My Big Fat Greek Wedding Ashley Pinksy Azusa Pacific University GLBL 210 Global Studies C. Renaldo June 18, 2008 The film I watched on Sunday, June 17, 2008 is named My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Toula is 30 years old and is the main character. She lives with her parents, works in her family’s restaurant, and is single. Her father, Gus wants her to get married to a nice Greek boy, cook for her family, and have Greek babies because that is what Greek women are raised to do. However, Toula wanted more to life.
Toula is depressed because she has no self-esteem, as she has mousy brown, stringy hair, big glasses and feels she is unattractive, also because she is in her thirties and not yet married, let alone have a boyfriend. Until she gets married she will open and close the family restaurant every day. Her family wants her to marry a ‘nice Greek boy’ and have children, and cook for them all, but Toula wants to marry for love, not just a traditional marriage with a Greek man. Toula and her family live in a big white house with columns and a big Greek flag on the garage door, to show people they are Greek and proud of it. The Greek flag brings more colour to the end of this scene.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Interpersonal Relationships Toula Portokalos is a 30 something woman of Greek heritage who falls in love with Ian an American protestant. This is one of the relationships in this movie that shows intercultural communication competence. Intercultural communication competence is the knowledge, skills, and personal attributes needed to live and communicate with other cultures through motivation, tolerance for ambiguity, open mindedness, knowledge and skills. The first intercultural relationship we see is that of Toula and her father Gus. Although Toula is in a Greek family with a strong cultural heritage, she is also an American woman.
Case Study # 3 Michael & Amy Michael and Amy appear at your office for crisis counseling. Michael, 22, comes from a somewhat controlling Italian family. Amy, 20, comes from a large and powerful Japanese family that settled in California five generations ago. They want to get married in the fall, but they fear the reaction of their families. After dating casually for six months, they were forced to end their relationship because of objections on both sides.
When Jane finally returns, their daughter, Anna, and her long time boyfriend tell Jane and Wilson they want to get married in a matter of months. Wilson Lewis does all he can to help Jane with planning, and takes advantage of the time he is getting to spend with her. Wilson starts surprising her with little things, such as making a romantic dinner for her. As he works to “recourt” his wife, Jane, he finds himself falling even more in love with her than ever. “I stared at her, wanting and not wanting to wake
Beneatha is his sister and Travis is his son. During the play Walter and his sister Beneatha do not see eye to eye with their thoughts on the way the rest of the insurance money should be spent, they are getting insurance money because there father died. During the play Mama makes a decision to put a down payment on a house in an all-white neighborhood which is unheard of during this time. But there is money left after she does this and the family discusses what should be done with it. Walter wants it so he could become owner of a Liquor store, whereas Beneatha wants to go to go school to become a doctor.
Konstantina Konstantina was twelve when her father came home one day smiling a smile she hadn’t seen since the day Nickoleta was born. He had finally worked enough to afford to send his three daughters to the America’s to become well educated Greek women. Akantha, Konstantina's older sister was three months pregnant and back to living with her father because her husband died a month earlier from a fishing accident. Their younger sister Nicoletta had just turned 10 and was showing signs of their mother's sickness. Konstantina couldn't understand why their father was sendning them away with her sisters needed constant medical attention.
There is no enjoyable memories that her mother could think of after Beth points out that the solely pleasurable memory her mother has with April is hers. Therefore, these factors are the causes of why the relationship with her mother is alienated and fragile. April is the girlfriend of the African-American person named Bobby. As April has invited her family to join her and her boyfriend on Thanksgiving Day, they are required to prepare a feast in the festival for her family. The film “Pieces of April” has well illustrated that Bobby and April are looking forward to April’s family to come over to celebrate the festival.
It recounts a teenage girl, Josephine Alibrandi’s last year of high school where she discovers who she is through both positive and negative circumstances. As being an Australian born Italian girl, Josie faces strong difficulties standing between these two cultures. At beginning, Josie views her family as something which stops her being herself. However late on in the story, Josie’s friend John Barton’s death makes Josie realize that although she is poor, she is free to choose the sort of life she wants. John’s life, however, was controlled by his family and suicide seems to be the only way out for him.
The fight results in broken glass and a broken nose for Derek’s new girlfriend. As punishment for the fight she is sent away from the summer to live with her Aunt Jeanette in eastern Nevada, because with her father finally expecting a son and does not need to handle the stress Pattyn creates. As Pattyn stay with her Aunt Jeanette- who tells Pattyn to call her Aunt J starts, it turns out she enjoys her stay