English Essay - Anh Do
The happiest refugee is a Memoir with the extraordinary story of how made it from Vietnam to Australia, Survived and became one of Australia’s best loved comedians. Throughout the book And meets Lots of People Some kind and willing to help and some mean and angry. In the book he meets Pirates, Nuns and a kind friend who helps him in every way possible.
On Anh’s journey with his family to australia they meet up with a bunch of pirates who took pretty much everything that had including all their gold and valuable items they had collected to sell in australia. It says page 20 “Angrily Striking random faces to assert their intent, yanking off bracelets and rings from trembling hands”, This is saying that they took all their values and even though they were hidden in peoples mouths. The technique in this quote is listing and it helps to tell the reader how angry and mean the pirates were. It is telling the reader that they did all these mean things and Anh’s family must have been really frightened by the pirates. The …show more content…
On page 83 it says “When it was english for example, he would lend me his books for my period and I would return them to him in time for his class” This quote is saying that Anh had a kind friend who lent him his books for class but because he didn’t want to tell the teacher that his parents couldn’t afford his school books then every class he bought his friends book then just sat there and pretended to write in the book, but on the days when his friend was away then he just got busted and the teachers were always wondering why such a good kid would deliberately not bring his books. He had his friend Phil for most of school that would lend him his books for the classes that anh went to but the teachers were always wondering why such a good kid broke the rules on
The happiest refugee is a Memoir with the extraordinary story of how made it from Vietnam to Australia, Survived and became one of Australia’s best loved comedians. Throughout the book And meets Lots of People Some kind and willing to help and some mean and angry. In the book he meets Pirates, Nuns and a kind friend who helps him in every way possible.
On Anh’s journey with his family to australia they meet up with a bunch of pirates who took pretty much everything that had including all their gold and valuable items they had collected to sell in australia. It says page 20 “Angrily Striking random faces to assert their intent, yanking off bracelets and rings from trembling hands”, This is saying that they took all their values and even though they were hidden in peoples mouths. The technique in this quote is listing and it helps to tell the reader how angry and mean the pirates were. It is telling the reader that they did all these mean things and Anh’s family must have been really frightened by the pirates. The …show more content…
On page 83 it says “When it was english for example, he would lend me his books for my period and I would return them to him in time for his class” This quote is saying that Anh had a kind friend who lent him his books for class but because he didn’t want to tell the teacher that his parents couldn’t afford his school books then every class he bought his friends book then just sat there and pretended to write in the book, but on the days when his friend was away then he just got busted and the teachers were always wondering why such a good kid would deliberately not bring his books. He had his friend Phil for most of school that would lend him his books for the classes that anh went to but the teachers were always wondering why such a good kid broke the rules on