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Title: Growing up Asian in Australia


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Growing up Asian in Australia
  • (Identity and Belong)

2
Name of short story Destiny(Author Shalini
Akhil)
  • Destiny something that is to happen or has
    happened to a particular person or thing lot or
    fortune.
  • This story is happen in Akhil very young .
  • She was very young when her obsession started
    sparked by the cartoon version , it intensified
    with the television series.

3
Name of short story Destiny(Author Shalini
Akhil)
  • New Vocabulary
  • costume dress or garb
  • sparkly tending to sparkle animated lively
    a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
  • nappies liquor, especially ale.
  • padding material, as cotton or straw, used to
    pad something.

4
Name of short story Destiny(Author Shalini
Akhil)

Every year Akhil thought her reflexes were
lightning fast , her aim was true . She alway
thought when she grew up , she would be Wonder
Woman. That is her destiny.
5
  • One day , Akhil's grandmother came to stay with
    them. Akhil told her about her destiny . As they
    discussed her plan, grandmother reminded Akhil
    that she was Indian.
  • Akhil know her skin was the wrong colour, her
    eyes were the wrong colour, and her legs just
    weren't long enought.Grandmother did't like the
    way Wonder Woman dressed. She said if leave the
    house without putting your skirt on , no one will
    take you seriously.
  • Then they started to think about what an
    Indian-girl crime-fighter might wear.Truth be
    told , Wonder Woman looked a lot like put over
    babies' nappies.

6
Grandmother suggested that Indian Wonder Woman
could wear a lungi. They sketched a lungi over
Wonder Woman's legs.
Grandmother mentioned that rolling rotis was like
a magic power. Akhil felt sorry for the old
Wonder Woman. She imagined her eating her
grandmother peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches
alone, without a magical grandmother to suggest
wearing lungi over her embarrassing sparkly
nappies.
7
Name of short story Destiny(Author Shalini
Akhil)
  • When she grew up, she was going to be Indian
    Wonder Woman .

8
  • When we are little our imagination runs wild and
    we dont have time to focus on to little details.
  • Family remin our identity and belonging when we
    are young.
  • When we are young ,our identity and belong easy
    to change form family.
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