What do these short stories and collections have in common? A. They consist of eight stories. B. They have won certain award. C. They are told from an immigrant's perspective. D. They demonstrate the hardships of Canadian authors. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 【答案】1.B 2. C 3....
Lily is the first woman to be a part of the dragon dance, the elaborate traditional celebration that links her (presumably immigrant/diaspora) community with their home culture. There is quite a lot of description going on in the opening pages, which contributed to the slow, drawn-out feel ...
Short Stories This story by T. C. Boyle is a fictional account of the founding of California’s Forestiere Underground Gardens by an Italian immigrant in the early 1900s. The immigrant is initially disheartened to find that 70 acres of land he bought by mail order is too dry and hard to...
Lalo and Lena, a short film inspired by my parents' lives, depicts their separate struggles with drugs and gangs in the 1990s. Lalo, an immigrant, deals drugs against his religious beliefs and mother's wishes, while Lena, a first-generation Mexican-American, rebels against her parents by ski...
Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality If you are looking to bring ghosts, zombies, and demons into your classroom, check out this essay collection byLindsay Wong. She touches on the immigrant experience from Shanghai to Vancouver and the horror stories that come with it. There are literal ...
“Flotsam” is the first story in the Amazon preview ofThe Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg. “Gotcha!” byRay Bradbury A man and woman are totally in love. About a year into the relationship, the woman brings up a game called “Gotcha”. The man has never heard of it. They make...
These short stories about loneliness and isolation deal with the various feelings people experience when they’re forced to be on their own more than they want. They also feature characters who are seeking connection, or those who have company but are disconnected from those around them. It’s...
about a baby left outside a church by his mother: he never stopped watching movies after that. He began writing short stories in 2009. His love for cinema pushed him to turn his own stories into scripts and then to film. In 2015, he shot his first short film, “The Corpse Is Alive...
Memoir: A Personal Story Of An Immigrant They had seen videos the orphanage had sent us and the letters about us but it was better to see us in person. They were so amazing on how we were mini mes of my mom and dad. My mom and I both had red hair, brown eyes, freckles, and ...
Documentary shorts like Out of Many, One gives a voice to the immigrant experience while educating those who have never left their birth countries. It's an empathetic yet realistic short film. Watch On Netflix 11 The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022) The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022) Release ...