Tension in Different Families
In the movie, "What's Cooking?" directed by Gurinder Chadha, there are four families from four different cultures. Everyone's habit and way of thinking is sometime very different from each other; however, even though the cultures are different, the characters in the movie face similar problems that create tensions among family members.
First of all, education in each families is a good example of how tension is created by similar reasons. Every family has a child who faces the problem of education and school issues, even if they have a totally different cultural background. The Nguyen family, which is the Vietnamese family, has all four children still in school. The one who is really in trouble at school is the third child in the family, Gary. He steals a test. "Your stupid brother got suspended from school, stole a test" (Jenny). The family has a background of thinking that education is very important. They may ask Gary to get a good grade, but he needs to work very hard to get a such good grade. He do not want to work so hard, so he steals a test to try to increase the grade because he is not that smart to get such a high
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When Moore's family, the friend of Audrey Williams, comes to their house, a teenager girl, Monica, who is the daughter of Moores' behaves very uncomfortable and just like some kind of rebellion teenager. "How do you feel about the whole Ebonics thing?"(Monica) said her when everybody are trying to avoid the topic of Michael's study. She is rebellion because of some some reason. Her dad walker out on her mom which is mentioned by her during the "fight". This issue made she becomes very rebellion. She talks comfortlessly all the time and she tries to behave happy when trouble comes. This created a problem between she and her father. And as she done in the house, troubles are being fired up in Williams' family by her. She created a lot of tension in the two