Sunday, October 16, 2011

Conversations with my Parents by Oanh Thi Tran



1. What is ironic about the way the author and the father become close? What has to happen to the father? They become close when he is sick in hospital this is ironic as when the father is sick and close to death is when the author started to connect with them.
2. How would you characterise the conversation that the author has with her parents?  It was a pathetic example of a conversation as nobody would work out much or connect with each other but if it was longer there would be a better chance of everyone learning.
3. What is it that worries the author most about these conversations? She has never told her parents that she loved them.
4. There is a gap between the author’s need to express feelings common in western countries and her family’s lack of desire to express their feelings verbally. How does the family still express their feelings for their child, just not verbally?  They don’t really express their concern for her as they are really calling her child when this is not her name and it could be interpititted and simplifying her as with making her less important.

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