Are You Different by Mia Francis

Dermot Growing Up Asian In Australia Comment

In Are You Different by Mia Francis we have the theme of adoption, connection, culture, racism and freedom. Narrated in the first person by Francis herself the reader realizes from the beginning of the story that Francis may be exploring the theme of adoption. Francis adopts Ricky from an orphanage in Manila. It is clear […]

Growing Up Asian In Australia

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

Dermot Everything That Rises Must Converge Comment

In the Flannery O’Connor short story, Everything That Rises Must Converge, we have the theme of identity, appearance, connection, isolation and racism. Set in the early 1960s the story is narrated in the third person and begins with the main protagonist Julian, waiting for his mother, Mrs Chestny, to get ready for her weight class […]

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Down at the Dinghy by J.D. Salinger

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In Down at the Dinghy by J.D. Salinger we have the theme of acceptance, innocence, sensitivity, escape, connection and racism (or anti-Semitism). Taken from his Nine Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and from the beginning of the story it becomes clear to the reader that Salinger […]

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