As a family they would watch the shows in their parent’s room. Alvarez essay was effective in explaining the importance of self-love. Her general audience was teenage girl watching television. Alvarez uses her personal experience to show the huge influence of mainstream media stereotypes toward women. Alvarez essay explains how her parents and media taught Alvarez self-worth.
Culture and Women In “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl or halfie” by Junot Diaz, both authors elaborate on culture, and how it shapes the outlook on women. In Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl” a mother enforces her cultures strong beliefs on appropriate female behavior onto her daughter. To do so, she displays her parental authority with a series of short commands influenced by her culture. A sense of naivety can be seen in the young girl after questioning her mother's request. The culture associated with “Girl” has a definite attitude towards women, believing they should live a modest, conservative lifestyle.
1/30/12 English II "Future Home of the Living GOD" I believe the story " Future Home of the Living GOD " is about Mary Potts . She was givenup by her mom when she was an infent, living with a foster family ( Alan & Sera ). They are a wealthy family that Loves and has high expectations for Mary Potts. Mary Potts is pregnant and believes theres an illness going on with her baby. She finds the letter her moms writes her and calls the number she left on it.
In the auto-biographical novel "Red Scarf Girl" by Ji-li Jiang, the protagonist Ji-li, greatly influences her own little world. Because of Ji-li’s actions, her family’s life is changed drastically. Ji-li was taught to put her country above her family. Throughout the story Ji-li's feelings about Mao Zedong continue to evolve. In the beginning she is very pro-revolutionary, but as time passes she realizes that Chairman Mao’s policies are not always correct.
Alice's parents tell her who she is permitted to see. They also instruct her how to dress, and of course how not to. It is through experiences such as Alice's younger sister falling off the bed, under her watch, that Alice's parents have a crucial influence on her self-discovery. Specifically, Alice's relatives influence her self-discovery journey by not being supportive. As Alice had to grow up basically looking after her self and her younger siblings she learned that even if you do not have support you still need to follow your dreams and live you life.
Shawn M. Henry Dr. Jerry Giddens English 111 February 9, 2010 In this book There Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston the main character Jaine Crawford is searching for love through relationships. These relationships were between herself, Nanny, Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Vergible Woods known as Tea Cake. Her grandmother referred to as Nanny took care of her when Janie’s mother ran away. They lived in a house on the land of Mrs. Washburn, Nanny’s white boss. Growing up Janie played with Mrs. Washburn’s children and wore their old clothes.
When these traits did not surface, Jing-Mei began to realize she did not have these traits and started to feel internally inferior. She slowly started to resent her mother’s continual control over her decisions and went in a different direction than her mother wanted her too. In Amy Tan’s short story, “Two Kinds”, the dialogue Tan includes within Jing-Mei’s flashback demonstrates that conflict and resentment can occur when not allowing your child to take his/her own path. In the beginning of the flashback, Jing-Mei’s mother is shown to be trying to control and dominate her daughter’s life. When she moved away from China, Jing-Mei’s mother had a vision that in America, you could be anything that you wanted to be.
Theoretically, intercultural persons have unique perspectives in communications because they can see situations from two different cultural backgrounds, most commonly from the individualistic and collectivistic cultures. However, this also places most of them in a double bind; they can see both sides of a situation but this ultimately leads to an internal conflict that they must resolve. The movie Bend it like Beckham exemplifies the dilemma that many intercultural persons must face. The protagonist, Jesminder or Jess, is an 18-year-old East Indian girl who lives in England. The movie documents her struggles to find a balance between the collectivistic culture of her parents and the individualistic culture in which she grew up.
She also strives to reconcile her two selves as “like many immigrant offspring, I felt intense pressure to the two things loyal to the old world and fluent in the new approved of on either side of the hyphen” (478). The author’s main point is that she felt that she was under pressure to have “two lives” because she could not focus on one side or another. And reality doesn’t allow her to do that. Lahiri, as a young girl, had trouble balancing her American life with the Indian life at home. She explains how her parents had grown up in Calcutta, and they tried to continue practicing the same culture in America.
Kambili’s life changes after she is beaten by Eugene and then leaves her house to live with Eugene’s sister Ifeoma, who encourages her children to share their thoughts and feelings. While living with Aunty Ifeoma, Kambili realized that she could defy Eugene’s strict views of Catholicism, and adopt the more liberal form of Catholicism practiced by Aunty Ifeoma – one that can still recognize the traditions of the Igbo people –the culture her grandfather, Papa Nnukwu. The Religious beliefs of Papa Nnukwu, Eugene, and Father Amadi show the different religious ideologies of three different generations of Nigerian people. The religious beliefs of Papa Nnukwu portray the beliefs of colonial Nigerians. Papa Nnukwu, Kambili’s grandfather, was the head of the whole Achike family.