms friend for six months in New York City. Here she studies German and writes romantic stories for newspapers as a job. Jo also wanted to get away from Laurie because she views him like a sibling and nothing more, so she figured if she distanced himself his romantic feelings may change for her. 

Little Women: Where Marmee takes care of Mr. March

Mr. March becomes very ill.  Marmee goes to take care of him in Washington. Mr. Laurence offers to go with her to help but she tells him no because she feels bad making him travel therefore he sent John Brooke to go help them. While she is there Beth gets Scarlett Fever which is very scary for all of them considering children were dying often from this at the time.

California, USA - Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

At the conclusion of the novel, Jasmine makes the choice to leave Iowa and Bud Ripplemeyer in order to travel to California with Taylor Hayes and his daughter, Duff. Jasmine justifies her decision by explaining “I am not choosing between men. I am caught between the promise of America and old-world dutifulness…It isn’t guilt that I feel, it’s relief...Adventure, risk, transformation: the frontier is pushing indoors through uncaulked windows” (Mukherjee 240).

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