Conversations with my Parents by Oanh Thi Tran

Conversations with my Parents by Oanh Thi Tran

1. What is ironic about the way the author and the father become close? What has to happen to the father? It is ironic that the author becomes closer to her father because he went to the hospital they didn't talk and after he went to the hospital and he went to see her dad they started talking. this is ironic because usually father and daughter talk to each other but this time the author doesn't talk till her dad until he is in hospital

2. How would you characterise the conversation that the author has with her parents? I believe that the way that the family talks to each other is like they are all stranger and all their conversations are very short if we didn't know they were family we could even think they have not much to do with each other

3. What is it that worries the author most about these conversations? The author is worried about that in all of their convosations she never tells them that she loves them.

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? The family expresses their feelings for their daughter by telling her stories and remembering old memories. they call her in and tell her that they want her to be save and want her to be happy and talk about their culture.