The Happiest Refugee: Anh Do

In Anh Do’s heartwarming and inspiring memoir The Happiest Refugee, the author elicits the prosperous adventure of a migrant family that come across various personal and memorable experiences. The central theme of a migrant family is established through their successful journey to Australia. Anh Do portrays this theme through the life lessons he learns from his parents, furthermore he is given a variety of opportunities where he could earn money and contribute to the family’s income. His academic endeavors at school is depicted through his lucrative career as a comedian and an university student.

The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do, is a memoir that makes people change their minds about asylum seekers. He appealed to readers

As the author, Anh 's most famous works are "the happiest refugees". This book tells how Anhe and his family fled to Australia as refugees. While it involves a variety of negative themes such as war, fled, pirate and racism, it inspires readers and emits their hopes. "This book is" the most surprising and inspiring reading of years "(Anhdo.com.au 2017), Russell Crowe, the book" laughter and tears ". This book has received various awards from Anh, including the 2011 Annual Yearbook 2011, the Independent Yearbook 2011 and the 2011 Nielsen BookData Book (ABA) Choice Award.

The text chosen for this unit id the book Refuge by prominent Australian writer Jackie French (2013). Refuge follows the story of Faris, a young refugee feeling from his homeland with his grandmother to Australia. On the dangerous boat journey from Indonesia to Australia, they encounter a terrible storm where Faris falls unconscious and wakes up living his dream life in Australia. However, he has no recollection of how he got there. Whilst on the beach, he meets a strange group of children all from different times and places. Faris soon discovers that each child is like him, a migrant who travelled to Australia searching for a better place. Each child is living in their own ‘dream’ Australia and the beach provides a sort of ‘refuge’ from reality for them. Eventually, Faris has to make the decision to either continue living in this dream land or face his reality. This book is interesting as unlike other refugee texts, this novel serves to tell the multicultural history of Australian immigration. French relays the more than 60 000 year old history of people travelling to Australia by boat and makes the statement that all immigrants and refugees need to be treated with empathy and understanding.

The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do which was first published on the 1st of August in 2010. It is regarded as one of the most influential and well-received novels in the world of literature for its great insight on the life of refugees. The book provides a universal message to its readers about the suffering of human beings during wars and their struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is about Anh Do and his family’s journey from

Anh's success is ultimately defined by his parent's teachings. In Anh Do's memoir, “The Happiest Refugee”, his accomplishments are explored through his relationship with his family and his career as an established comedian. After fleeing the torn society of Vietnam, the Do family resettle in Australia and begin their new life with more opportunities and chances for success. Anh's parents are accountable for part of his success. Although Anh seems to be the most accomplished in his family, none of his accomplishments and personal traits would have been obtained if it was not for his parents. Anh succeeds throughout his life because of his parents. Anh's resilience is a positive reflection of his parent's guidance. His mother sacrificed a

Millions of people around the world have no choice but to flee their homeland to escape war, genocide, torture and persecution (Amnesty international, 2014). In the story ‘The Happiest Refugee’ written by Anh Do the famous Australian comedian talks about his family’s life as a refugee and the struggles they faced beginning their life in Australia. The components that will be looked at include: The effects of poverty on his family, the struggle of being a refugee and how family stick together.

Similarily examined in GBTWYCF, the participant’s genuine “refugee experience” allows them to identify social understanding about the fact of other people’s lifestyles and how they withstand the most severe of individual adversities. An extensive structure taken of Raye weeping followed by a remote taken of the moon enhances her concern towards Maisara “I’ve had issues holding child birth through…I do know where she’s arriving from…” examines how by your same circumstances as others, people are able to empathise.

