Powerless in her situation

Question 1

POWER
BELONGING
CLASS

Powerless to change her situation

Answer 1

The truth is I could not escape my circumstances, nor did I really expect him to allow me to change them

She would have had more control and power on the situation if she was from a different class

Question 2

BELONGING
CLASS
IDENTITY
flowers

Answer 2

White daisy bouquet of slim pickings…they cast out all yellow chrysanthemums and anything brown was considered wilted

Reduced to the colour of her skin

Question 3

CHANGE IDENTITY BELONGING

Lihn keeping her true
2 of them

Answer 3

How you listened to me and kept me true even when I wanted to block my ears

In the past I would have never felt shamed of you. I would have chased you”

Honest with herself
She wants to fit in a survive and loses herself

Question 4

BELONGING
IDENTITY

cabinet needed to be content with themselves

Answer 4

THE CABINET NEEDED TO BE THE GOOD GIRLS THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE

Question 5

CHANGE BELONGING CLASS
Grotty allusion

Answer 5

I always felt grottier than most girls at Laurinda…Stanley was a gotty place

Question 6

POWER

Mr Sinclair yelling

Answer 6

This was a real shame because we respected him, it was frightening to be put in your place…he was his own person…he didn’t care what we thought

Question 7

POWER, POPULARITY, CLASS

real

Answer 7

Their lives weren’t real…they weren’t real

Question 8

ECONOMIC CLASS

Donaldsons’

Answer 8

In our neighbourhood we all new our place

Question 9

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CLASS, POWER

politician

Answer 9

They swarm, form ghettos and don’t assimulate

Question 10

SOCIAL CLASS, POWER, CHANGE

mum

Answer 10

I don’t know how to be a mum\

“Back in Vietnam, village kids were left to find their own fun

Question 11

BELONGING, IDENTITY, CHANGE

lihn losing

Answer 11

…it was like losing a soul

Question 12

POWER, CHANGE, SOCIAL CLASS

sTRAWBERRIES

Answer 12

LIKE HOT HOUSE STRAWBERRIES, lusha nd cultivated. Yet they would bruise in the real world

Question 13

Power, belonging, identity, social economic

povvo

Answer 13

Equal access scholarship, for the kids the school considered the parents to be povvo

Question 14

POWER, ECONOMIC CLASS

triangle

Answer 14

A triangle, the strongest shape in trigonometry

Question 15

POWER, SOCIAL CLASS, ECONOMIC, CHANGE, BELONGING

shiny

Answer 15

Girls were always more powerful together…more shiny

Question 16

POWER, ECONOMIC CLASS

finsite places

Answer 16

You of all people should know there a finite places and we believe in equal access. It’s the very reason you are at Laurinda\

You see things as you are, and you are wrong

Question 17

POWER, IDENTITY,

not racist

Answer 17

…we’re not racist!

Question 18

SOCIAL ECONOMIC CLASS

mcdonalds

Answer 18

Food of the gods

…the types of girls I now hung around [considered] McDonald’s… [to be] the food of poor fat [people].

Question 19

EQUALITY, BELONGING, ECONOMIC CLASS

equal

Answer 19

Not all groups are created equal: I knew that

Question 20

BELONGING, IDENTITY, SOCIAL CLASS

disquieted

Answer 20

The more I began to understand this insular world of Laurinda, the more disquieted I felt

Question 21

SOCIAL CLASS, BELONGING

citizen

Answer 21

Hoping to indicate I would be an upstanding Laurdinian citizen

Question 22

POWER, BELONGING

mrs grey

police

spirit

Answer 22

Mrs grey loves the cabinet…they maintained the Laurinda myth…keep the dissenters in line and cull the weak”

“how we silently policed each other”

They were the one’s responsible for keeping the elusive Laurindian spirit alive”

Question 23

SOCIAL CLASS, BELONGING, UNDERSTANDING

stench

peoples minds

Answer 23

The room was soon leaking with the odourless tench of collective contempt”

“Popularity and power was based on things that were seen or felt, on ideas planted in others people’s minds’

Question 24

Power

wing

Answer 24

“from day one we’ve taken you under our wing, lucy Lam”

Question 25

POwer, social economic class rock

Answer 25

like a femme fatale with a rock

Question 26

POWER, ECONOMIC CLASS, IDENTITY administration

Answer 26

The administration could see that the Cabinet were now growing far too influential.”

Question 27

IDENITY, BELONGING, SOCIAL CLASS grime

Answer 27

‘its grime attached itself only to certain types of people

Question 28

POWER, SOCIAL CLASS, BELONGING who cares

Answer 28

“No one who cares about her social position would leave the cabinet”

Question 29

SOCIAL CLASS, BELONGING, IDENTITY mrs leslie vs parents 2 quotes

Answer 29

“I knew Mrs Leslie was itching to remind me how proud my parents must be and what a great contribution to this country we refugees made. I felt awkward because she didn’t know the real us” “Mrs Leslie always had expensive stuff lying around. My mum and dad always told me to hide our valuables...”

Question 30

BELONGING, IDENTITY, ECONOMIC CLASS stoic refugees

Answer 30

“He wanted to act like stoic refugees when it worked to our advantage”

Question 31

CULTURE, IDENTITY, BELONGING, CHANGE, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CLASS so ashamed - daughter

Answer 31

“I can’t believe I have a daughter who is ashamed of her culture. So ashamed she won’t even have friends over...” 139

Question 32

BELONGING, IDENITY, CHANGE, SOCIAL CLASS keep myself apart

Answer 32

“To be a part of the Cabinet, I had to keep my true self apart.” - 267

Question 33

CULTURE, IDENTIY, BELONGING, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CLASS trashed

Answer 33

“ Brodie had seen the most precious part of me, and she’d trashed it”

Question 34

CHANGE, IDENTITY, SOCIAL CLASS 2 quotes unhealthy interest desire for things

Answer 34

i was beginning that i should not have noticed, and take an unhealthy interest in things that had never before interested me.”pg. 203 “But something new has happened to me. Now i felt a desire for things i could not voice.” pg. 203.

Question 35

CHANGE, BELONGING, IDENTITY, SOCIAL CLASS paradox of adolescence

Answer 35

And here was the bitter paradox of adolescence: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self that was visible, the self that could be shown to other people”

Question 36

CHANGE, BELONGING piecing

Answer 36

...to have integrity means piecing together all the separate parts of yourself and your life

Question 37

CHANGE, ECONOMIC CLASS bowl of rice

Answer 37

You may not think this is important because you have a different life now but this shirt buys you a bowl of rice every night.

Question 38

CHANGE, IDENTITY, BELONGING, SOCIAL CLASS dark secret

Answer 38

...recognised my dark secret need to be acknowledged