She’s unhappy that she can not be allowed to play so she impersonates her own brother at a different school and is determined to beat her schools boys soccer team to prove the point that girls can play as good as boys. The way Viola does this by getting help from her friends to change into a boy and take advantage that her brother is in England so she can become him for 2 weeks. She then goes to the school and tries to act like a boy and joins the soccer team. The room mate that she is boarding with is also on the soccer team things she is Sabastian her brother. There is many intamite moments where they help each other.
While Jess wants to be able to play, her parents feel that she shouldn’t be “flaunting her legs” and other such frivolous things; she should be learning proper Indian culture. Jess is unhappy not playing soccer so she pretends to have a job and sneaks away from her family to play with the team. As the movie progresses, Jess continually overcomes barriers her parents place between Jess and soccer. As the movie approaches its end, Jules finally decides that Jess can be with Joe and Jules won’t interfere. This resolution is met after the girls are accepted to go to an academy in California to play soccer.
Mrs. Bharma anticipates Jess to cook full Indian cuisine, find good Indian friends and find an Indian boyfriend. She also disagrees with her playing soccer because she thinks Indian girls shouldn’t play soccer. She states ‘I don’t want you running around half-naked in front of men.” However what Jess thinks is completely different. She does not think that she has cook Indian cuisine or date with an Indian boyfriend because she grew up in England, being a complete English person and despite her mum’s advices about soccer; she still heads off to play soccer. Mrs. Bharma looks at this defiance behavior of her daughter and completely goes against her saying “That’s it, no more Football!” Mrs. Bharma, who expects Jess to behave like a proper Indian woman and Jess, who thinks it is perfectly normal to act like English is an example of a dispute on culture.
Bich constantly threatens herself and her identity by competing with the kids at school in an irrational way, blindly believing in the American culture of early 80’s(commercials) and having no regard for her family, especially Rosa. Following these paths makes her lead different lives, the one in the school as a “good girl” and the one at her home as a brat.Attitude of this kind makes it very difficult for her to truly accept her natural self and her precious culture. The problem with Bich is that she is over ambitious sometimes; this is true when she tries to ace at everything at school, be it in her classes or her popularity as a “cool kid”.Also due to the different lives led, Bich isolates herself by making very few friends around whom she feel insecure most of the time. Bich says “Then there was Tara’s mother, who introduced me to beef Stroganoff and showed me that I had no manners.” The quote explores the mental harassment Bich had to go through just because she had a different culture at home .Bich surrounds herself with friends like Jennifer whose mom is a perfect homemaker which makes her look at Rosa differently, Jennifer is also a strict church going Christian, she is set in her own ways; making a mistake in her world
Marjane Satrapi did not like that idea of wearing the veil, not only she did not understand why they had to wear it. They also complain that it is too hot and some took them off to play, jumping rope and throwing them away. This requirement was shock to the children because before 1979, Marjane Satrapi had attended a French non-religious school where boys and girls had studied together. Marjane demonstrate, “The Year Before, in 1979 we were in a French non-religious school where boys and girls were together (150)”. Her belief about the veil was unidentified , she does not really know how she feels about the veil.
Coulter then goes on to provide several reasons why she finds soccer to be the harbinger of doom for American morality. One reason Coulter sites for her detestation of soccer is that it does not value personal achievement. The sport places value in making all the players feel valued instead of teaching an appreciation for the thrill of victory and an abhorrence for the agony of defeat. Coulter suggests that soccer is a sport that only a liberal mother could love since it allows co-ed play, which the legal correspondent believes makes it about as exciting as women’s basketball. Apparently, nobody likes women’s basketball either.
Bethan don’tbehave well. Lucy feels secure and safe in Bethans Company; she doesn’t like being a geek. Deepinside Lucy knows that it’s wrong hanging out with Bethan, but she ignores her thoughts totally.Even though she is very ashamed she is lying to her teacher about her friendship to Bethan due toher embarrassment of hanging out with her. Because Bethan is the popular and though girl at theschool. Everyone looks up to her in some kind, maybe because they don’t dare anything else.
Caught in the middle, they really wish they were still lost looking for the field. Out of nowhere, the soccer ball comes and hits the chair that was just set up. There was never a warning that soccer can be such a dangerous sport for the parents watching their child. Then another ball from the field behind where the chair was gets hit with yet another ball. Parents probably have it more dangerous than the players do.
In this scene, Jess makes an important goal making her team win and she is the big star. However, during the interview her mother appears and is scolding her for “showing her bare legs” and says that she should be at home learning how to cook, not around a bunch of boys playing soccer. It then cuts back into reality and her mother scolds her for watching the “skin-headed boy” instead of helping with her sister’s wedding. This shows that Jess's hobby is not the usual hobby, the usual hobby being,
She will stand up to anyone and anything, warrior-women Ugly Girl, as she puts it. She ends up dropping off the basketball team after not doing well in a game which also tells us that she is afraid of getting humiliated and be a laugh to others, but that is not her major problem. Her major problem is that she also overheard what Matt says and she is the one to convince the principal that Matt should be forgiven and allowed to return to school. What she does not count on is that she begins to actually be attracted to Matt, and for a girl who is been operating independently of what other people want and think, it is sort of a hard thing to deal