1. Short Story - The Baby Monitor
Then she would sit with him at the kitchen table" (66) Jameel (Jimmy), his son, on the other hand was a boy who knew how to watch someone and learn how to do it. ... I"ll put this over the kitchen radiator" (78) As you can tell he has learned how to take care of his dad the way his mother used to. ... They are both two independent people, even though Jimmy is a little boy. ... "Some day the boy will own his own business and sell all the food in wax paper" (79) The story is called Monkey Business, I believe this is because of how Jimmy can pick up on things and his father cannot. ...
When she was asked what she would like to be in the future and answered that she wants to be a police, her family started to "Ooh that's so sweet but cop is a boy's field. ... Meanwhile, we do not do the same thing to girls because no matter how hard we push them, they will end in the kitchen for they are so passive. ... Since they know that they will get a baby boy, they start to paint the baby room with blue color and, later, buy "masculine" type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. ... The girls are also taught not to be a naughty girl for "to be naughty means to be a...
Their next goal was set on having a boy. ... They then wanted another boy, and so they tried once more, but this time they had another girl. ... We lived in a small trailer home with two bedrooms, one bathroom, a very small living room, and an even smaller kitchen. ...
In this scene he shows how bad he felt about his son and says, "Homer I've been confuse about you, I've been mad at you, but boy that is the fist time I'm shame of you I in my life." ... The scene where he's in the kitchen with his father and mother they're eating on the table and he's father thanks him for working very hard on the mines. ...