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Analysis Of Buddha's Dinner By Nguyen

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Stealing Buddha’s Dinner does a great job of demonstrating that people with a different religion, then the predominant one, usually don’t get along. In her memoir, Nguyen makes it clear, that just like her Noi she too follows Buddhism. Her belief land her in multiple arguments with Christian kids. In her memoir, she specifically elaborates her clash on religion with Jenifer Vander Wal. Jenifer was Nguyen’s neighbor and they had a sort of usefulness for each other, therefore they hung out together. Jenifer would provide Nguyen with home-made cookies, fancy stationery, and an experience of an American family (Nguyen 61). On the other hand, Nguyen would provide Jenifer, with various forms of adventure and entertainment, some of which was prohibited in the Vander Wal …show more content…

Nguyen talks about moments when Jenifer and her Bible school friends tried to “save” her (Nguyen 64). Bich being irritated and prideful, trashes their attempts by declaring that “there is no God”, this send the girls crying away, and heartbroken (Nguyen 64). After this day whenever they talked about religion, Jenifer would condescendingly remind everyone that Bich wasn’t “even baptized and [she’s] going to hell” (Nguyen 191). These hostile conversations between Bich and Jenifer display that, if there is a mixture of pride and apathy towards a different religion, there will usually be friction between different religion. Nguyen has various different encounters with Christianity, and there were times when she did try participating but ended up feeling like a fake. When Bich had dinner at Hilly Jansen’s house she participates in saying grace before they began eating (Nguyen 90). She describes herself feeling like a “fraud” during the grace because her pride in Buddha, which was further solidified by Jenifer’s condescending

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