Bend It Like Beckham

Katie Nolan, Francie’s mother, is the main reason that Francie is able to survive her arduous childhood and succeed in life. Food, heat and protection are always available to the Nolan children even if it means that Katie has to work multiple jobs or even sacrifice some of her own needs. Katie gives all she can to provide for her children and Francie truly values her mother’s hard work. Francie appreciates her mother’s thougtful acts, but still, Francie develops

Alex Morgan was drawn immediately to soccer at a very young age. Alex was born on July 2, 1989 in San Dimas, California. She grew up with parents who supported her in different ways. Alex Morgan’s mother is Pamela S. Morgan, her father is Michael T. Morgan, and her two older sisters are Jeni and Jeri. As a young girl the family moved to Diamond Bar, California (thefamouspeople.com). Morgan’s parents had supported her throughout her entire career. Alex Morgan’s father was her coach as a youth. Although Morgan’s mother didn’t coach her in soccer she found many ways to support her talented daughter. Alex’s mother and father are very different people. Alex’s mother would say, “Honey, if you lose, it’s ok,” but on the other hand Alex’s father would say, “You’ve got to be the best, no one remembers number two.” Alex Morgan said, “I feel really lucky to

bars. Juel’s mother was a very “white” mom, she wanted her daughter to be a straight woman who flirted with men and looked presentable. For example, in the beginning of the film there is a cutback between Jules and her mother and Jess and her mother. They are both shopping for clothes, and you can see that Jules's mother wants her to buy push up bras when Jules wants to buy sport clothes. On Jess’s side, her mother wants to buy Jess saris while Jess just wants “normal girl clothes”.

Family ties people down and brings people together. It chains people down with rules and regulations, caging them in with familial obligations. While most would not complain or fight against being encaged and molded into their parents’ desires, some let go, abandoning these duties in exchange for happiness. In the production Bend It Like Beckham, the protagonist, Jess, struggles with the reason why it is important to abandon family obligations when it conflicts with one’s personal desires.

What you want in comparison to what your family expects form you is a common disagreement through most family households. In the movie ‘Bend it like Beckham’ we saw the conflict between jess and her parents on how they feel and what they want for her, how jess sees the situation and how it is resolved. Throughout Jess’s journey she is constantly pulled in what she truly wants and what here family/culture expects (internal conflict).

One reason why I would allow my son to play football because it can build character “ it's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up”. You can play all day, and if you get down it don’t matter. What matters if you have the courage to get back up. “If you can believe it, you can achieve it”. No matter what you do, you shouldn’t have to put your mind into it, but believe in what you put your mind to and make it

Born and raised in Rigby, Idaho Melissa Clark was the best woman soccer player to ever live. Living in such a small town where soccer wasn’t ideal was quite difficult for her because it is something she loved to do but had to travel to do it. She started playing at age 3 with the five year old boys, her father trained her hard because he knew she had lots of potential. Running up and down the field like a cheetah because she had some speed. Growing up she had a pretty normal life. She went to school like a normal kid but besides school; all she did was play soccer and train with her dad. He pushed her very hard because he wanted her to be successful. Although Melissa seemed like a normal girl she definitely wasn’t, she had a very strange secret she had kept from everybody including her

Francie Nolan is an 11-year-old girl with a vivid imagination and dreams of someday becoming an author. However, she is limited by her surroundings, for she lives in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Her family has barely enough money to buy food and other necessities of life. Her mother is Katie Nolan, a strong, steely woman who meets every challenge that comes her way head-first, and her father is Johnny Nolan, an idealistic father whom Francie loves very much, but is an alcoholic. Francie is sure that Katie loves her brother, Neeley, more than herself, and she attaches herself to her father.

She wanted to play soccer forever, but right now, it looks like she’s going to stick with football. She became involved in football when her brother started playing football. Samantha always wanted to be like her older brother. He inspired her a lot. So when he started playing football, she wanted to play too. She started doing sprints with his team. His coach would always say that the boys goal should be to beat her. He said that because only two people could ever beat her. One problem that she always had was, that most people thought she was crazy, because she wanted to play football with the boys. The other problem she has is,most people thought that she couldn’t do anything as good as a boy. She is famous, because of her career in

She was a strong woman with a cutthroat personality who was unabashedly greedy and secretly conniving. Jeremy was a man with a big heart and an even bigger checkbook, it was a match made in hell. Claudia had always used her beauty to her advantage. She knew when people saw her they didn’t see her sharp mind, not even Jeremy. What people saw was her flowing ebony waves, her high cheekbones, and her soft amber eyes. Jeremy was much more average with sandy blond hair, pale blue eyes, and a lithe body; he wasn’t an unattractive man but his wife outshone him. These two people came together to make one bright and happy toddler called Amelia, a tiny thing barely squeaking past the age of three. She inherited the best of both of them, her mother’s looks and her father’s kind nature. Amelia was a surprise to both of her parents; their marriage was so new neither of them wanted to add something that may turn out to complicate their relationship. When she was brought into this world Jeremy was ecstatic, Claudia was decidedly less so, not that she would let her husband see. Claudia figured that she still was the wife of an affluent businessman and had all the luxuries she never dared dream of when she was a child. This would not affect anything, she would make sure of it, she would play the role of loving mother and devoted wife even if it pained her to do so. That plan was all well and good until Jeremy lost his money and

This seems to drive her throughout the whole story. One of the first ways we see her change is by quitting the soccer team. “I just don’t want to play anymore. I hate soccer. There.

Now it is 2:14 and Ellie has arrived and we got our pizza, so ellie was very outgoing, happy, and nice so kevin` decides that she is the perfect addition to our team and we would love have her for our tournament. While we eat our pizza we get to know ellie more and we decided to go to the dome across the street so we can show her some of our favorite moves. As we show her some moves we find out that she is not the best at soccer but Kevin decides we can still keep her as long as we work hard to get her

They should live each moment as though it is their last. They should live their life outside of their comfort zones. They should seize every moment and live their life to the fullest. The boys are told to look at things from a new perspective when they think they have everything figured out.

When Jabber Morris was asked to play football, not soccer, because of his father’s death, he gets bothered of that because he did not know what to do. It’s his first year on soccer, but he is known to be the best player in his team. The only problem is that Jabber’s family wants him to quit and play football instead. Since his father used to be a football star, his family wants Jabber

The main objective of this section was becoming the “complete player,” the player that has uncountable amount of achievements. The events Mia shares in the book, are some of her most valuable experiences. One example Mia Hamm discusses in the novel, was her wonderful opportunity to compete in the World Cup. The USA women’s team won not once, but twice when Mia Hamm was on the team, in 1991 and again in 1999. Even though both championships were wonderful, her first time winning was more exciting and memorable because it was the first women’s World Cup. Also, the author further explains the need of great technique and determination of an athlete to be able to thrive in opportunities. “ “ (Mia Hamm ) Within the section, The Complete Player, Mia Hamm elaborates her advice and her experiences to the reader to engage them in soccer.