1. Belonging and Connections
... the description of the physical differences which they share, through hyperbole juxtaposing her parents as the "whitest white people in the world" to herself as a "person of color." After breaking the fourth wall however, she states that "I want you to know that while I don't resemble my parents, somehow we just naturally look like a family." This ... the way he is considered an 'outsider'. This is reinforced by the oxymoron "deafening silence", presenting the reader with the way in which his Asian heritage poses a barrier to his ability to belong. Do proceeds however, to depict th...
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- Grade Level: Graduate