In the story, “My Favorite chaperone” The author, Jean Davies Okimoto portrays many themes. The one that I found that fit this story best was that if you help out others than they are most likely to return it when you need it the most. The protagonist or main character in the story is Maya, a student at Beacon Junior High who moved to America with her family. They moved from Kazakhstan and now live in an apartment.The main conflict is that Maya can’t go to the dance because “Mama” thinks as stated on page 5 “Mama says she thinks the school is strange to have parties and events after school when students should be doing their homework. When Nurazahn is in school he is bullied, but he gets tired of it and gets in a fight. Maya rewords the principles
Often the change and transition to middle is a difficult one for students, so it is no surprise that a student of Juanita’s caliber would be having trouble as well. Her regular middle school teachers were not going above and beyond to make sure Juanita succeed, if anything it seemed as if Juanita was a burden to them. If it was not for the Ms. Issabelle’s effort, Juanita would have failed the 6th grade, and possibly fell through the cracks of the education system.
She’s just so weak. If she would stand up for herself, no one would bother her. It’s her own fault that people pick on her, she needs to toughen up. “Shape of a Girl” by Joan MacLeod, introduces us to a group of girls trying to “fit in” in their own culture, “school.” This story goes into detail about what girls will do to feel accepted and powerful, and the way they deal with everyday occurrences in their “world.” Most of the story is through the eyes of one particular character, we learn about her inner struggles and how she deals with her own morals. This story uses verisimilitude, and irony to help us understand the strife of children just wanting to fit in and feel normal in schools today.
I learned many things about Philip Caputo and his tour of duty. He described how he felt in the beginning about the Vietnamese people, which was not as much hate since him and the other soldiers were not as knowledgeable about all the conflict that was taking place in Vietnam. Caputo was very opinionated towards his views of the Vietnamese people. He actually felt sorry for all the villagers who had to see and deal with the negative environment that was brought upon them, and bear the Marines who probed their homes for prohibited Viet Cong relations. Caputo did not find it fair how the American troops mistreated the villagers and protected the concept of apprehending the Viet Cong. However, throughout the end of his tour, he and his men disliked the VC very strongly, learned how to hate and wanted to kill them.
In the story Jubilee by Kirstin Valdez Quade A young very bright Latin American woman, Andrea, struggles with feeling like she’s been accepted in today’s society despite all of her achievements. These feelings tend to peak and turn negative whenever she’s around the family of her father’s lifelong employer, the Lowells, and in particularly their daughter Parker. Although the Lowells, as a whole seem to love Andrea and her family, she finds that their success and good fortune directly correlates to her family’s second rate citizenship. This story reveals that obsession with being accepted as an equal can be an ever increasing stressor that can severely damage a child’s identity, social skills and ultimately lead to misplaced resentment and
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
In “My Day in Jeggings – Confessions of an Average Guy in Extraordinary Pants”, Marty Beckerman describes his experience in wearing female jeggings, where he focuses not only in the social aspect of what people thought about him, but he expresses his own thoughts about what it actually feels like to use the garment. He explains his experience throughout funny and relatable things modern people (teenager & young adults) can relate to, as he is a professional humorist. If he had used a more serious tone for this piece, it wouldn’t have been as interesting as it is now. This is not to say that this is not a serious topic, it’s just the way Beckerman formulates his statements makes it easier to follow. Further into the piece it is noticed that
In most short stories the author writes a story about an experience they have had or something they have made up. In David Arnason’s, “A Girl’s Story,” the first thing that catches the eye is the title. David Arnason incorporates the readers in the story; he writes a story about the process of the author writing a romance novel. The story is entitled, “A Girl’s Story,” because the author tries to write a novel a female would write, or would want to read.
There are many reasons why Miss. Strangeworth reminds me of someone that I know, and cherish very much. In all honesty, her personality accurately represents the most important person in my life: my own mother. It’s quite easy to tell that Miss. Strangeworth is a very meticulous woman, with a lot of perfectionist tendencies; a few of which are to nitpick people’s lives and make sure that even the most minute detail is up to her standards. Of course, organization and precision are good qualities to have, but at the extent used by one of my closest family members, and Miss. Strangeworth as well, they become flaws rather than strengths. For example, the other day, I ran
The story “My Favorite Chaperone” is about Maya’s family, which consists of her brother Nurzham, her mother Mama, and her father Papa; her friend Shannon; and her crush Daniel. Maya’s family emigrated from the country of Kazakhstan and is learning to adapt to the culture of the United States.
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
In Jean Davies Okimoto's "My Favorite Chaperone," an imigrant from Kazakhstan describes her relationship with her conservative parents, who rely on her to translate for them but still limit her fredom.
The theme I found in “My Favorite Chaperone” is about an immigrant teen whose mom and dad are not ready to accept the American culture.
The Outsiders a book was written by S.E Hinton. Is Johnny a coward or a hero? Johnny is a hero because he sticks up for others and Johnny is brave because he saved Ponyboy and he’s courageous because he saved the kids in the church while it was on fire. Johnny is a hero because he sticks up for others. Dally was harassing Cherry and Johnny sticks up for them. “Leave her alone Dally” pg.24. Johnny is a hero by saying that to Cherry. Ponyboy and Johnny get jumped and Johnny stabs Bob. Johnny is a hero by saving Ponyboy from the socs. Johnny has gone for supplies bologna, bread, cards, cigarettes and bleach. Johnny is a hero by getting them supplies.
The Scholarship Jacket is a story which has been written by Marta Salinas. The story is about a Mexican girl named Martha. In the article, a scholarship jacket was presented to the class valedictorian. This scholarship jacket was the only object in Martha's mind. She was a skinny girl, and not very pretty either. However, she was incredibly smart and had maintained an A-plus average in her eight years of school. That year, all her hopes came crashing down. She overheard a conversation between two arguing teachers, about how the jacket should be given to Joann since her father was part of the Board and also owned the only shop in town. The next day the principal called her in, telling her that the scholarship jacket was going to cost fifteen dollars, and if she couldn't pay for it, it would be given to the runner-up. Martha left school tearfully and was even more heartbroken when her a Grandfather said she couldn't have the money. She wept her heart out in the bathroom, though she knew her Grandfather was right when he said that she shouldn't have to pay for something she earned. The next day, she dejectedly told
The story “My Favorite Chaperone” was written by Jean Davies Okimoto. The idea of this story is of a teenage girl that moved from Central Asia. Also, along the way they are challenged with everyday decisions the Americans make easily. When Maya goes to her new school she stumbles upon getting a dance permission slip. She thought it was just scrap and to just ignore the dance since she thought Papa and Mama wouldn’t approve. Later on, Nurzhan gets bullied and fights back while Maya get blamed on keeping an eye on him while they’re in different schools. Then it was Maya’s turn to get in trouble by getting picked up by an American boy for fun even though it wasn’t serious. She knew for sure she wouldn’t go to the dance. Her brother decided to