Ocean Vuong's Accomplishments

Normally most writers make many novels before one really attracts an audience. For Ocean Vuong it was the opposite his first novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was incredibly beautiful and won many awards. All this success from this novel was well deserved; as a young genius he has many unique ways to incorporate his passions and feelings into his writing. Ocean Vuong often reference his own poetry and shadows it in his writing which is not something that many authors do. He involves the work he previously done to create something magical giving us 'On Earth'. His writing is spectacular having great rhythm, emotions, and involvement of poetry.

"The ear is such a good editor when it comes to rhythm, pressure, momentum" (Vuong). Writers

You're also a monster. But so am I, which is why I can't turn away from you." (Vuong, On Earth). The way Vuong is able to gather these emotions and put them together so effortlessly is incredible. Little Dog knows his mother is abusive due to her PTSD, yet his grandmother is also his protector who deals with schizophrenia. Before Little Dog tried to run away at ten his grandmother said, "She love you, Little Dog. But she sick. Sick like me. In the brains." (Vuong, On Earth). This shows how much his grandmother cares for Little Dog, and expressing how his mother does love Little Dog, but deals with PTSD and hard for Little Dog's mother to express her feelings. She expresses them in a way that can be harmful toward Little Dog's emotions as her goes through physical and emotional abuse from his mother. His mother often hit him for leaving his toys around on the floor, for the readers its devastating leaving most in an emotional reck. Vuong wrote poetry before he wrote this novel and it impacted his writing a lot. He mentioned that he shadowed Night Sky With Exit Wounds, he incorporated his poetry throughout the novel, playing an important role in this unique

But that is only to say it is a book of life, of living," (Vuong, On Earth). I enjoy how well Vuong uses metaphors in his writing to express the personality and way each character talks. You can learn a lot from listening to the way a person speaks. I feel like Vuong portrayed each character very well with the way they speak. Through their metaphors or intense way of dialogue that is used it truly made each character feel alive. Ocean Vuong talks a lot about how he recommends a lot of writers to embrace poetry to enhance their writing. "I would encourage every writer attempting a novel to take a serious earnest attempt at writing poems ...you have to pay attention even to the line, even to every syntactic unit, every breath. It creates hypervigilance to the torque and sensibilities of a certain sentence." (Vuong). By experiencing the path of poetry he was able to create a unique flow and rhythm throughout the story that brought it all together to create this