13. Jasmine was always very cautious of what was going on in her life. She always felt like it was her fate to become a widow and leave Hasnapur. Even for me as a reader, I felt like her inevitable widowhood was hanging over my head no matter what happened. However, Jasmine still carried on in the tradition of being married off at a young age, and then Prakash her beloved husband was killed. After this it was almost her fate to go to America. It was what she was going to do with Prakash, and so it made sense that she would do it to fulfill his wishes. However once she got to America she was no longer held down by fate and customs. Jasmine could do as she wished. She could be who she wanted to be. She could do whatever she wanted to do. She even killed a man! She impulsively left New York when she felt it was no longer safe for her to be there. Then she left Idaho and Bud when she felt that there was somewhere else where she needed to be. After Jasmine left Hasnapur she was overcome with free will. At one point she thought it was her fate to die in America, her fate to grow old with Prakash or Bud, but she learned how to make her own fate instead.