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
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
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