My sweet padlet by Nasiba Norova

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:15:44 UTC

Learning English

Language Barrier: not being able to speak French

2026-02-05 00:16:20 UTC

My First Passport

2026-02-05 00:16:36 UTC

He couldn't understand French when he first started school. His mother tried to teach him but he felt he didn't understand and was an outsider looking in.

Orhan Pamuk

2026-02-05 00:16:45 UTC

Listening to teacher to try and learn French.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:16:59 UTC

Learning about social hierarchy from the viewpoint of New China.

Group 2

2026-02-05 00:17:38 UTC

Expressing the challenges between living in two different worlds at home and at school.

Also, deciding whether to express emotion on her paper or follow template with the information given as it would be in agreement with the readers.

Group 1- Felicia

2026-02-05 00:17:42 UTC

Being able to read and speak in French was a challenge for Orhan and his brother at school, as well as feeling welcomed/like they belonged during recess.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:17:46 UTC

Reading classical Western books such as Jane Austen.

My First Passport

2026-02-05 00:18:11 UTC

Foreign country where everything from the beggars to the traffic to the furniture were different from what he was used to.

Orhan Pamuk

2026-02-05 00:18:25 UTC

His Mother attempted to teach him and his brother French at home.

Further into the story we also find out that he uses reading and writing as an escape/way to barricade himself.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:18:33 UTC

"It was only after my homeroom teacher had "sanctified" English that I began to connect with English with my education."(438)

Orphan Pamuk

2026-02-05 00:19:00 UTC

He had to accept the fact that the things they were using would never belong to them and that the land they were on would never belong to them either.

My first passport

2026-02-05 00:19:08 UTC

Not able to feel like he belonged in the coutry. He was always going to feel like an outsider.

My First Passport

2026-02-05 00:19:21 UTC

His parents leaving without him, first his father "under mysterious circumstances", and then his mother. Difficulty with the language and feeling like this new country was his home.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:19:30 UTC

Unable to express her emotions when writing, accepting to follow the society standard norms just to feel belonged.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:19:45 UTC

Lu explains that school taught her to read and write in a very strict way. Writing had to follow with political rules and accepted ideas. She learned to repeat what teachers expected rather than say her real feelings.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:20:01 UTC

Shanghai Dialect - Servants

Orphan Pamuk

2026-02-05 00:20:10 UTC

The mother who tried to teach them French

My First Passport

2026-02-05 00:20:11 UTC

His brother, teacher, and mother.

min Zhan lu

2026-02-05 00:20:12 UTC

she challenged herself that is only one way of learning she used her Chinese way of thinking, her English for academia and her own voice to understand her own feelings.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:20:17 UTC

Standard Chinese - Teachers

Group 2

2026-02-05 00:20:22 UTC

Realizing that this was a hard transition and having to go back to step one with going home because you couldn’t connect!

Orhan Pamuk

2026-02-05 00:20:38 UTC

His parents sent him and his brother back to Istanbul.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:20:52 UTC

Language and writing, which the author loved when she was younger, became sensitive and emotionally charged due to the expectations of each cultural context she was raised with.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:21:05 UTC

studying Chinese history

Reading and Speaking Chinese

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:21:20 UTC

Home was different. Her parents advised she should read more and think more freely. So she felt like she had two voices one for school and one for home. And that was confusing.

Group 1- Felicia

2026-02-05 00:21:41 UTC

The passport reduced his identity to observable traits, some of which were inaccurate. This showed how official documentation overwrote his personal truth he saw and felt about himself.

min zhan lu

2026-02-05 00:21:41 UTC

she used narrative as she explains her own personal life.

Orhan Pamuk

2026-02-05 00:21:59 UTC

He learns that there documents doesn't define who they are

2026-02-05 00:22:07 UTC

His father disappeared to Paris Orhan Pamuk reflects on his childhood experiences in Paris.

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The plane landing and realizing it is just another country, not an imaginary place.

When he went back to Istanbul.

When he applied for a second passport after becoming an author.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:23:05 UTC

Her writing, that she was once afraid to express, became what helped her process her experiences and become an author while creating new pathways for her daughter.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:23:24 UTC

Her biggest struggle was fear. She was scared of being wrong and started her own thoughts. Writing stopped feeling natural and started feeling scary.

My First Passport

2026-02-05 00:23:42 UTC

Books, passport

Orhan Pamuk

2026-02-05 00:24:03 UTC

It took him being able to go and see his readers in Germany to leave Turkey again. Where he came to realize the identity crisis that can be attached to a passport.

Group 1

2026-02-05 00:24:08 UTC

struggling with a new language

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:24:21 UTC

Her parents, classmates, teachers and Western / New China society.

Min zhan lu

2026-02-05 00:24:22 UTC

She learned to be quiet so that she can be safe when in school or outside especially when speaking in english.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:24:23 UTC

The turning point was when Lu realized that struggling with different voices is normal. That struggle actually helped her grow as a writer instead of holding her back.

Group 1- Felicia

2026-02-05 00:24:31 UTC

The main challenge Orhan faced was feeling like he belonged. Mainly, how to belong when language, living and identity do add up.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:25:13 UTC

Her teachers, the school system, and her parents all shaped how she learned to read and write. Even though they pushed her in different ways, they all influenced her literacy.

Min Zhan Lu

2026-02-05 00:25:14 UTC

Book Reports, epic story telling.

Group 2

2026-02-05 00:25:51 UTC

Passport and stories

group 1- felicia

2026-02-05 00:26:57 UTC

being taken out of school and sent to live back with his grandmother because he feels like he failed to intergrate properly in school by not being able to pick up on French.

Group 2

2026-02-05 00:27:11 UTC

Reading and writing in a new language

Group 1- Felicia

2026-02-05 00:27:52 UTC

His dad, brother and his peers