Bend It Like Beckham Essay
Outline
Paragraph one: introduce the backgrounds of the article and the film.
Paragraph two: compare how the parents teach children about respect elderly in article and film.
Paragraph three: compare the different values the parents and children have in both resources.
Paragraph four: compare how the parents wish the best for their children in both resources.
Paragraph five: summarize that the relationship between parents and children.
Parents-Children Relationship in Swimming Lesson and Bend it Like Beckham
Parents-children relationship always would be a topic between different generations, they would have different concepts and different opinions about the same thing, especially when the family …show more content…
immigrates to other country, there would have an extra difference which is culture difference. Children are always easier to adjust and accept new cultural influence than their parents, which is like Jess in the film “Bend it Like Beckham”. Or when the child moves to western country, the parents want to know every details about his life and work, as the author describes in the article “Swimming Lesson”. Both of them are taking place in Indian families, and there are many similarities between how these traditional Indian parents deal cultural differences with their children. Cultural differences always come to people when they immigrate to a new country because they feel like themselves as a stranger in a strange land. It is not only between different races, also between the different generations in the same family. In the article, because the parents were still in their own country, they have a different view from their son who lives in Canada (Mistry). Similarity, Jess’s family immigrated to England and the parents worried about their daughters’ forgot their own culture and grew up like “English fella” (Bend it Like Beckham). This paper will talk about three aspects of the parents-children relationship between these two resources, which are how to respect elderly, different values between two generations and parents always wish children the best even they have different values.
First of all, in a traditional Indian family, the most important thing for parents to teach children is to respect their elderly. In the article, the narrator’s Mummy insisted him to visit his grandpa when he was sick and lived in hospital because “blessings of an old person were the most valuable and potent of all” (Mistry 254). Jess’s mother also said “what bigger honour is there than respecting your elderly?” when her coach came over and tried to convince her parents to let her play football (“Bend it Like Beckham”). Therefore, take care of the sick elderly and follow the elderly’s order are parts of Indian’s of their culture. However, sometimes, it means if there have different opinions between parents and children, it is a rule to listen to parents because that is the respect.
Different values is main conflict between two generations.
In the article, father was not happy because Kersi did not want to his new life in Toronto, but he still asked mother to remind Kersi to pray at least twice a day; however, his mother believed he would not do it anymore (Mistry). In the film, it was much more clear to illustrate that how different the values parents and children had. From the parents’ side, they wished their daughter (Jess) to learn how to cook traditional Indian food, instead of playing football. Her mother considered that was “running around half naked in front of men” (Bend it Like Beckham). As the traditional parents, they still treat their child as a little kid, tell him what to do or not, even them already grow up. However, the children might be think they are independent and want to live the life they want. That is the different values between Kersi and his parents. For Jess’s case, she grew up in England and she wanted to chase her dream. However, her mother believed every girl had to learn how to cook, because “which family will want a daughter in law run around kicking football all day but can’t make round chapattis” (Bend it Like Beckham). Jess’s mother and she really had a deep gap on values. Nevertheless, Jess still follow her mother’s wish to give up on football until her father save her …show more content…
dream.
Last one is about every parent wish the best for their children.
In the article, the author mentioned that father was not happy because Kersi wrote many negative sides about Parsi families in his book, but he still was surprised and proud of him to be published (Mistry). Likeness, Jess’s father finally supported her dream to go to the final of her football tournament because he give up on cricket which is his favourite sport, he did not want his daughter suffered the same experience as he had (Bend it Like Beckham). As parents, they give and wish the best for their children, even the children do something they might not agree
with.
Parents-children relationship is always difficult to figure out who is right or who is wrong, especially when parents and children have different backgrounds because of immigration or moving out of country. Most of time, they have different values, but parents and children sometimes do respect each other and wish each other the best, it would help in many cases when there is cultural conflicts.
Work Cited
Mistry, Rohinton. “Swimming Lesson”. Making a difference: Canadian Multicultural
Literatures in English. 2nd Ed. Kamboureli, Smaro. Ontario: Oxford University Press.
253-267. 2007.
Bend it Like Beckham. Dir. Gurinder Chadha. 2002. Film.
