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Comparison Of Joy Luck Club And Bissinger's Dreaming Of Heroes

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In the “Rules of the Games” or “Two Kinds” from the Joy Luck Club and Bissinger’s “Dreaming Of Heroes” from Friday Night Lights, the common theme of hope and confidence took place with Mike and Jing Mei being under the condition of pressure and their parents high expectations. Both of their parents has high expectations for their children because they wanted them to have a better life than they did. What Mike and Jing Mei failed to realize was that everything their parents provided them with was for the better of them. Pressure from being in the process to reach their parents expectations caused them to want to give up. In the novel Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, the common theme takes place when Jing Mei’s mother has a high expectation …show more content…

In the novel Friday Night Lights, Mike’s brother, Joe told him what hopes his father had for him. “You were the most special thing in his life, you’re gonna have to make him proud of you,” Joe was simply telling Mike that his father has high hopes for him to be able to make him happy in the correct decisions that he makes. This put pressure upon Mike because his dad wanted him to do what was right for him. His father and brother, Joe did this to encourage him to go and chase his dreams.”He told him he had to go to college, there would be no way about it,” his father was telling him that he has high expectations that he needs to reach like going to college. He was telling him that there would be no way for him to go around it and not go to college. His father wanted him to know that it was ok to get drunk but that he would struggle along the road of being in college. In this chapter there was a difference between, Charlie and his father Don. “It seemed impossible not to look down on the field and see his own reflection.” Don looked on the field as he watched his son, Charlie, play as if he could see himself when he was once a legend star. Charlie looked at this situation as him being just a particular ball player. He didn’t think of himself as a legend, or a star. He had a different mindset for him father’s point of

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