After the Wedding - Jess S.

I don't think that happiness ultimately depended on Jorgen's death. Even though Jacob and Jorgen didn't really get along at first, Jorgen pushed Jacob into his plan of negotiation, and I think even though Jacob knew he'd been roped in to staying in Denmark rather than being allowed to go back to India, we find that his happiness ultimately lies between the East and the West, because of the moral obligations he feels toward Anna and Pramod. I'm not sure his happiness in the end was caused by the fact that Jorgen had died. It might have changed the rules of the negotiation if Jorgen had lived in some sense, like maybe if he knew he was going to live he would still donate the money to the orphanage and let Jacob go back to India because of his obligations there, but Jorgen could also allow Jacob to be a part of Anna's life, as he rightly should have been from the start.

Given the fact that Jorgen did die, his passing made way for Jacob to integrate himself more fully into Anna and her family's life, based on the fact that Jorgen had begged him to take care of his family after he was gone. Even though Jacob was hurt that he'd been almost tricked into staying in Denmark after the plans went through, he realizes in that end scene that everything had worked out has it should, even if it meant that he would have to sacrifice a lot of time with Pramod and ultimately have more time with Anna. In some sense this negotiation almost seems fair, because now that Jacob has the money and the time to go and visit the orphanage whenever he wants, he is allowed time with Anna in Denmark that he'd never had before, whereas if he'd moved back to India based purely on the moral obligations he felt there, he'd probably almost never get to see Anna. 

Jacob has his personal moral negotiations between Denmark and India, as we see, and I think it does give broader implications toward the Developing and the Developed because we can see a good moral obligation at work because of this negotiation. Because of Jorgen's failed attempts at helping out negotiations in the past, he sees a kind of different presence with Jacob, which may be because of the emotional attachments he has toward the orphanage with Pramod. Jorgen knows he can entrust Jacob with the funds for this project, not only because I think he would have done it anyway- given his real motives for bringing Jacob to Denmark in the first place- but because I think he eventually sees the love that Jacob has for that little place in India, which mirrors, in a sense, the love he has for his family. He wants for them to carry on successfully after he is gone, just as Jacob so badly wants the money for 'his' kids in the orphanage so they can carry on too.