“My Favorite Chaperone” In the short story, “My Favorite Chaperone,” by Jean Davies Okimoto, Maya a 9th grader from Seattle wants to go to a school dance, but she’s afraid her parents might not let her. The first main event in the story is when Nurzhan gets in trouble for fighting. He stood up to a bully that had been bullying him for a while. Even Though he was standing up for himself, he still got suspended and was in trouble at home. After that, Maya got caught in the arms of her crush, Daniel. At home, both her parents scolded her for what she did. Both Parents did not talk to their kids at all. Not too long after Maya was caught, Maya’s mom hurt her leg. This left Maya’s mom unable to do anything. Because of Maya’s moms injury, Maya
There is a slight glimmer of hope when the school year ends and the girls all receive their report cards. They stand eagerly in the hallway, none of them can break their gaze at the slips of paper in their teacher’s hands. Pashtana finishes 15th in her class and in this moment looks forward to a new year in the 8th grade. Unfortunately, Pashtana and her family were living off of $7 a week, a dollar to spend a day. She soon got married to her cousin and has not been back to school since their last day.
The short story, “Likes”, by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum follows the various emotions a father, Dave, feels for his pre-teen daughter, Ivy, who has inherited his joint problems. Throughout the story, a therapist helps Ivy better her joints and Dave learns how to communicate with his daughter in ways he did not before imagine. The story is about bettering oneself physically, but also about how parents have a hard time communicating and engaging with their growing children. However, once parents stop avoiding and feeling uncomfortable with their children’s differences, they can find a way to grow back together with them.
Sixth grade Jodee enrolled at a private academy and the first few months were without incident. Jodee reveled in having friends and tried to do everything right to stay in their good standing. The trouble started when she called her mother to leave a party early. Jodee begged her mother not tell what was going on with the twelve year olds—but they were all caught in the act. Monday morning at school she found her favorite suede shoes floating in a toilet bowl of urine with a note attached—“Bitch, this is just the beginning.” She was cruelly treated, spit at, beaten, and shunned on a daily basis. Her parents were sympathetic to her dilemma and finally forced her to see a psychiatrist. She was placed on medication that made her very sleepy. The psychiatrist said that “kids will be kids and that possibly she was looking for attention from her parents.
There is this teenage girl name Leah who lived in New York, she was ending her first year of high school as a freshman at Flushing High School. On the last month of classes around June she was hanging around with her best friend Henry. After class, they would hang out together and go to the city to explore and waste time, but there was one thing Leah had to tell Henry, her family had to move to Mexico because her parents thought that they will have a better life. So Leah had to leave with them. She told Henry about her moving with her family to Mexico, so they decided to go out to places before she left. They went out to the theatres, walked around the city, and get something to eat like Burger Kings or McDonalds. It was soon Leah had to leave,
The fictional short story “Star Food” by Ethan Cain is about a teenage boy named Dade who has difficulties with understanding his parent’s reasonings along with even more problems as a woman begins to influence him unpurposefully. As he is growing up, he has moments with his parents where some things would please the mother or the father. It is revealed that the mother is someone that loves to dream of possibilities and discoveries where his father is disciplinary and is more serious. The summer he turns eighteen he meets a quiet woman who steals from the shop and as more time passes on, the more paranoid he becomes. The reason why Dade let the woman go in “Star Food” is due to his conflicted feelings of intimidation and fear from the woman
This story is about the friendship of too girls from very different families. Carlotta is a darker skinned girl whose family is "new money". She wants to go to Scared Heart Academy for her high school education. Scared Heart does not let in girls of her skin tone. The school has been financially struggling and Carlotta's father donates money to the school, which in turn get her accepted in to the school. Since she is new money she was not "locked up" in her home her whole life. She knows the town and tells her friend Merceditas all about the way things are there. The other girl, Merceditas come from a very wealthy family who has been this way for gene...
There is a keyword in this story, and the word is "girl." That word is brought up all the time in front of her, as though her family thought she did not act enoug...
