Daughters

saying he was cancer free. That what makes me feel at home. In the short story “Gaston” by William Saroyan. Gaston feels at home when he see his family. Gaston takes his daughter to a coffee shop in paris and goes and buys a kilo of peaches. He gives his six year old daughter a peach, and gives himself a peach to. After Gaston daughter eats half of it a bug in it that falls out. The little girl doesn't know if she wants to keep or squash it like everyone…

the girl listening to her mother who’s advising on life and becoming a woman. From the daughter point of view I can see the mom is very harsh, angry and frustrated with her because she believes her daughter is going down the road towards promiscuity and wants to prevent that. The mom is very wise and knows how to clean and cook as well as knowing social decorum, in which she’s trying to instill that in her daughter at an early age. I think her mother already been through some of these situations…

Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14). The poem begins with a mother and daughter discussing a Freedom March that is supposed to happen that day. The mother refuses to allow her young daughter participate in the march fearing that “those guns will fire.” (line 14). However, she allows her daughter to “go to church instead. And sing in the children’s choir.” (line 15). The mother sees the church as being a better destination…

differences between being a daughter and son because of the gentile parts. Girls play with baby dolls, dollhouses, and hairdressing sets wanting to be just like their mother. As for boys their toys consist of trucks, footballs, and video games…

protective over their daughters when they begin dating. In “First Date” the father portrayed by Kevin Hart follows his daughter around on her first date with a guy. “First Date” adequately persuades fathers with teenage daughters to purchase the “Hyundai Genesis with Car Finder” (“First Date” 00:00:45-47). In the beginning of the commercial, a guy knocks on a door. A teenage girl answers the door, then a concerned father follows. The father tells the date to take his new car. As the daughter…

“The Writer” by Robert Wilbur portrays the speaker, a father, who sincerely hopes for his daughter’s success in her writing career as well as in her life. As, a writer himself, the speaker silently waits for his daughter in the staircase as he hears her struggle through her writing journey. Robert Wilbur, not only creates the title “the writer” to convey the audiences the daughter’s aspiration as a writer, but to convey that writing itself is a journey. Wilbur seems to direct this poem to other…

due to promoting gender roles, and stereotypes; whereas, “If I Had a Daughter” by Sarah Kay, the proposed approach by Kay would be much more effective due to the encouraging of breaking gender roles and stereotypes.…

relationship with the mother and daughter, I believe it was ok for him to cooperate with the mother and not disclose her daughter information, but only until her regular physician came back. I think once the patient’s physician returned from out of town, he should have spoken with the mother about informing her daughter about her diagnosis rather than keeping it confidential. This way they can determine how they want to further the daughter’s treatment. Unless the daughter does not want to know…

becomes even bigger because of the two different generations and a linguistic barrier; these obstacles make the daughter and the mother continually misunderstand each other. Tan touches the readers with bitter moments and humor when the daughter and the mother try to achieve the American Dream. The narrator shows the readers her family conflicts when the mother believes and wants her only daughter to become a great success…

In the story, the daughter could not overcome her hatred of her parents refusal to assimilate to American culture and ended up moving out and not seeing her parents. The daughter resents her parents from afar and it causes her to be unhappy. Amy Tan’s Two Kinds, tells the story about a mother trying to inflict her idea of the American dream and being successful on her daughter and the daughter and mother clash over this idea and tensions rise. The mother…