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‘Bend it like Beckham’ By Vivienne Anand
‘Bend it like Beckham’ tells the story of an Indian girl who would rather play football than cook chapattis. ... In her school, and with her friends, she acts like a typical English girl, but her mother expects her to be a proper Indian girl. Her mother would like Jess to learn to cook, clean and marry early with an Indian boy of her mother and father’s choice and start up a family. ... When Jess was younger her parents let her play as much football as she wanted, but now that she is older they would like her to stop playing football and “settle down”. ... Jess’s mother does not like her playing football, because traditional Indian women are meant to cook and not going around showing off their body. ... But she is afraid to tell her parents and she thinks they won’t let her go, so Tony (Jess’s best friend) takes her by the hand and says in front of Jess’s family
“You know how we have been good friends for a long time now, well we would like to ask you for your blessings. We would like to get engaged, but on one condition, I would like Jessminda to go to collage first, anywhere she wants”5. ...
‘ Bend It like Beckham’ explores homosexuality when Jess asks Tony out because she is trying to hide her love for Joe. Tony totally surprised her by saying
6Tony; ‘I really like Beckham. ... No one can cross a ball, or bend it like Beckham
Tony; No Jess, I really like Beckham. ...
Another example where ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ explores homosexuality is when Jules’ mum thinks that Jules is a lesbian because she wears track suit pants and is sporty and doesn’t seem to be that interested in boys - she isn’t interested in buying pretty clothes, or bras and she isn’t into wearing makeup.
Approximate Word count = 1567
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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