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.
Lucas Ocampo Mr. Rucker English G Mother transformation analysis Through the Tunnel not only shows how a kid learnt a very important life lesson, but also how a mother learns to become less overprotective over her child. In this story a mother goes with her kid (Jerry) to the beach during summer and she decides that he is old enough to go spend the day by himself. As much as she hates leaving her son on his own, she knows that she should not be over protective but it’s a challenge that the mother faces throughout the story. The mother was very doubtful on whether to let Jerry spend the day by himself without any adult supervision, she was worried for her son’s safety. Many things could go wrong if her kid was by himself, like having sunstroke or even breaking a bone and nobody would be there to help him.
born wife Betty and daughter Mahtob to visit his family. Once there, Moody decides he wants to stay in Iran, believing it would be a better place for the family. Betty disagrees and tries to leave with her daughter, although Moody is determined not to let that happen. In the movie Not without my daughter, because of Betty’s displacement, she feels as though she doesn’t belong and she is not seen as an equal in Tehran. And this contrasts with how she felt when she belonged and had her identity in America.
She wants her sons father to rekindle their relationship and for them to be a family. She also wants to start taking classes at a community college but her mother or boyfriend are not supportive of her doing so. Jenna does not trust leaving her son with her boyfriend because he really does not spend any time with him or seem to be concerned with him. Her boyfriend only is concerned with Jenna taking care of his needs by cleaning and cooking. Jenna’s mother and her get into arguments over Jenna asking her mother to watch her son.
Julia loves watching the worms and is upset when they quit moving. Then she realizes that they are molting. Julia’s mom agrees to let her spend a bit longer time at Mr. Dixon’s, but Julia continues to have questions in her mind about prejudice and racism. Patrick refuses to hold the worms, and Julia finds out he is afraid of them. She finds that hard to believe because boys aren’t supposed to be scared of crawly things, and Patrick had wanted to do this project.
Matt now has a son, a good wife, and an ordinary life; he still has a good family life without going to university. In contrast with Kate, although she has good education and job, she doesn’t have her own family and in fact, she says, “I had never thought I would really love anyone.” (89) From another perspective, she seems to be the one that is going to have a sad life. Similar with Luke, when he rejects Sally it is due to his responsibility as a caregiver. He is happy with his decision since it is for his family. If Matt chooses to go to university instead and leaves Marie, he will most likely lose his happiness and truly be an emotionless “nerd” and suffers like Kate who does not truly knows the meaning of love.
As she suffers from finding a stable income and house for her family, Moody’s mother Toosweet encourages Moody to do well in school. However, her push to ensure Moody to succeed in school is only to prove to her husband Raymond’s family that her daughter is as smart as his family, not encourage Moody to attend college and fight for her rights. As a child, Moody was unaware of the oppression and inequality that African Americans had suffered. As she constantly questioned her concerns to her mother about the incidents that occurred, her mother always told her, “Just do your work like you don’t know anything” (Moody, 123). She realizes that her mother ignores the racial acts against her community and becomes alienated within her family as well as her community when she fights for her rights.
So, she left Athens and went to New York with her two children, Nene and Anthony, with only a few dollars and support from her family. But eventually because of her lack of financial resources, she was unable to take care of her children. She sent them back to Athens to live with her sister and her sister’s husband. As a young child, Nene was an uber-confident young lady, but on the inside she was a timid, insecure little girl. Her aunt made her life really easy and nobody would ever know if her family was suffering from financial difficulties or if there was a
Tula asked her aunt if she could work for her and her aunt told her yes because she is family. Another definition of family is when Tula was going to present her future in-laws to meet her parents, her mother invited all of the family. 3. What is the place/importance of marriage and family for those of Greek heritage? Are there certain conditions or expectations regarding marriage?
Ian Millar finds it easy to belong, as he is an understanding man who embraces the foreign Greek culture. Toula Portokalos finds it hard to belong in the mainstream culture because of her family’s culture, mostly because of her father having strong morals this is shown through dialogue “Marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and feed everyone in the family till the day you die”. Toula is different to her sister Athena. Toula’s immediate appeal to the audience is her struggle with what she is supposed to do or be. The relationship with Ian first emerges because Toula feels that she does not belong in the Greek life style or the life to which her family wants her to belong