Bend It Like Beckham

When dealing with multicultural issues in class, many teachers decide to work with the highly recommended novel “Bend it like Beckham.” Written by Narinder Dhami, a British children’s author of Indian descent, it is based on the original screenplay by the 2002 comedy-drama film of the same title. Just have a little insight into the story of flouting the rules to reach your goal.

The eighteen-year-old Londoner Jess is actually just a normal teenager who enjoys playing football and is crazy about football player David Beckham. Everything would be fine if Jess was not a young, beautiful girl of Indian descent whose traditionally-minded parents dislike shorts and want her daughter to become a law student married to a man who shares her ethnical background. However, without informing her parents, Jess joins a women’s football team. From then on, she shares her extraordinary secret only with her new friend. Unfortunately, after a while, when she falls in love with her trainer, the situation becomes more and more complicated. Jess gets in trouble: neither shall their parents know about the “forbidden game” nor about the “forbidden love.“ But as we know, every secret is disclosed sometime and for Jess, this happens in a particularly unfortunate moment …   

Dhami, Narinda. Bend It Like Beckham. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH, 2003. Print.