What is Daniel's mother's profession in The Karate Kid?
In The Karate Kid, Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to southern California.
He tells the new kid he meets that his mother works in computers or something.
Daniel: My mom got a job with some company out here. Rocket Computers. Flight of the Future. I don't know.
Freddy: I never heard of it.
Daniel: It's up and coming.
But then later on they are at a restaurant next to Cobra Kai, his mother is dressed nice and it seems like she's talking about working at the restaurant.
Guess what. I'm going to be trained as a manager. Isn't that great? The program's two nights a week. As soon as a spot opens up, you're in. And the benefits! I could never get them working in computers. They pay for everything.
What are we to take from this? Did something happen to the computer job? Was Daniel just confused or am I?
Best Answer
From following two sources,
Rocket Computers went bankrupt when Daniels mom arrived in California and soon found a job at restaurant.
As she shares with Daniel:
“They went bankrupt!...[But] listen to this. I walk out of Rocket with the beginning of Excedrin headache one through ten about to come on, and I’m going back to the car when this woman comes flying out of this restaurant, The Orient Express, and she’s screaming, ‘I quit! I quit!’ Right behind her is this guy and he’s yelling just as loud, ‘You can’t quit! You’re fired!’ It’s one minute to noon, people are coming in to lunch, I’m the first but only applicant — I got the job!”
The above mentioned dialogue was not in the movie but in the novelization by B.B.Heller.
You can find it on google books.
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Lucille LaRusso is the supportive yet traditional mother of Daniel LaRusso. She was a main character in the original Karate Kid trilogy and later appeared in the Cobra Kai web series. In all of the character's appearances, she was portrayed by Randee Heller.Overview: Daniel
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