experiences and the affiliations they have forged within their own world. Experiences and relationships fabricate one’s personality and identity including their choice to belong‚ or not to belong. William Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Anh Do’s The Happiest Refugee delve into how belonging through relationships and the development of individual autonomy is influenced by personal‚ cultural‚ and social contexts‚ as the characters strive to identify what constitutes their own personality and sense of belonging
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Anh’s parent’s family‚ their struggles and background. “That’s not the way to treat a young lady.” (Anh’s father said) pg.3 “On their third meeting he buys her a lemonade and makes a young guy in the carriage stand up so that she can sit down.” (Father’s actions) pg.3 “This particular girl had been enrolled in a convent until earlier that year. She was supposed to be a nun by now‚ but the communists had closed down all the catholic churches and convents.” ( Anh on his mother)
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The “Happiest Refugee” is the official autobiography of the Australian comedian Anh Do. The book is based around his life story starting in Vietnam and then becoming a fascinating story about his triumphs and darkest hours. Anh and his family went through many challenges as depicted in his text and these included the struggles Ahn faced at St Aloysius School‚ thereby depicting his social context. Ahn Do’s journey over to Australia was also conveyed through the use of descriptive and emotive language
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An analysis of The Happiest Refugee by Ahn Do Texts often aim at exploring social issues‚ and encourage readers to respond to them in different ways by positioning them to agree with the ideas of the text. The biographical text ’The Happiest Refugee ’ written by the narrator of the text‚ Ahn Do‚ invites readers to observe events‚ participate emotionally‚ understand his experiences and to respond to the characters. Ahn Do uses written techniques and conventions (including use of language) to engage
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occurs when a person is forced to leave their home and subsequently lose their connections with where they belong‚ or their place. War‚ persecution‚ natural disasters or neglect are some of the reasons that someone might become displaced. In The Happiest Refugee‚ the author‚ Anh Do‚ expresses his experiences with displacement after his family flees Vietnam in search of refuge in Australia. Anh Do uses a lot of impersonal language to recall the dehumanising nature of the boat his family escaped Vietnam
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THE HAPPIEST REFUGEE Expository texts‚ by definition‚ analyse and explain information to enlighten or educate its readers. This type of text often provides readers with deeper insights about a subject. In The Happiest Refugee written by Anh Do‚ his experiences are used to show the struggles to live a new life in a foreign country. With the conventions such as first-person perspective‚ colloquial language and anecdotal evidence‚ Do ’s expository text positions readers to be inspired and amused. At
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Anh Do’s story is a timely reminder of the plight of refugee in our country. Discuss the Happiest Refugee in the light of Do’s universal message about the suffering of human beings during times of war and the struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do which was first published on the 1st of August in 2010. It is regarded as one of the most influential and well-received novels in the world of literature for its great insight on the life
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Everyday I wake up feeling grumpy . It ’s a brand new day ‚ but I know nothing new will happen . It ’s the same old school-house routine and I ’ve grown tired of it . School can be really boring sometimes . Or maybe most of the time . One day ‚ in one of our group works in school ‚ an outreach program actually ‚ we were asked to visit a home for street children . The group ’s task was to conduct some sort of a peer tutorial session with the street children in subjects like math and science
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types of journeys can be seen clearly in the three texts studied this year: The Happiest Refugee extract‚ written by Anh Doh in 2010‚ The Silver Donkey novel by Sonya Hartnett in 2004 and the film Bend It Like Beckham directed by Gurinder Chadha in 2002. The techniques that the composer uses to express the journeys are personification‚ onomatopoeia‚ repetition‚ similes‚ metaphors‚ music and acting skills. In The Happiest Refuge‚ there are both physical and emotional journeys. The extract is about
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The Philippines ranks 67th among the 142 countries in the world with the happiest citizenry. Norway is No. 1 and the United States ranks 12th. In Southeast Asia‚ Singapore ranks 19th; Taiwan‚ 20th; Vietnam‚ 53rd‚ Thailand‚ 56th; Indonesia‚ 63rd. How ironic that Vietnam‚ which suffered decades of civil war and whose economy is practically just starting to grow‚ beat the Philippines by 14 points. * * * The criteria for the citizenry’s happiness index are economy‚ entrepreneurship‚ governance
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