' This quote uses the technique personification to gives the reader a better description and mental picture of the physical Journey. The engine was spewing out thick petrol fumes. For example when refugees' boat engine started spluttering, the reader is in suspense because the refugees Journey could come to an end. Throughout their physical Journey they had to overcome many problems. The aim of their Journey was to safely reach Australia. The extract s about Vietnam refugees escape from their war-torn country in an overcrowded, battered boat. In The Happiest Refuge, there are both physical and emotional Journeys. The techniques that the composer uses to express the journeys are personification, onomatopoeia, repetition, similes, metaphors, music and acting skills. DOD in 2010, The Silver Donkey novel by Sonny Hairnets in 2004 and the film Bend It Like Beckman directed by Grinder Chad in 2002. Various types of Journeys can be seen clearly in the three texts studied this year: The Happiest Refugee extract, written by Ann.

Anh's story will move and amuse all who hear it.A Journey is a physical or psychological adventure that takes from one place to another. Tragedy, humour, heartache and unswerving determination – a big life with big dreams. The Happiest Refugee tells the incredible, uplifting and inspiring life story of one of our favourite personalities.

'Four,' the answer came back, and that was it. Another inspiration was the comedian Anh met when he was about to sign on for a 60-hour a week corporate job. His mother's sacrifice was an inspiration to Anh and he worked hard during his teenage years to help her make ends meet, also managing to graduate high school and then university. Things got harder when their father left home when Anh was 13 – they felt his loss very deeply and their mother struggled to support the family on her own. But there was a loving extended family, and always friends and play and something to laugh about for Anh, his brother Khoa and their sister Tram.

Life in Australia was hard, an endless succession of back-breaking work, crowded rooms, ruthless landlords and make-do everything. But nothing – not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days – could quench their desire to make a better life in a country where freedom existed. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.Īnh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia.

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