Anh Do's Book 'The Happiest Refugee'

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The topic of this Essay will be Anh Do’s book The Happiest Refugee (Anh Do, 2010).
It will go over emotional, suspenseful and humorous elements that Anh has successfully portrayed in his book. The Happiest Refugee is about Anh’s life and his ups and downs it tells readers about how he made it to Australia and how much of a miracle it is that he did. Anh’s use of writing techniques is visible and will be explained in this essay.

How Anh makes things funny and humorous is quite interesting, he uses things like Hyperbole, Simile and Misdirection to get the readers enticed to learn more about Anh’s life. In the book, Anh has a very strong use of Misdirection, one of the most obvious cases comes from page 79 when Anh walks into the barber so he

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