The movie introduced a traditional American family. A family where the income producer is the father (the man is expected to be the sole provider for the family), who have been discharged from the job, consequently unlocks a financial hardship for the family that already has an adverse situation. Adding to the dilemma of how to pay for the health care of the elder’s problem with diabetes, the son, who is to carry the family genes, the one that has to excel in sports to prove his manhood (It is imbued that the male will succeed in life if he is suitably in sport, as life is a place on competition and only the strongest can survive), while the father advise the son on how to perform better at the softball game, the mother and sisters cheer
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On their way home, even though the mother can drive, the husband is the motorist (The man is in control in every situation, and decides which direction the family must take, and what is good for the family, when the family is together, the man is in control). Moreover, the mother is a housewife or stay home mom, who cooks for the family and the daughters arrange the dining table (The wife, the only one who can cook, and maintain the home, while taking care of the kids, and training the daughters for their future in housekeeping duties. During the course of the film, it shows that the family is very religious, and the mother is the pillar of their religious strength. The mother regularly is listening to the Christian radio station, and the one that enforces the prayer before the meal, for the son to play well in softball and for a miracle to occur to take away the son’s ailment. While the father has been weak in the Christian belief, as he was the one who took his son to the doctor to acquire the insulin to control the glucose level in the kid’s blood, the father is the one that does not pray before taking the juice as breakfast before going to try to find a job, the one that considers that the medicine can be the son’s salvation, and is having a predicament of believing that a miracle can save his
On their way home, even though the mother can drive, the husband is the motorist (The man is in control in every situation, and decides which direction the family must take, and what is good for the family, when the family is together, the man is in control). Moreover, the mother is a housewife or stay home mom, who cooks for the family and the daughters arrange the dining table (The wife, the only one who can cook, and maintain the home, while taking care of the kids, and training the daughters for their future in housekeeping duties. During the course of the film, it shows that the family is very religious, and the mother is the pillar of their religious strength. The mother regularly is listening to the Christian radio station, and the one that enforces the prayer before the meal, for the son to play well in softball and for a miracle to occur to take away the son’s ailment. While the father has been weak in the Christian belief, as he was the one who took his son to the doctor to acquire the insulin to control the glucose level in the kid’s blood, the father is the one that does not pray before taking the juice as breakfast before going to try to find a job, the one that considers that the medicine can be the son’s salvation, and is having a predicament of believing that a miracle can save his