My Favorite Chaperone Analysis

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The theme I found in “My Favorite Chaperone” is about an immigrant teen whose mom and dad are not ready to accept the American culture. They’re from Kazakhstan and the conflict in this story is that Maya’s (the main character) parents cannot accept American culture, they want to stay with their old culture. They do not understand the way Maya plays with her friends and think it is inappropriate. The mood or theme of the story is immigrants and not being able to fit in. Maya wants deeply to go to the school dance and have a dance with her “friend” Daniel, but Maya’s parents do not want her going anywhere. The climax is where Nurzhan (Maya’s brother) volunteers to be Maya’s “chaperone” for the dance and she gets to go! During the dance Nurzhan

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