The Happiest Regugee - Themes
Essay by JadeVorenberg • September 9, 2015 • Essay • 250 Words (1 Pages) • 1,079 Views
Themes | Expository Techniques | Other Language |
Hope | Language | Xenophobia - Ignorant & poorly educated people who dislike people outside their social circles. |
Love | Humour - Self Depreciating | Conversational Style |
Family | Anecdotes - Detail, Personal, Emotional | 1st Person P.O.V |
Tragedy | Honesty - Genuine, Open | Informal |
Racism | Flashbacks - structure jumps around & feels like a story telling session rather than a historical recount of Anh’s life. | Tone - Warm, intimate, open |
Acceptance | Symbolism - Do uses symbolism to explore/highlight the flight of refugees. | Reflective without being nostalgic |
Strength | ||
Courage | ||
Gratitude | ||
Growth | ||
Resilience |
Discuss how Anh Do uses expository techniques to explore the economic divide between refugee’s & middle class Australians.
T - Anh do uses expository techniques to explore the economic divide between refugee’s and middle class Australians.
E - Anh used symbolism to show us the economic divide between refugee’s and middle class Australians on page 186 to page 188.
X - “The best way to describe my teammates was by their shoes: three Reebok Pumps, four Air Jordans, and a Nike Max Lite. My shoes were called ‘Kind Lion’ — someone at the Chinese factory must have stuffed up the translation.”
E - Anh is using the shoes to describe the economic divide between refugee’s and middle class Australians, the Reebok Pumps, Air Jordans and Nike shoes are representing the middle class Australians where as the Kind Lion shoes are representing the refugee’s. The difference between the two shoes/people aren’t that different, just the fact that they have different brand names on them like refugee and middle class.
T - Through the use of symbolism Anh Do was able to show the economic divide between refugee’s and middle class Australians.
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