"What's Cooking" Analysis

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Essay 4, Critical Analysis Critical Analysis In the movie, What's Cooking, cultural family events drastically impact the behaviors of the characters in a negative way. The director, Gurinder Chadha, shows how four ethnically diverse families celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. These include Vietnamese, African American, Jewish, and Latino families. These families are extremely offbeat and go through very negative family situations. Family traditions impact the Nguyen and Williams family. Infidelity influence the Avilas and Williams family. Certain relationships effect the Seelig and Williams family. Parental lack of understanding impact the Nguyen and Williams family. Lastly, Teen rebellion influence the Nguyen and Seelig family. These five personal situations will greatly affect these character's behaviors negatively. Families traditions is an important aspect that drastically effects these two families negatively. Every family has their own ways of celebrating this lovely holiday we call thanksgiving. Some families like to bake specific things like a passed down family recipe of a sweat potato dish or like the Williams family, a big bowl of homemade mac and cheese and cornbread stuffing. Grace is the grandmother in the Williams family, and she is a typical grandmother. For example, watching over Audrey, her daughter in law, cook and have lots to say about it. Grace notices that Audrey is not making a bowl of mac and cheese and she is not too thrilled about it. Grace acts this way because she clearly wants to keep her tradition going. She made this dish for her son when he was a little boy and wants to keep it this way. When Audrey thinks the turkey is finally done cooking and takes it out of the oven, Grace says that the turkey is not done and that it is still pink inside. Also, she adds, “Thanksgiving is the easiest meal to make, throw it in the oven, the

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