My Big Fat Greek Wedding Essay

Introduction
Have you ever sacrificed something in order to achieve your goal or dream? Well the book “The Raisin in the Sun”, by; Lorraine Hansberry is where a family, of five all living in a small apartment where waiting for a ten thousand dollar insurance check from their father who died. Everyone had different ideas what to do with the money so Mama bought a house with ⅓ of it and gave Walter rest and lost it all. Which resulted calling the man who didn’t want them living in the neighborhood were Mama bought the new house but turned him down saying his family had pride. In “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, by; Joel Zwick where this woman's family was greek and wanted her to only marry greek and do greek things but she falls in love with a man who is not greek and she is already thrity five so the family never thought she'd get married but later on he proposes and he has to go through greek baptism before marriage and they …show more content…
And luckily impressed them all. He was baptized greek, and had a big greek wedding, Ian change his lifestyle for Toula because he loved her. Beneatha from “A Raisin in the Sun” was hanging out with Asagi one of her love interests along with George. Asagi always talked about his culture to Beneatha. He always said how she should embrace hers so that's what she did and she started dressing differently wearing dresses to match her culture and she cut her hair short and stopped styling it, and started doing traditional dancing.Jin from “American Born Chinese”, was the only asian boy in his class and he was treated differently from the other students because of this he would always try to fit in by changing his hair by getting a perm. Until another asian boy comes he ignores him trying to fit in but he realizes that that's not right and he becomes his best