https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e by Mitchell Brown en-us 2016-06-22 23:09:36 UTC 2025-04-22 19:23:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Basketball.png mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115276469 The novel 'It Is no Secret' by Dona Meehan is a true story about her own experience of the stolen generation. Identity and culture is a strong theme in the book, exploring how Meehan's way of survival and the world around her.
A technique that Meehan uses to demonstration this experiance is imagery.
An Example of this technique is "The adults loved eating emu eggs and my grandfather could carve beautiful pictures on the eggshells. it would take many days to carve a picture and each one was different. Us kids used to sit for hours just watching him, how he used to scratch the shell with a sharp knife."
By using this technique, we can get Vivid pictures of the kids sitting for hours watching him carve the egg created by words.
The image of grandfather sitting for hours, carving into an egg with the kids watching shows that identity and culture is a strong theme in the book.
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]]> 2016-06-22 23:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115277485 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115277711 The novel 'It is no Secret' by Dona Meehan is a true story about her experience of the stolen generation. The feeling of been taken away is a strong theme in the book, exploring how Meehan's movement into the white society effects her understanding of her identity and the world around her.
A technique that Meehan uses to demonstrate this experience is descriptive language.
An example of this technique is "With a sudden jerk, squealing of brakes and a load of puff of the steam engine, the train shunted forward. Fear gripped my heart. Barry and Widdy had bewildered looks on their faces, glancing at me then at each other".
By using this technique, we can create a clear image of what she is feeling when the train jerks forward and her mother isn't on-board.
The image of Meehan crying out the window looking at mum reinforces the feeling of been taken away that is created in the novel. 
 ]]> 2016-06-22 23:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115277711 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115438523 The show "Pictures of You - Ahn Do" is a true story of Ahn's experiences of being a refugee. Importance of family is a strong theme in the show, experiencing about Ahn's personal experience of the way life was like in Vietnam.
A technique Ahn uses to demonstrate his experience in his talk is emotive language.
An example of this technique is "Prisoners around them were dyeing of starvation, of disease and being executed"
By using this technique, the reality of the story stir the readers’ emotions because they feel sorry for what they have been going through.
The image Ahn creats of his brave father shows that importance of family is a strong theme in the show.]]> 2016-06-26 01:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115438523 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115438978 "Pictures of You - Ahn Do"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNI6aRwXFwY]]> 2016-06-26 01:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115438978 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115442755 The show "Pictures of You - Ahn Do" is a true story of Ahn's experiences of being a refugee. Displacement is a strong theme in the show. Him and his family were forced out of Vietnam due to the dangerous conditions of the Vietnam War.
A technique Ahn uses to demonstrate his experience is first-person narration.
An Example of this technique is "My family had to get a boat and then eventually forty Vietnamese neighbours, cousins, anyone who need to leave Vietnam. Forty Vietnamese got on a 9.5 meter fishing boat, crammed in like sardines."
By using this technique, we learn about his experience of escaping the Vietnam War and the trouble he came across on his journey to Australia.
The image of Ahn and his family fleeing Vietnam shows that displacement is a strong theme is this show. 

]]> 2016-06-26 07:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115442755 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447389 2016-06-26 10:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447389 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447550 Displacement - 'With a sudden jerk, squealing of brakes and a loud puff of the steam engine, the train shunted forward ... I stared out the window as we slowly pulled out of the station. I was very confused. I saw the women standing on the platform watching us and wailing. Then I saw her. There was my mum in her only good blue dress standing next to my aunts and our old grandmother. Just standing there. Standing there with tears rolling down their cheeks too fast to even wipe away. Then Mum waved a white hanky and I pressed my face against the window pane as hard as I could, watching her.'
It is no Secret' Page 31, Descriptive Language]]> 2016-06-26 11:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447550 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447651 Identity and culture - "The adults loved eating emu eggs and my grandfather could carve beautiful pictures on the eggshells. it would take many days to carve a picture and each one was different. Us kids used to sit for hours just watching him, how he used to scratch the shell with a sharp knife. There were 7 layers on the egg and the different layers gave varied colours from black, grey, and cream depending how deep he carved in. Carving was so dangerous we all thought he would cut off his fingers."
'It is no Secret' Page 14, Imagery 

]]> 2016-06-26 11:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447651 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447832 2016-06-26 11:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447832 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447912 Importance of Family - 'After the war has finished, my mums two elder brothers, they were put into concentration camps, and my family thought they were going to be there for two weeks, but they had been there for three years. Prisoners around them were dyeing of starvation, of disease and being executed, so my father, who was a twenty-five year old Vietnamese kid at the time, he goes and he steals a high level communist solider and paper work. He walks right though the front of the jail and he said "I need to take these two with me right know, and they let my uncles go'
'Pictures of you' - Ahn Do, Emotive Language]]> 2016-06-26 11:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115447912 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115448360 Displacement - 'We went into hiding for a while, my family had to get a boat and then eventually forty Vietnamese neighbours, cousins, anyone who needed to leave Vietnam. Forty Vietnamese got on a nine and a half meter fishing boat, crammed in like sardines. As we leave Vietnam, communist soldiers spot us in the distance and they chase and they shoot at us, were far enough that we get away, and once we go beyond the boarder patrol zone, they stop chasing us, but they blew one of the engines.'
'Pictures of you' Ahn do, First person narration]]> 2016-06-26 11:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115448360 mitchell_brown65 https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115448719 2016-06-26 12:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchell_brown65/zja9frpyex0e/wish/115448719