Five Ways to Disappoint Your Vietnamese Mother PDF

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Five Ways to Disappoint Your Vietnamese Mother By Diana Nguyen Author’s Style: ● Writes in steps ● Dialogue, shows people’s accents ● Sarcastic tone

TASK 1: Write three to five dot points for each ‘step’, that summarise the idea or message the author is trying to convey. Step 1 has been started as an example/guide. 1. Step One: Become an Actor ● Diana’s mum encouraged her musical/artistic ability as a child and not only did she love it, but she also seemed to have talent. ● Her mum seemed to have a future career in mind for her daughter regardless of what her daughter wanted. ● She made her do piano lessons at a young age 2. Step Two: Work Four Jobs – But What Career? ● She worked at Coles and dealt with customers who criticised and assumed her ethnicity. ● They were rude to her and stated that ‘All Asians are the same’. ● She described herself as having a ‘Bert Newton face with Bart Simpson skin; I had Chinese eyes and huge black hair’. Pg. 289 3. Step Three: Become a Viet-School Drop-Out ● When she was in Year 7, her mother forced her to go to Viet School but she didn’t like it. ● Diana got bullied because she was in Year 7 student in a Year 1 class. ● Her lack of interest in learning her language created a language barrier between her and her mother 4. Step Four: The Boyfriend ● Diana got a Chinese boyfriend but her mother disapproved and went on with the topic of how she could have dated anyone but a Chinese boy. ● Number 1 rule in the book; No boyfriend until university. ● ‘You will concentrate on your studies and your virginity will be intact.’ Pg. 240 5. Step Five: Get Kicked Out of the Cuckoo Nest ● When Diana’s mum kicked her out, she finally found her own freedom ● Her mother threatened to kick her out but never acted on it. ● She was the first and only Asian girl in her group of friends to be kicked out of home.

TASK 2: Creative task option 1 Select one of the steps from the story and imagine that you are Diane in that period of her life. Write a diary entry of approximately 150 words exploring what you think her inner thoughts and feelings would be at the time. Aim to emulate the language and style that she uses in her writing. My mother always wanted me to attend Vietnamese school. In year 7, I was in a year 1 class where I got bullied a lot because I didn’t know how to speak my own language nor wanted to learn it but I was forced here because of it. To my mum, I was just a disappointment when I quitted. I never really fulfilled her wants and kind of just out of her way because doing Vietnamese school didn’t make me happy at all. I was hurt. I was disappointed in myself that my own mum would pressure me to do something that I don’t like and it just really showed how rude I am towards my mum. Like, imagine being Vietnamese and not being able to speak your own language, being a disappointment to your Vietnamese mum and all the other kids beating you to it even when they’re at a young age. That’s a horrible feeling and I was truly so hurt that I couldn’t impress my mum nor myself. Have you included: ● Sarcastic tone? ● Dialogue? ● A name for your step/journal entry? Creative task option 2 Choose a character that you (or a fictional character) has disappointed and write the step by step reasons for the disappointment, using subheadings for each step....