I have chosen to explore the theme ‘ conflict between cultures and how it does or doesn’t get resolved’. This theme is evident in the short stories, Awful Australia By Anna Walwicz, Only Ten by Allan Baillie, Ambushed by Tim O’Brien and the short film Coffee and Allah by Sima Urale.
In the short story “Awful Australia” by Anna Walwicz, the young person is ‘hating’ on Australia. She doesn’t like anything about Australia. She is venting her frustration, because she has come from a wealthy country but she has to flee because of war. The connections ‘conflict between cultures and how it does or doesn’t get resolved’ is shown in Awful Australia because she is hating on Australia just because she comes from a wealthy country and she has had to flee her country because of war and I don’t think she is quite happy about that so she is hating on every single thing about Australia. When the writer uses the phrase “ You try to be …show more content…
So every Morning she would go to the store to buy some Ethiopian coffee and every morning this man would ask her if she wanted coffee but she would turn him down until one morning she sat at the table and she made her a coffee with allah spelt in it. The connections ‘conflict between cultures and how it does or doesn’t get resolved’ is shown in Coffee and Allah is that her being a muslim everyone doesn't like her and just stares at her because of her race. In this short film the director uses the scene when she is at a garage sale looking at a badminton racket and shuttlecock and the indian woman told her to take it, this shows the viewer that this indian woman is scared of this muslim woman and the conflict between their cultures has not been resolved and this indian woman seems like she hates this muslim
In the short story “Awful Australia” by Anna Walwicz, the young person is ‘hating’ on Australia. She doesn’t like anything about Australia. She is venting her frustration, because she has come from a wealthy country but she has to flee because of war. The connections ‘conflict between cultures and how it does or doesn’t get resolved’ is shown in Awful Australia because she is hating on Australia just because she comes from a wealthy country and she has had to flee her country because of war and I don’t think she is quite happy about that so she is hating on every single thing about Australia. When the writer uses the phrase “ You try to be …show more content…
So every Morning she would go to the store to buy some Ethiopian coffee and every morning this man would ask her if she wanted coffee but she would turn him down until one morning she sat at the table and she made her a coffee with allah spelt in it. The connections ‘conflict between cultures and how it does or doesn’t get resolved’ is shown in Coffee and Allah is that her being a muslim everyone doesn't like her and just stares at her because of her race. In this short film the director uses the scene when she is at a garage sale looking at a badminton racket and shuttlecock and the indian woman told her to take it, this shows the viewer that this indian woman is scared of this muslim woman and the conflict between their cultures has not been resolved and this indian woman seems like she hates this muslim