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The short story "Driving" is about a young woman named Yvonne Hamada from USA who is married to a Japanese named  Ryu. Yvonne is a typical,  young, American woman who wants to drive whenever she feels like driving. The problem is that it is not normal for a woman to drive in Japanese culture and she has to adjust to this culture.
Yvonne has moved to Japan to live with her husband Ryu, and to teach English. It is difficult for her to come to terms because many things are different compared to America. She has to learn the Japanese culture and conform to the culture. Ryu´s behaviour is much like Yvonne´s because he follows his tradition in Japan but at the same time he is open to new ideas and wants to be a part of an other culture like the American culture. In following qoutation it is clear that he is interested in Yvonne’s culture and even if they are in Japan they should not forget Yvonne’s native land. ”Ryu’s love of American freedom, frankness and Major leouge baseball.“ Even if he is thoughtful, he is dominated because the things that happen at home are as he says. “You don’t need a license “ “ I’ll take you wherever you want to go” . To begin with he says that Yvonne does not need to drive in Japan but later she does so that she can help mother in law.
Mother in law Mrs. Hamada lives with her husband but she wants to divorce him because she cannot communicate with him anymore. He just drinks and plays GO, but one day when he was working, the pain shot trough his arms and chest and Mr. Hamada died of a heart attack.
 

Mrs. Hamada is a woman who interferes much in Ryu and Yvonne’s live. This is a huge problem for Yvonne because she is not used to that but she takes it easy and is open to new ideas and opportunities. It seems to me that she accept the Japanese culture, but she still holds on to her own opinions. When her father in law dies, Ryu wants to take care of his mother and therefore he spends a lot of time with her Therefore Yvonne has to live alone for several days. It seems that Ryu concentrated a lot on his mother and forgot Yvonne which shows that the love between Ryu and his mother is very strong.

Ryu spends a lot of time with his mother, and Yvonne seems to be jalous because Ryu wants to take his mother to the beauty salon, to the grocery store, to the art museum and she also signed up for lessons in yoga and English conversation. Later she starts driving to school and after that she deseeds to go on a tour to Malaysia and she wants to go all over the world. Yvonne wants to do these things too but she cannot because Ryu’s job keeps him busy most of

Rettede noget af det for dig, men i det store hele er sætningerne ikke vildt godt formuleret, så det kan du arbejde lidt med i dine senere stile. Sørg for at udsagnsordet står i den samme tid. Skriv kortere sætninger. Mindre talesprog og mere skriftsprog. Undgå at skrive kind of og it seems to me eller I think.

The main theme in the text is culture. Yvonne and Ryu have(s) met because of their interest for first been drawn together by mutual culture(al) curiosity, because Yvonne is interested in traditional Japanese arts and Ryu loves American freedom. Yvonne is a typical American girl who a is married withto a Japanese who she really loves and wants to be with. The only kind of problem is that she has to learn deal with a new culture, which doesn’t mean any thing to them.their love.
The short story “Age” by Linda Bellos and the poem “So You think you are beautiful” by Becky Ayebia Clarke is about people who look(ing) down on black people and who don´t want doesn’t wants to help them. For example in the poem, the big black girl tries(y) to get some help from a white girl, but she doesn’t help her on the contrary she provokes her. The white girl knows that they don´t(esn’t) have a size 14 but still she asks “Can I help you” just so she can irritate the black girl. The story “Age” is also about not taking care of people. but Here we hear about the British people who don´t(esn’t) care about the elderly as Africans do(es), which This reminds me about of Yvonne and her mother-in-law. because Yvonne doesn’t want to take care of about her, maybe because the culture is so different. People in Africa and Japan are more close to their(s) families(y) than people in Britain(ish) and e. g.(x). Denmark. We are used to that the elderly take care of themselves or that they get some kind of home help .

 Those things is something Yvonne wants to do these things but she cannot because Ryu’s job keeps(t) him busy most of the year. Many of her plans remain undone.so far most of the trip they had talk about before they sleep were just wishes . Yvonne’s problem is that she is to much concentrated on about Mrs. Hamada and her life, and not her own life. Maybe Perhaps she thinks that they in Japan have(s) to take care and live with the mother-in-law when her husband dies, because Cousin Kanaco told her that she lives with her mother- in- law, and that thought scares Yvonne because then she has to give up her reading time to drink tea with her mother-in-law.