Camel Rider Essay

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Cultural differences can be challenging to relationships, yet it is people who have the ability to overcome challenges. How are challenges overcome in ‘Camel Rider’ or ‘Bend it like Beckham?’
Have you ever tried to communicate with someone who speaks a different language to you? Prue Mason’s fictitious novel Camel Rider displays the cultural challenges that people are faced with, shown through characters Adam and Walid. Adam and Walids’ difference in educational level comes as a challenge that must be overcome. Adam and Walids’ relationship is further challenged by their difference in principles and beliefs as a result of their childhood upbringings. They overcame both their Educational and upbringing challenges in their relationship via understanding …show more content…
Adam and Walid have different wants as Walid wants to be educated but can’t, and Adam is educated but doesn’t want to be. There is a language barrier between Adam and Walid, given Walid speaks Arabic and Adam speaks English. One situation in which this difference in culture came as a challenge was when Adam tried to give Walid a high five and Walid “ducks away like I’m trying to hit him”. Walid did not understand the ways of Adam’s cultural and as the two of them could not communicate Adam cannot simply explain that he was not being violent. Adam took the initiative attempting to overcome this language barrier and educational difference through showing him “how to do a proper hi-five”. Another relationship hindrance coming from their inability to communicate is seen through both Adam not being able express his feelings to tell Walid that he “is better than any mate I’ve ever had”. Their relationship suffers as they cannot ever truly understand what each other are thinking. Adam wishes that “he’d (Walid) speak English”. Over their journey Adam and Walid learnt to adapt to each other’s cultural differences and by the end they could read each other’s minds and they came together to “slam our hands together in a perfect hi-five. Adam and Walids’ difference in level of education comes as a challenge to their relationship as they cannot simply communicate or express
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