Title: Growing up Asian in Australia
1Growing up Asian in Australia
2Name 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.
3Name 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.
4Name 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.
6Grandmother 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.
7Name 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.