In the Dramatic autobiography the Happiest Refugee, book the author Anh Do uses a wide range of Scenes to take audience attention throughout the story with different sort of language effects. A specific form of exploring scenes to audiences is the storytelling, Anh utilises this technique in the book and explores his life experiences. The purpose of the storytelling is to increase the motivation or mental stimulation of reader through entertainment. To do this use range of features including, Narrative voice, setting, sentence structures, Paragraph structures, Figurative language, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia and Characterisation. The two scenes that exemplify all these features are the serious scene when Anh’s family face a massive loss from the farm interest rates and the other scène is when Anh’s mother gets a “biggest” Pig they could find and brought it on Anh and Suzie’s engagement to show how wealthy they are, that they can take care of their daughter and keep her happy.

The idea of displacement in The Happiest Refugee is demonstrated and explored through the thorough use of techniques such as;

This article was not just written for those who agree that Australians should accept refugees but also those who do not. It was written so that the people who disagree with the acceptance of refugees could get an idea of the struggles that millions of people go through. It was written to provide information as to why we don’t accept refugees, but also why we should. This article is not intended for a particular age, if you are able to read and understand politics then it is suitable for you. It wasn’t a particular age i was catering for but a certain audience, mainly those who do not agree with the acceptance of refugees. I wrote to my audience by using examples of well known, respected and loved refugees such as Anh Do and Munjed Al Muderis. 
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This universal refugee experience is what every refugee goes though all around the world, they many have similar problems that they have to go thought this is why is the universal experience Ha has to deal with people at her new school and town that don't like her because of her ways and where she comes from Ha is a loving girl that just wants to get good grades and wants her father to come home, after she moves she is less adventurous and has given up on her dad.

Be quiet.” Alem said in a small voice in anger. “Okay. Alem. Be alone today. It seems like you are in bad mood.” Robert said. Alem said: “Thank you, Robert.” Alem said nothing in his class. He even said while he is in class. However, in humanity’s homework, there was writing about world’s refugee. And give his own opinion on this. So, he decided to write this based on his own experience. He was one of the refugees, and actually he is still a refugee. He thought about what is the problem that world’s refugee’s problem. He tried to think his experience in he was in refugee’s home. He thought all world’s refugees are having many problems, such as they don’t have a house, they don’t have the place to rest like shelter. Some refugees have to be separated from their family. In his dream, he lost all his parents while he is in Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald’s house. He knows the sadness that a person loses one’s family. And he wrote about that. He thought he would like to help other refugees. He knows the important thing to refugee. That is the thing that refugees want. Refugees don’t want a luxury house, nice food, nice clothes. Refugee wants many things, but the most important thing is friend.

To do so accurately, UNHCR reporters interview an eight-year-old Syrian refugee named Aya and her father. Aya is very optimistic and bright. She loves to learn and seems to have a lot of friends. She lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon, sharing a tent with her six siblings. While she still gets a limited amount of education from her father and her siblings, she has not been to school in two years and it is unlikely to go back soon. Instead, she works around the house, helps her disabled sister, and plays with the other children in the camp. Most of the children in this camp have seen war and fled into other countries to escape it. Many of them will not get a proper education, and will have to work from a young age or marry

Ha and refugee families all over the world are trying to find a new home which is struggling because they remember their old home and a new home is different to them. Finding a new home is a struggle for refugees, for example “ Even at our poorest we always had beautiful furniture and matching dishes.” (Lai 126) They are use to the furniture at their old homes also same matching dishes and this is a big change for them. Refugees half to go through a lot to find a new home, for example “ All four teenagers arrived in the U.S four months ago, after spending year in a refugee camp in Croatia.” (Brice) Refugees half to stay in refugee camps usual before they can find their new home and it feels different than at home. Refugees also aren’t use to the government in their new home, for instance “Mother could not believe his generosity until Brother Quang says the American government gives sponsors money.” (Lai 124) Ha’s mother and refugees are surprised that the U.S government gives people (sponsors) money, to help refugees live in a home so they can get started with their new lives but most refugees aren’t use to that. Ha and refugees all over the world trying to find a new home. Ha and refugee families all over the world are trying to find a new home which is struggling because they remember their old home and a new home and country is different to