Literature Discussion-Conflict between parent and child.

Q2. Select 2 or 3 stories in which there is conflict between parent and child, and show how far there is some resolution of this differences at the end of the story.

Story-Lee
A: The conflict between Lee and Lee's dad is that Lee criticized about the people in Singapore and how they dress. Lee's dad disliked her tone and chided her.
Another conflict is of the way Lee dresses and Lee's dad did not like it and said in irritation to why did Lee had to dress in that odd, casually scrappy ways of her. Lee rebutted that he suggest what way should she dress and he told her that at least the 'wimps' in the supermarket are neat. She said they were tacky and Lee's dad scolded back that he hated her using that word.
The resolution between Lee and her dad is when he told her of the story of how the Chinese and Indians had magnificient culture while the Caucasians were still not settled yet. He told her about how things changed and that in the end, it became that the Westerners were the one who ruled. He told her of how it became likke the Chinese and the rest looked like fools. Basically , he told her of the history of the world. 
The conflicts between them were resolved because Lee's dad let out what he had wanted to say for a long time and Lee understood what he had been meaning. It resolved their differences.


The Martyrdom of Helena Rodrigues.

George has been bought up to become a person who grow up ground between millstones of sacrifice and unselfishness.
Helena's tactics enable her to tyrannize most people, including her own son, George. George was moulded from infancy into a perfect guy for his mother's techniques. Helena nurtured in him a hypersensitivity of conscience which bordered upon the pathological ;
George was bought up to believe that insulting his mother's devotion to him was the ultimate blasphemy. Helena, scared of losing George, had kept him by her side.
When George was sixteen, when he acquired his driving license, he had dropped by to visit his uncle [the narrator], when his mother, Helena, was having her hair done.
George rejected his uncle's invitation for having dinner then next day because he was worried that his mother, Helena would be left alone at home, and scared that she would feel lonely, thinks that he couldn't leave his mother alone.
Helena pick that day when George had taken the car out all afternoon to make a trip to visit her sister, his aunt. She chose to travel by bus, at the hottest time of the day, to visit the most remote, the most phone-gossipy, and most indignant of his aunt. Causes George to hardly uses the car even since, lest his mother should again to forced to such hardship.
" His spirit, if it had not been broken before, now was thoroughly crushed. "
George met Caroline when he grew older, and she also convince him that his mother is a lady Dracula. Sensing that the power over him is endanger, she worked to tighthen her grip. Using the weapon of ill health, and again, she didn't told George anything, wanting to use someone's else mouth to pass the message to George.
On George's wedding day, Helena's doctor, Doctor de Cruz, summoned in great alarm, and told George that his mum is in great danger. Which causes him to cancel his wedding.
In the end, Helena as still left alone, because George died before her