Self to Text Connection: "Rules of the Game" and The Seemingly Inevitable

From "Rules of The Game": "Aii-ya. So shame be with mother?" She grasped my hand even tighter as she glared at me. I looked down. "It's not that, it's just so obvious. It's just so embarrassing." "Embarrass you be my daughter?" Her voice was cracking with anger. "That's not what I meant... "Why do you have to use me to show off?.." My mother's eyes turned into dangerous black slits. She had no words for me, just sharp silence... I jerked my hand out of my mother's tight grasp and spun around, knocking into an old woman... I ran until it hurt and I realized I had nowhere to go, that I was not running from anything. The alleys contained no escape routes."

In this scene, a young asian girl named Waverly, runs away from his mother, feeling used and frustrated with how the mother acts about Waverly's status of a chess champion. Her mother insists that she has contributed in her success however Waverly doesn't entirely feel the same. This scene displays the breaking point and she realizes that she has no where to run to since she's merely a child. There are many times where my father is in the wrong, I break from him, and then forcibly returning to him since he is older. Since he has authority. Since he is my father. For example, during our personal discussions or 1 on 1's, whenever he was in the wrong, he would diverge from the topic at hand and express how disrespectful I was for talking back or how I should always listen to his advice. However, if a mistake was to be considered and my father does realize his mistake, sometimes, he would disregard the fact that a dispute even occured earlier which frustrates me since I feel like nothing was accomplished or established within our previous exchange. I would get very heated and angry but knowing that my father is my ride to school everyday, or the person that gives me permission to hangout with friends, I put aside my emotions. And like Waverly's mother, my father has conflicting personal values and this foreign perspective, simply because my father was raised differently. LikeWaverly, I am in this dilemma, caused by ignorance and family dynamic, and conflicted due to reasoning of a parent's values. If I manage to fall into this sitatuation, I completely understand and nowadays I just accept it, however there are times where I would feel desperate and it would seem inevitable.