Teenagers often wish their parents would leave them alone. However, in Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, Esch Batiste wishes just the opposite. With her mother dead and her father distant, she lacks a guiding force in life. Parents should be the first and longest lasting teachers in a child’s life, passing on lessons and offering support for their growth. Not having parental figures is tragically detrimental to a child’s maturation, leaving them alone to figure out the world, which often comes with the cost of making misinformed decisions. As Esch is thrust into adult life, she strains to remember the teachings of her mother and is often left lonely and without instructions on how to stay alive and love herself as a woman. Esch relies on her
Parental pressure is often part of a child’s life. The pressure depends on gender, society, and also culture. The really short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kinvaid is a conversation between a mother and daughter. The mother talk most of the time; she gave a long series of warnings and advice to the daughter, who responds only twice. These advises are mostly about how to take care of her dad, or future husband, and also household chores, cooking, manners, social conduct. The voice of the mother seemed commanding and “bitchy” but the mother seems to expect a great deal of her daughter, and she did say what she had to say to let the girl know it.
In the story “My Favorite Chaperone” by Jean Davis Okimoto, the message or theme is that even when everything seems like it’s going wrong it can turn around right before your eyes. Maya goes through up’s and down’s through the story but she tries to stay positive all the time. The setting of the story is in a couple of places including the school, Maya’s house and America. I think the most exciting part (climax) is when Nurzhan asks Mama is he could “chaperone” Maya to the dance and Mama said yes! When I think of the falling action I remember when Mama gives Maya the bracelet and they have a bonding moment and Maya just knows that everything is going to turn out right. I think the resolution is when Maya is sitting in bed after she had a great
On Monday morning, KayDe was at her school's career center when she noticed the weekly newsletter for the staff. "Freak dancing is ... obscene!" she read in Mr. Bennett's column. All dances were going to be called off, he had written, unless students came up with a plan to stop the freak dancing. "I couldn't believe that he was serious," KayDe says. "That's just how we dance—like my parents used to do the twist!" She and Kelley had been elected to plan the Sadie Hawkins dance in February, and if Mr.
Learning through experience is a necessary part of life. In Liliana Hoker’s “the stolen party”, Rosaura learns a valuable lesson about her social position. In the beginning Rosaura is innocent about her social class. While at the birthday party, her naivety continues and causes her to be oblivious to her surroundings. However, at the end of the party, Rosaura’s innocence is shattered when she becomes unaware of her social standing. In the story, Rosaura’s innocence before the party causes her to be ignorant to the reality of her social class. Experience inevitably leads to a loss of innocence.
Parent/Child relationships are very hard to establish among individuals. This particular relationship is very important for the child from birth because it helps the child to be able to understand moral and values of life that should be taught by the parent(s). In the short story “Teenage Wasteland”, Daisy (mother) fails to provide the proper love and care that should be given to her children. Daisy is an unfit parent that allows herself to manipulated by lacking self confidence, communication, and patience.
The book “My Favorite Chaperone” written by the author Jean Davies Okimoto has a very good theme. The theme which is also known as the message in this story is that you should be patience with people even if bad things are going on because something good can always come out of whatever situation you are in. This is like how in the story the family was having some struggles after moving and Maya really wanted to go the dance and in the end she got too. This stories setting was at Maya’s school and her house for the most part. The main characters in the story were Maya, Mama, Papa, Nurzhan, Aunt Madina, and Daniel. There were also many other characters but these were the main ones. Maya is definitely the main character because there isn’t a single
They’re from Kazakhstan and the conflict in this story is that Maya’s (the main character) parents cannot accept American culture, they want to stay with their old culture. They do not understand the way Maya plays with her friends and think it is inappropriate. The mood or theme of the story is immigrants and not being able to fit in. Maya wants deeply to go to the school dance and have a dance with her “friend” Daniel, but Maya’s parents do not want her going anywhere. The climax is where Nurzhan (Maya’s brother) volunteers to be Maya’s “chaperone” for the dance and she gets to go! During the dance Nurzhan