Introduction

1) Power-Points
2) She interprets this title because she thinks of her kind as smart and dweeby in a dynamic micro-soft-magnate sort of way
3) This title actually refers to Asians growing up in Australia, the author does not find this demeaning because she is Asian
4) Repetition because it is really positive and it is ironic because it is really discriminative
5) She felt that she wanted to be pretty like the girls in the teen fiction books, which gave her the idea of having plastic surgery. This is said to be essential to fitting into a culture because of your looks and personality which chooses your way of life in her view.
6) She turns to authors such as John Marsden and Robert Cormier instead because they right with raw honesty and real feelings about coming of age.
7) She uses "first" as her repetition representing all the first things that you did when you were growing up. This highlights the focus of the book because the title is "Growing up Asian in Australia".
8) The author uses the metaphor 'they are not distant observers, plucking the most garish fruit from the lowest-hanging branches of an exotic cultural tree. These writers are the tree, and they write from its roots'.
9) The author uses the quote 'Change only the name and this story is about you'. This shows that the author can relate to many of the things which the other authors have also had to deal with throughout their childhood. 
10) The battler, the legend and the pioneer are the themes used. it is ironic that she uses these terms because they are representing  Australian  character traits, whereas in non Australian countries these traits are portrayed as for battle and bad.
11) By saying 'model minority' the author is proposing that all Asians follow the same stereotype of working hard, education, money, career and are models to how to work hard but fit into the minority of Australia as well as fitting in the background. This can put pressure on young Asian-Australians because it pressures them to be stereotypical and fit the criteria of working hard and drifting into the background.
12) The author hopes that the readers will find out what it is like growing up Asian in Australia and the perspective they had on life


Linear plot: unbroken time
Non-linear plot: broken time
Vingnet: "short" story 


Pigs from home


1) The author starts the story with  strong statement which brings interest to the reader
2) The author thinks that any Vietnamese culture is a sustained one 
3) It is humorous because the mother has a flair for natural medicine when she considers herself unhealthy 
4) It continues the style in which the Vietnamese people lived in by slaughtering animals 
5)  The author dislikes the pigs very much and says that 'no pig is a friend of mine'
6) 'blowing raspberries on the bellies of babies' and 'feeding frenzy'
7)  A pig is like an ocean is the simile used and it works because you can't turn you back on the ocean or you will get dumped by the wave and can't turn your back on a pig because it will bite you.