Charleena Hendly is an actress who performed in many hit movies until she decides to move back to Culpepper her hometown for a little break. She was very tired of making movies and also recovering from her heartbreak of her husband cheated on her for a model and left her. After all that she has her little helper Macon who cleans the house and does many of her errands around the town, So Macon friend of Foster introduces her to Miss. Charleena and one day Macon is so sick with a fever he cannot go at her house so he sends foster to substitute for him while he is sick. That’s when Foster gets a paper with many chores for her to do around the house given by Miss.
These stories illustrate the struggles of the residents of Mango Street who want a better lifestyle. The story “Alicia Sees Mice” indicates Alicia’s mother has died so as the oldest,she must take on the responsibility of being the housewife. Alicia doesn’t want to end up like her mother beinguneducated and a stay-at home housewife.Although Alicia performs the tasks of cooking and cleaning, she attends a university andby commuting on two trains and a bus to get to her school. Alicia’s father doesn’t worry too much about his family since he only wants to come home relax and having his meal ready with fresh tortillas. Alicia alsofulfills her mother’s role by sleeping with her father.
Della Mae Justice took in her niece and nephew who were in foster care. She didn't grow up to immediately become middle-class. What Justice did was work so hard to climb out of the working-class to become middle-class so that her niece and nephew could have more than what she was offered when she was their age. Aware of the financial situations, Justice is compared to others in the upper and working class, she struggles with the different cultures each has. Lewin quotes Justice when she says, "'My stomach's always in knots getting ready to go to a party, wondering if I'm wearing the right thing, if I'll know what to do..." (70) This happens because of the different cultures the middle-class, which Justice is now in, presents, compared to the lower class she used to be in.
In 1960, Vivian took Debbie and her siblings to live with her in Mexico. After almost two years in Mexico, the Allen family returned to Texas, where the twelve year old Debbie auditioned for the Houston Ballet School. Debbie’s performance was good enough for admission, however the school denied her entry based on the color of her skin. Fortunately, a year later, a Russian instructor at the school who saw Debbie perform and secretly enrolled the aspiring dancer. When the admissions department discovered what had happened, they were going kick her out but they were so impressed with her skills that they let Allen stay in the program.
In the beginning of “The struggle to be an All American girl”, Elizabeth Wong started out with describing Chinese school in her living town and wrote about her and her brother’s experience of changing their culture from Chinese to American since they were children. They went to the Chinese school because her mother pretention to keep their cultural estate even though they hated it. At the school, they learned not only Chinese but politeness as well. The school in her memory smelled like “mothballs or dirty closet”, and the principal was look like a “maniacal child killer”. She also described her learning Chinese like the most boring thing in the word by using some words as: “kowtow”, “chant”, “sing-san-ho” and ideographs letters.
* Sister Act 2 In the sequel to the hit comedy Sister Act,(Whoopie Goldberg)reprises her role of Deloris Van Cartier, a Las Vegas entertainer who hid out with in a convent of nuns to avoid a nasty bunch of gangsters. In Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Deloris is persuaded to return to the convent by the Mother Superior (Maggie Smith), because her help is needed in teaching their choral students at St. Francis High in San Francisco. However, St. Francis is in a crisis, since the administrator running the school (James Coburn) is threatening to shut the place down. If the gospel choir wins first place in a singing contest in Los Angeles, St. Francis will be saved from the priest's plans. Though the plot is rather thin and derivative, Sister Act 2 is lighthearted fun, thanks to good musical numbers and winning performances from the cast.
That is when Jing-Mei's mother begins trying to change her daughter into something she is not. First she wants Jing-Mei to be a Chinese Shirley Temple. She decides if her daughter is going to achieve this, she needs to look the part, so she decides to make her hair curly. When the lady at the beauty school screws it up, they have to cut off the curls, and her mother said, “You look like Negro Chinese” (194) as if it were Jing-Mei's fault. The instructor of the Beauty School fixes her hair but she now looks like a girl with Peter Pan hair.
Ribbons Book Report By Paige Robison Ribbons is a fictional story written by Laurence Yep about a young girl who is forced to give up her greatest passion in order to help her family bring her grandmother to the United States. Although ballet means everything to 11-year-old Robin Lee, she is forced to give up her lessons. Her parents need every cent they can save to fulfill their long held dream of bringing her grandmother over from China before Hong Kong becomes part of the communist mainland. Although Robin is crushed by her parent’s decision, she is determined to maintain her skill by practicing alone and with friends, but it is difficult and she feels that she will not be able to achieve as much in ballet since she is forced to quit
Anna sues her parents for the rights of her own body. The book got me thinking about certain morals and about what I thought was right. I think that is very sad that Anna feels, and was brought into this world just to save her sister’s life. Since Anna is the perfect genetic match for her sister, Kate, her parents force her to undergo many surgeries. It is basically just giving up her life just so her sister can survive.
On the other hand, her mother has to adjust to the cultural differences in America and her dream of living the life she never had through her daughter. At this point we wonder can Jing-Mei ever live up to her mother's expectations and does she even want to. For the most part they both have conflicts within themselves and with each other. Generally, like many before her, Mrs. Woo believes in the American Dream: that with hard work and a little direction her daughter can be anything that she strives to be and will not have to undergo any of the hardships she went through as a child.