{"id":11369,"date":"2024-02-12T21:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/response-on-literary-critic-don-goellnichts-comment-on-short-story-the-boat-by-nam-le\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:12:52","slug":"response-on-literary-critic-don-goellnichts-comment-on-short-story-the-boat-by-nam-le","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/response-on-literary-critic-don-goellnichts-comment-on-short-story-the-boat-by-nam-le\/","title":{"rendered":"response on Literary critic Don Goellnicht&#8217;s comment on short story &#8220;The Boat&#8221; by Nam Le"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">For this writing you need to read the short story &#8220;The Boat&#8221; by Nam Le or the interactive version of &#8220;The Boat&#8221; by Matt Huyhn. You can refer to the original story or to both combined in your writing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Question:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Literary critic Don Goellnicht has written the following about &#8220;The Boat&#8221; :&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u201cAs the refugee story of Mai, Quyen, Truong, and their fellow passengers progresses, the interspersed flashbacks to memories of life under the communists and to Mai&#8217;s escape recede, and even the dialogue between the main characters on the boat decreases as Le&#8217;s narrative focuses more and more on the bodily experiences of the protagonists as they endure the stages of starvation, dehydration, illness, and, in the case of the child, Truong, death&#8221; (215).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">How does this emphasis on the body and bodily functions relate to the question of humanity in this depiction of refugee life?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><b>Write a response in 300-350 words. Include proper citations and a Works Cited.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The interactive version of &#8220;The Boat&#8221; by Matt Huyhn:<\/span>&nbsp;<br \/>https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/theboat\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this writing you need to read the short story &#8220;The Boat&#8221; by Nam Le or the interactive version of &#8220;The Boat&#8221; by Matt Huyhn. You can refer to the original story or to both combined in your writing.&nbsp; Question:&nbsp;Literary critic Don Goellnicht has written the following about &#8220;The Boat&#8221; :&nbsp; \u201cAs the refugee story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[14],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}