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Analysis Of My Favorite Chapperone By Jean Daviess Okimoto
The short story “My Favorite Chaperone” by Jean Davies Okimoto tells the message to accept different ways of life because Maya and her family come from Kazakhstan and they are trying to learn the American customs but are stuck trying to up hold their original culture. Since Maya and her family grew up in Kazakhstan and now are living in America things can be very different when it comes to Mama and Papa giving Maya and Maya’s brother, Nurzhan permission. The main conflict of the story is that Maya wants to go to the dance and her parents won’t allow her to because in Kazakhstan you don’t dance young. A main issue in the story is when Maya gets caught with a boy named Daniel Klein and her father, Papa catches them playing around. Papa did not

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