The young couple is played by Sandy Dennis (Honey) and George Segal (Nick). Taylor, a British American actress who became one of the great actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, won an Oscar for playing Martha. Also, Sandy Dennis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Honey. The film starts with Martha and George drunkenly making their way back from a college faculty party to their messy house where they begin to prepare more drinks. Their relationship is immediately defined by drunken verbal battles, which reveals their emotional dependence upon each other.
Mariam, the elder of the two, is ‘a harami’ the illegitimate daughter of Jalil, a prosperous businessman and one of his housekeepers. After a tragic death of her mother, when Mariam is only 15, her father marries her off to Rasheed, a much older Kabul shoemaker. After a few relatively peaceful years, after it becomes apparent that Mariam will not bear Rasheed the son he expected, his behavior escalates into constant verbal and physical abuse. At this time her life intersects with Laila’s, whose parents were killed in a rocket attack, as the family was preparing to flee the country to Pakistan. When Mariam and Rasheed come to the girl’s aid, she is approximately the same age as Mariam at the time of her marriage to Rasheed.
Once, Shahrazad (King's vizier's elder daughter) makes a plan to save herself and other virgins and asks the father to give her in marriage to the king. The plan is that she tells a story every night, but she stops when the story reaches its interesting point and promises to finish it the next night. Shahrazad's stories are so interesting that the king wants to hear the end. During his concernment, the king puts off punishment from day to day and finally he abandons it (Norton, The Thousand and One Nights, 1566-1567). Some people believe that Shahrazad's stories are the beginning of feminism while others not.
She then goes to the Hsus' house which felt, “heavy with greasy odors.” (Tan 15) She acts very courteous to everyone and respects the wishes of her elders as displayed when she accepts to take her mother’s place at the mahjong table. She feels out of place because she is younger than everyone else, and she finds out that her mother had made excuses for her to the other members. Although June dropped out of college, her mother told them that she might go back for a degree. “..but I know right away she’s lying. I know my mother probably told her I was going back to school to finish my degree.” (Tan 27) As the chapter is coming to an end and the night is at its peak, Jing-Mei starts to get up to leave but when the women stop her and tell June that her mother had left behind two infant twin daughters in China, she was shocked.
She has a daughter named Jing-mei and starts another Joy Luck Club with three other women. Jing-mei and Suyuan never truly understand each other because of their cultural gaps. When Suyuan unexpectedly dies Jing-mei must take her place in the Joy Luck Club. At one of the meetings her mother’s friends tell her that Suyuan found her lost twins right before she died. Suyuan’s most cherished wish was that she could be reunited with her long-lost twin daughters.
The movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s is about a Broadway film that highlights a fictional love story in the time of war. A young, beautiful, and lost woman only searching for money in order to escape life with her brother meets a dashing man, who looks like her brother, and oddly enough has the same job. These two immediately become the best of friends and before one knows it they begin developing feelings for one another. Although it may have taken Holly Golightly some time to understand her life parallel to this new love, she finally learns that she fell in love and although scared, knows she will always be happy with Paul Varjak from then on out. Breakfast at Tiffany’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a romantic love story between a woman named Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, and Paul Varjak, played by George Peppard.
The daughter of the Verma family accepts the groom, who she didn’t know before, when she ended the affair with a married TV producer. Besides the main line, the “Monsoon Wedding” has some other real life dramas interwoven through it to make this film become more impressive and special. At the beginning, the film didn’t intrigue me so well. However, chaos happened in this big family, which more and more attracted the audience. The family's rich friend Rajat Kapoor, has been found guilty of raping Aditi’s cousin when her cousin was a child, the wedding planner has a secret love with the maid and so on.
But one women in particular seems to stand out from all the others, the one who is trying to change and break away from all the pain and sexist rules. This woman as referred to in this poem is a “star-gazer” she is full of optimism and hope that she can change and show everyone that woman are far for capable to work in an office and not just cooking in the kitchen. In India, women don’t get very far in their education. Many stop school after the 10th possibly 11th grade to get married. Parents seek desirable husbands for their daughter and send her away to live with him and her in-laws’.
Imitation of Life The conflict between mothers and daughters has been a theme in Hollywood since the beginning of film. Sometimes director picture the conflict badly like in “Mommie Dearest” and others do it well like in “The Joy Luck Club”. “Imitation of Life,” by Douglas Sirk starring Lana Turner and Juanita Moore fit in the right in with the movie that take the mother and daughter well. Lora Meredith (Turner) is a single thirtyish widow with the ambitious to be Broadway actress. One day, Susie, daughter of Lora, wondered off on the beach leaving Lora to look around for her, Lora with a photographer, Steve Archer’s help she find Susie with Sarah Jane and her mother, Annie Johnson (Moore), a single African American widow.
Acting Cultural Event Report For my cultural event report I saw the CSHS Theatrical Play Legally Blonde, which is a play about a young lady who is love-struck over her boyfriend but is falls into depression after he dumps her to go to Harvard Law. However, she manages to overcome her depression and try to follow him into Harvard and impress him enough to take her back. However upon arriving, she sees that he has a new girlfriend and goes to a hair salon to cut all her hair out of frustration. In the hair salon she makes some new friends that urge her not to get involved with her former boyfriend and be her own person. In the end, the girl gets married to one of her helpful friends and finally accepts that she is her own person.