Introduction by Alice Pung
1. What were Asian-Australians referred to as when the author was growing up?power points
2. How does she interpret this title?with caps lock and a -
3. What did this title actually refer to? Did the author find this demeaning? Why/why not?The author thought it was because it was because Asians had electric brain power. She wasn't quiet sure though
4. ‘All that untapped potential! All that electrifying brain power!’ What techniques are being employed by the author? How does they highlight he misunderstanding?She uses !, making it seem that she is exaggerating or speaking with enthusiasm.
5. What did the teen author take away from teen fiction? What did she feel that she needed to do? Why? What does this say is essential to fitting in to a culture?
6. Who are the authors that she turns to? Why?
7. In the third paragraph how does the author use repetition. How does it highlight the focus of this book?She uses repetition to show that school is a big time in a child's life. There first day of school, first friend, it shapes there whole life
8. What metaphor does the author use to highlight the writers and the writing style in the third paragraph?She says that the authors are the tree, comparing them to distant observers
9. Why does the author use a quote in the 4th paragraph? What does it say about her reaction to the stories in the book?The quote means that if you change the name, it would be about you because everyone experiences these things and feelings, Asian or not.
10. On page 2 the author talks about the themes that she loosely choose for the collection. What are they and why is it ironic that they show up in this book?Tom Cho, Vanessa Woods, Paul Nguyens, Chi Vu's. The main themes she uses is Aussie slang, which is ironic because she uses Australian slang when she comes from an Asian background
11. At the bottom of pg 3 on to page 4 the author says that sociologists have described Asians as the ‘model minority’. What is meant by this? What difficulties arise out of this label for young Asian-Australians? Model minority is like that because there small and different, but mostly smarter than everyone else on average because they study more and all that stereotypical stuff, that people should look up to them and model them because of it
12. What are the editor’s hopes for the collection of stories?
Pigs from Home by Hop Dac
1. How does the author start this story which is in direct contrast to the title of the story? What effect does this have on the reader and their expectations of the story? The author starts the story by stating the positives of pigs, which is in contrast because the title says go home
2. What core Vietnamese value is instilled in the author? its that any Vietnamese family is a self sustaining one
3. What is humorous about the mother’s ‘flair for natural medicine’ in regards to her personality? its humours because the mother was good with medicine and thinks that her house is very messy.
4. How does the description of the killing of pigeons continue the style utilised in the introduction of the story? Its utilized with the style of brutally killing pigeons for food.
5. What is the author’s opinion of pigs? Give two quotes to support your conclusion. That there unimportant and are only used for food
6. In the paragraph on pgs 53-54, give two examples of alliteration employed by the author. 'Blowing raspberries on babes bellies' and 'feeding frenzy'
7. On pg 54 what simile is used to describe pigs? How does this simile work for the situation it is used? a pig is like a wave, and you can't turn your back on a wave because you'll get dumped and if you turn your back on a pig it'll bite you
8. What simile does the author use to describe her mother sunning herself? How does this relate to the core focus of the story?
She suns herself by standing in the drive way and slowly rotating like a 'rotisserie chicken'. This relates to the core focus of the story which is killing animals for food.9. What does the author describe as ‘the divide between the old world and the new’? What do you think is meant by this statement? She starts to see that the way there killing and slaughtering pigs and animals like that is bad.
10. What is the author’s reaction to the slaughter of the pig at night? What statement does the author make about the neighbours which displays the way he feels about the whole experience? What is important about including this statement? She was shocked by the display of killing the pig with the blood coming out of its neck and she wandered if the neighbours had heard the commotion and the killing. She thought it was bad and wrong and that she didn't want anyone else to be involved in the murder of the pigs
11. Why don’t the parents have pigs anymore? How does this relate to the description of the burial of the last pig they owned? They stopped having pigs because there neighbour is a pig farmer and this relates to the description of the last pig dying and they buried it and stopped having pigs because they didn't want pigs dying so they could eat them
12. How would you characterise the description of the mother’s treatment of the pig’s blood? Is it appetising? It makes it seems a lot of effort for an unappealing effort
13. What is ironic about the way the author has a popular Vietnamese dish? What is it about the way the author describes the experience of having pigs that makes it ironic? Its ironic because it was a meal with beef and its the only animal they don't have on there farm.
14. How does this story relate to the title Pigs from Home?
15. Why do you think this story is in the Battlers section of the book?
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