Conversations With My Parents By Oanh Thi Tran

1.What is ironic about the way the author and the father become close? What has to happen to the father?

It is ironic because they were healthy and young but weren't close to each other than became sick and Oanh then became close with him again.

2. How would you characterise the conversation that the author has with her parents?

A short and cliche conversation.

3. What is it that worries the author most about these conversations?

That she never tells them that she loves them.

4. There is a gap between the author’s need to express feelings common in western countries and her family’s lack of desire to express their feelings verbally. How does the family still express their feelings for their child, just not verbally?
They pressure her to live like they did by buying Vietnamese groceries and talking about meals such as Banh Xeo