Introduction
1. The Asian-Australians were referred to as Power Points
2. She interpreted this title by saying that this is the introduction of a story when this is actually the introduction of the whole book
3. This title actually refers to the whole book, the author finds this demanding because she is the one that has created this book and she starts it by writing her own story
4. The techniques that are used is personification, it highlights her misunderstanding by talking about the fact of an Australian socket and so saying that it does look like a face
5. The author took away from the book about the different faces. This made her think that she needed an extensive plastic surgery because since she is an Asian, she wanted to take a plastic surgery because she wants to feel fit in with the other cultures that live in Australia.
6. She then turns to different authors such as John Marsden and Robert Cormier because they wrote because of raw honesty and that the authors have a real feeling about the coming of age.
7. The author uses repetition by using the word first when talking about experiencing so many first time things.
8. The metaphor that is used in the third paragraph is that she talked about that Asian-Australians are all outsiders.
9. It is to show that if changing the title will also change the whole story but this book is made up of a bunch of short stories. It shows that her reaction to the other stories is all about the same thing.
10. It is ironic that they show up in this book is because the people who wrote the books are related (brother and sister) the book is called "Water Buffalo" by Thao Nguyen and "The Courage of Soldiers" by Pauline Nguyen.
11. It is meant that the population in Australia that are Asians have been less social with people and so this shows a bit of racism for Asians.
12. The editors hopes for the stories is that people will not have to worry that Asians are feeling left out in Australia.
Pigs From Home
1. The author started this story by talking about describing what pigs are. This effect shows that this story would be about pigs
2. The core Vietnamese value that is in the author is born in a very good and sustained family that was instilled in the author.
3. What is humorous is that what she means by natural medicines are leaves, water and other nasty botanical things.
4. The killing of pigeons is to show that they are just an ordinary family killing things for food.
5. The authors opinion of pigs is that she really hates them because they smell, push animals about and are greedy.
6. One example on pg 53: Long line
One example on pg 54: Thankless task
7. The simile is minefield or droppings as if talking about the pigs leaving a lot of mess behind.
8. The simile used was called rotisserie chicken. It relates to the focus of the story because that is what pigs normally do.
9. It is described as basically saying that the author saw about what happens and the change between the old life and to new. It is to show that the author is starting to learn about different things.
10. The author's reaction to the pig slaughter is very ghastly and that he was scared of it. The author wrote how the neighbors thought that if they heard the commotion there. This is very important because it is to show that of what other people think of the family. Especially when they kill poor animals.
11. The parents do not have pigs anymore because a friend from the North has a pig farm and when the farmer visits, he gives pork to them. It relates to the burial because after that, they don't buy pigs anymore.
12. The description of the mom's treatment would be very disgusting and then once added to congee or noodle soup, it does not sound appetizing at all.
13. The irony is that the Vietnamese dish is mad from pigs and that his family owned pigs. He describes it by saying that it reminded him of home.
14. This story relates to the title pigs from home because this story is about pigs and at the end of the story, the author said that the dishes he ate reminded him of home.
15. This story is in the battlers section because it is talks about a lot of murder and how Asians can handle this.
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