Mitty's Ideas About Ballet And Her Parents

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This essay will be discussing Ditty’s ambitions and ideas about ballet and her parent’s point of view about how she should conduct her life. The essay will also be about the reasons that Ditty lied to her parents by continuing her attentiveness in ballet. Being in a Heradi Jewish family, Ditty’s life revolves all around her religion. There are certain rules that she must follow, things that she must do and things that she must not. Haredi Jewish girls must follow all of these rules until they reach 12 years old that is when they have a bat-mitzvah which is a ceremony for welcoming them into the Jewish world of adulthood. For example, they can only eat kosher food, they weren’t allowed to watch T.V. and on Saturdays (Shabbos) they must go to…show more content…
She says “I’m too old for you to tell me what to do.” and “I’m not asking for permission.” both on page 238. She doesn’t like the fact that her parents are always controlling her and wanting her to live by the commandments of the Torah and her religion. “If you leave now, if you set foot out of that door, you are not to come back home. Do you understand, Yehudit? You are not to come back.” – page 2. When Ditty’s father said this, it was probably the most important decision that she has had to make throughout the entire book. This quote was said in the prologue and the prologue ended after her father said that, so during the whole book the readers were waiting to see what her decision would be near the end of the book. In the end, Ditty’s decision was to walk out of the house to go to her ballet recital, but she was not only walking out of her house, she was walking out of her past life, her family, and most importantly, her religion. Ditty was so passionate about dancing that she was willing to give up her family and her religion to be a dancer because dancing is her life. “Dancing is so important to me.” – page 237 In this story there is much conflict between Ditty and her parent, but in the end Ditty’s reasons and point of view for lying and defying her parent seem to shine through more that her parents

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