Paragraph one: introduce the backgrounds of the article and the film.
Paragraph two: compare how the parents teach children about respect elderly in article and film.
Paragraph three: compare the different values the parents and children have in both resources.
Paragraph four: compare how the parents wish the best for their children in both resources.
Paragraph five: summarize that the relationship between parents and children.
Parents-Children Relationship in Swimming Lesson and Bend it Like Beckham
Parents-children relationship always would be a topic between different generations, they would have different concepts and different opinions about the same thing, especially when the family …show more content…
immigrates to other country, there would have an extra difference which is culture difference. Children are always easier to adjust and accept new cultural influence than their parents, which is like Jess in the film “Bend it Like Beckham”. Or when the child moves to western country, the parents want to know every details about his life and work, as the author describes in the article “Swimming Lesson”. Both of them are taking place in Indian families, and there are many similarities between how these traditional Indian parents deal cultural differences with their children. Cultural differences always come to people when they immigrate to a new country because they feel like themselves as a stranger in a strange land. It is not only between different races, also between the different generations in the same family. In the article, because the parents were still in their own country, they have a different view from their son who lives in Canada (Mistry). Similarity, Jess’s family immigrated to England and the parents worried about their daughters’ forgot their own culture and grew up like “English fella” (Bend it Like Beckham). This paper will talk about three aspects of the parents-children relationship between these two resources, which are how to respect elderly, different values between two generations and parents always wish children the best even they have different values.
First of all, in a traditional Indian family, the most important thing for parents to teach children is to respect their elderly. In the article, the narrator’s Mummy insisted him to visit his grandpa when he was sick and lived in hospital because “blessings of an old person were the most valuable and potent of all” (Mistry 254). Jess’s mother also said “what bigger honour is there than respecting your elderly?” when her coach came over and tried to convince her parents to let her play football (“Bend it Like Beckham”). Therefore, take care of the sick elderly and follow the elderly’s order are parts of Indian’s of their culture. However, sometimes, it means if there have different opinions between parents and children, it is a rule to listen to parents because that is the respect.
Different values is main conflict between two generations.
In the article, father was not happy because Kersi did not want to his new life in Toronto, but he still asked mother to remind Kersi to pray at least twice a day; however, his mother believed he would not do it anymore (Mistry). In the film, it was much more clear to illustrate that how different the values parents and children had. From the parents’ side, they wished their daughter (Jess) to learn how to cook traditional Indian food, instead of playing football. Her mother considered that was “running around half naked in front of men” (Bend it Like Beckham). As the traditional parents, they still treat their child as a little kid, tell him what to do or not, even them already grow up. However, the children might be think they are independent and want to live the life they want. That is the different values between Kersi and his parents. For Jess’s case, she grew up in England and she wanted to chase her dream. However, her mother believed every girl had to learn how to cook, because “which family will want a daughter in law run around kicking football all day but can’t make round chapattis” (Bend it Like Beckham). Jess’s mother and she really had a deep gap on values. Nevertheless, Jess still follow her mother’s wish to give up on football until her father save her …show more content…
dream.
Last one is about every parent wish the best for their children.
In the article, the author mentioned that father was not happy because Kersi wrote many negative sides about Parsi families in his book, but he still was surprised and proud of him to be published (Mistry). Likeness, Jess’s father finally supported her dream to go to the final of her football tournament because he give up on cricket which is his favourite sport, he did not want his daughter suffered the same experience as he had (Bend it Like Beckham). As parents, they give and wish the best for their children, even the children do something they might not agree
with.
Parents-children relationship is always difficult to figure out who is right or who is wrong, especially when parents and children have different backgrounds because of immigration or moving out of country. Most of time, they have different values, but parents and children sometimes do respect each other and wish each other the best, it would help in many cases when there is cultural conflicts.
Work Cited
Mistry, Rohinton. “Swimming Lesson”. Making a difference: Canadian Multicultural
Literatures in English. 2nd Ed. Kamboureli, Smaro. Ontario: Oxford University Press.
253-267. 2007.
Bend it Like Beckham. Dir. Gurinder Chadha. 2002. Film.