Not Without My Daughter

because of my age and because I play both of these roles combined, people have mixed perceptions of me. Some of those people are baffled, and some of those people actually admire me because of it. These attitudes often come out in the same phrase: “I don’t know how you do it.” It is the tone in their voice and the look on their face that gives me the impression of how they view me. However, the only people whose perceptions I take to heart are my particular others- my daughter, my friends, and my family

that Romeo and Juliet have met their fate. Second of all Capulet was already had pre-determined plans with Gentle Count Paris to have his beloved daughter Juliet to marry him at the right age. Although Capulet had no intentions to ruin her life. He was in fact in favor for his daughter not letting Paris to marry her so soon and wait for her approval. Without Capulet turning down Paris at that moment Juliet would have been married to Count Paris before she would have met Romeo. Unfortunately at the end

friends and their daughters. It tells the story of the mother’s struggles in China and their acceptance in America, and the daughter’s struggles of finding themselves as Chinese-Americans. The movie starts off with a story about a swan feather, and how it was brought over with only good intentions. Then the movie goes on, the setting is at a party for June the daughter of Suyuan. Suyuan has just past away about four months ago, and her mother’s friends have found her long lost daughters. But it is

relationship between mothers and daughters, the problems faced by the migrants, values and life style of Chinese culture in elegant way. Nevertheless, I think the writer has only focused on the dark side of life , only pain, sacrifices, hardships and conflicts have been shown. At first, my view for all the mothers was positive. Though the way of loving their daughters is different and a bit strange, truth is that they love their daughters and have sacrificed a lot for them. In my view, the novel would have

father’s role in a child’s life is extremely important when it comes to a child’s development. With so much emphasis placed on young black boys needing their fathers during crucial developmental ages, the rate of our young black girls growing up without fathers is staggering and overlooked. What is an absent father? The definition is quite simple; an absent father can be defined as a father who is not present in the life of their child whether it is physically, emotionally, or both. Although the

that she killed Rasheed while he was trying to kill Laila. Mariam did this to protect Mariam, and even though Mariam died in the progress, she did what she had to do to for her and Laila to survive. In Not Without My Daughter (1991), Betty did everything she could to try and get her and her daughter Mahtob back to their home, America. Betty lied to her husband about where she was, risked her trust in people she should not have, but eventually was able to get back to America because of the help of a

a Chinese mother and daughter are at odds with each other. The mother pushes her daughter to become a prodigy, while the daughter (like most children with immigrant parents) seeks to find herself in a world that demands her Americanization. This is the theme of the story, conflicting values. In a society that values individuality, the daughter sought to be an individual, while her mother demanded she do what was suggested. This is a conflict within itself. The daughter must deal with an internal

look back on their life. I suppose it depends on where you stand with yourself and how you choose to reflect. As of lately, I have felt the most content with myself than I have ever in my life. When I look back and reflect I see more positive than negative, even if the reality of that isn’t true. The most meaningful of my life experiences would be when I became a mother and when I found God. Although they both may sound cliché, it is how I found the right path in life. They both tie in together to make

themes are having to do with the variances of cultures between American and Chinese cultures. These differences cause many of the generational gaps between the mothers and daughters. Many of the differences start with the concept of high and low context cultures. Because of the low/high context cultures, the mothers and daughters based their relationships on the attitudes and ways they were taught as they were raised. The question begins with, what in the world is high and low context cultures? It

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club shows us through the story of the lives of immigrant mothers and daughters, the conflicts between four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and husbands due to cultural differences, the heritage and preservation of the cultural heritage, and the impact of the old society's unfairness to women. Cultural differences and age generation gaps can be affected, parents can have a hard time understanding their children's behaviors, children can think that