Indledning
How would you feel if you had fled your homeland to a completely different country to create a new family with a completely different culture, and thus integrate yourself into society with other values?
and could put your past behind you and start a new one? Mr. Thieu emigrated from Vietnam to the United States and has a good acquaintance with both countries.
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Uddrag
The short story is written from Ted's point of view because we also hear about his thoughts "Oh, no," my son said with real force, and for a second I thought he had read my mind and shared my feeling, but I looked at him and he was pointing at the toes of his white sneakers. "
My Reeboks are ruined!" he cried, and on the toe of each sneaker was a smudge of grass. The story told Teds from perspective.
The title "crickets" is the whole twist in the story it helps to give us an idea of the action in the story and what these crickets mean to our protagonist. It makes us wonder about the title.
The beginning tells Thieu his journey to America and how his life has become. This is seen when he tells of Saigon who fell "...
I removed my uniform and put on civilian clothes again, and I threw rocks at the thought of the north as they rolled through the streets" P1, L15-17.
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