Growing up in Australia can have a positive effect the students, however, many suffer from discrimination, isolation and racism. This is practically hard for children to endure as the as told by Hop Dac and Aditi Gouvernel. Dac and Gouvernel are both from Asian backgrounds in their memoirs "Pigs From Home" and "Wei Li and Me". Both of these memoirs clearly convey that the struggled with going up in Australia. Gouvernel faced issues with being different from the rest of the students and Dac found it difficult to accept the lifestyle and culture of his grandmother. These perspectives on growing up are evident through the distinct tone created by language feature and simple sentences. Gouvernel effectively conveys her frustration and feelings of fear through the deliberate use of language features, while Dac also implements language features to clearly depict his strong feelings of affliction and isolation, …show more content…
Gouvernel further reinforces the idea that she is being picked on with the sentence “I didn’t say anything. I just looked straight ahead.” This sentence emphasises the anxiety that has overcome her as she is placed in front of her bully: Barry. This overall creates a distressed tone. In contrast to this, Dac also implements simple sentences into his memoir, however, creating a celebratory tone as opposed to the distressed tone that Gouvernel creates in her memoir. The sentence “My parents don’t keep pigs anymore. They don’t need to” creates the tone as the animals that caused unpleasant experiences as a child will no longer be able to haunt and terrorise him. Clearly, both authors have utilised simple sentences to convey different tones but similar perspectives: that growing up in Australia with a different culture is