Jessica aka Jassi

image:She’s an Indian woman. She’s beautiful, with smooth caramel skin and long beautiful black hair. She is slim and tall and is well accomplished in her life. She is a teacher, who was supposed to be a nurse. She had just received tenure at her job and is one of the youngest teachers to receive it. She is independent now she was not before. And she sees herself as the one who is independent and most accomplished out of her whole family, but they do not see it this way. She is living two separate lives.

Voice: Jassi has a soft-spoken voice. She speaks to everyone with respect and has manners. In her family she is not allowed to speak up for herself but when she is away from them, she is well able to. She teaches young children, elementary students. Her voice itself is firm but kind.

Desire: She wants to be independent in her eyes not her parents. She does not want her parent’s approval anymore for anything. She wants to begin to do things on her own. Wants to be under control of her own life not what her parents want, they keep forcing the med school on her. She definitely does not want to marry an Indian man.

Conflict:Disapproval from family about everything she desires. Forceful arranged marriage. Family keeps forcing a med school on her. The strict Indian culture.

Action:Jassi keeps doing things that her parents aren’t approving of. She goes into teaching rather than nursing. She is a different person when she is not with her family. She changes herself by slowly rebelling by not being disrespectful towards her family.

Mom (Suni)

Image:Typical Indian mom. Jassi is a spitting image of her. Though mom is shorter than she use to be and is getting older now. Suni was a nurse and is now retired at the age of 50. She encountered some health problems that involved her knees and her diabetic issues. She is a housewife now and she hates it. She loves her Indian serials (shows) and she loves to cook. Her mom (nani) taught her at a very young age. She loves her kids especially Jassi, she sees a lot of potential in her that she wishes she had. She is always pushing her more than the younger siblings.

Voice:Suni has a loud voice. She is very blunt; she tells things as it is and she never holds back. She always says what’s on her mind. Especially when it comes to disciplining, her husband (papa/raj) does not come in the way of that. She is an independent woman, just like Jassi and she makes it known that she has accomplished a lot such as getting her nursing license and leveling up to nursing management.

Desire:Wants the best for her family. She is especially rooting for Jassi to be like her because she was born in India and somewhat raised there so she knows the culture, traditions, and family values. She wants her to have the best career that is not teaching and wants her to marry into another Indian family. She wants a lot for her family because she is accomplished and provided for hers and wants jassi to do the same but the “Indian” way.

Conflict:Though Jassi is respectful of her family her and Suni don’t see eye to eye. Suni is always having snarky remarks about jassi’s career and keeps pushing things on her.

Action:Suni (mom) communicates in a different way than Jassi wants her to. She is not understanding and only wants her opinions to be heard and just tells Jassi to listen to her.

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