1. What is ironic about the way the author and the father become close? What has to happen to the father? What was ironic about the way the author became close was the author didn't talk to father for a long time becuase what father thought about the Author's behavior. So when Father became sick the Author would spend long hours at the hospital be his side to prove what a dutiful person she was.
2. How would you characterise the conversation that the author has with her parents? I would characterize the conversation as lacking in emotion. I feel the author doesn't really have a strong connection with her family.
3. What is it that worries the author most about these conversations? What worries the author is because she is so far away from her family she feels that she should still keep a strong connection with them. But becuase the conversations are so short and lacking of emotion she feels worried about they relationship between herself and her family.
4. There is a gap between the author’s need to express feelings common in western countries and her family’s lack of desire to express their feelings verbally. How does the family still express their feelings for their child, just not verbally? It is obvious the family don't have the ability to communicate their feeling about their child being away from home but we still do get evidence of the feeling expressed by the family. When Mother talks about cooking the dishes crab and banh xeo the mother remembers that these two dishes were her favorites and she trying to communicate through previous happiness of the Authors life with the family.
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