Essay about Maths: Writing and Young Vietnamese Writer

Submitted By emilyarif
Words: 518
Pages: 3
Open Document
Brief summary of the seven stories:

Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice: This first story is a view into the life a young Vietnamese writer in Iowa City, who is up against a deadline in his writers workshop. He scoffs at the idea of stooping to writing an “ethnic” story, but with his father’s visit, he decides to write the story of his father’s experiences in My Lai, South Vietnam army, and the tortures of a “reeducation” camp. Through the interviewing of his father, the relationship with whom has always been strained and somewhat distant, possibly even abusive, both come to understand one another better.

Cartagena: Nam’s writing style in this short story is reminiscent of Cormac McCarney’s. The lack of quotation marks and the quick changes of settings are disorienting, adding the sense of surrealism in the life of Ron, the 14 year old hit man in Medellin, Colombia.

Meeting Elise is the story of a man with cancer, still heartbroken over the loss of his lover 30 years his junior, who is about to meet his only child, whom he hasn’t seen since she was a baby when the witch, his ex-wife, “blew the county, dangling [their] daughter from her broom…”

Halflead Bay, Jamie has a turn of luck and goes from a loser to school hero after scoring the winning goal. Because of it he catches the eye of Alison, and because of that he’s in the cross-hairs of Alison’s psychotic boyfriend. Jamie must decide whether he will remain the coward he had been or will he fight.

Hiroshima, written in the stream of consciousness of nine-year-old Mayako, is glimpse into the mindset and life of the Japanese pre-atom bomb.

Tehran Calling is the story of a Sarah Middleton, who goes to Iran to visit her best friend, who’s involved in a subversive group, and to escape the heartbreak of a love lost.
Show More

Related Documents: Essay about Maths: Writing and Young Vietnamese Writer

Culminating Project for RDG 543 Essay

Cumulating Project For RDG 543 PART ONE: PHYSICAL CLASSROOM SETTING 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 19 10 20 9 21 8 22 7 23 6 24 5 25 4 26 3 27 2 28 1 29 30 Door Classroom dimensions: approximately 27’ by 42’ Classroom consists of 30 desktop PC’s for individual student use. These PC’s are situated on a shelf that is built into the wall and not able to be moved. The PC’s are hard wired into the network for internet connections. PC’s…

Words 8990 - Pages 36

Gp Essay Mainpoints

GP NOTES 2010 (ESSAY) Content Page 1. Media a. New vs. Traditional b. New: narcissistic? c. Government Censorship d. Profit-driven Media e. Advertising f. Private life of public figures g. Celebrity as a role model h. Blame media for our problems i. Power + Responsibility of Media j. Media ethics k. New Media and Democracy 2. Science/Tech a. Science and Ethics b. Government and scientist role in science c. Rely too much on technology? d. Nuclear technology…

Words 24667 - Pages 99

Essay on preschool

staff members of WestEd are gratefully acknowledged for their contributions: Peter Mangione, Charlotte Tilson, and Cathy Tsao. Lead Researchers Special thanks are extended to the lead researchers for their expertise and contributions as lead writers. Visual and Performing Arts James Catterall, University of California, Los Angeles Physical Development Abbey Alkon, University of California, San Francisco Victoria Leonard, University of California, San Francisco Health Abbey Alkon…

Words 46134 - Pages 185