The best we could do to decipher
This is the story of two timelines: Thi Bui and her family and the history of her parents. The average reader of such a book only sees the story of a family going and learning a new life. But to us, we see more than that. The cultural background of the comic depicts so much more than something a play or book can show us. This is also an element we learned this week, that some forms of content can provide information better than others, the colors throughout the comic so far have shown us a great deal of its cultural significance and not just that, but how it bleeds into other parts of the book. This is seen at the end of chapter 1 where we see the color orange bleed into the beginning of chapter 2, just a reminder that chapter one was Thi giving birth to her child and chapter 2 was the learning of responsibilities as a mother. From my limited information on the life of immigrants or at least legal immigrants, it's seen that respect and following the orders or dire...