Biography The happiest refugee by Ahn do
Ahn do is a famous Vietnamese actor comedian artist and author who wrote multiple books such as
the happiest refugee and the weirdo series and has come runner up in dancing with the stars the
book happiest refugee talk about his life growing up and the struggles he and his family tram, Khoa,
tram and his parents hien and tam do went through growing up in Australia this book was set in
Vietnam and Australia
he was born in 1977 2nd of June in Vietnam and at the age of 2 his father and his uncles bought a
boat and left Vietnam because of the extreme communism and conditions while they left on that
boat they had many struggles like being invaded by pirates getting sick losing rations and the loss of
someone’s life. growing up his family worked hard to maintain a Working class life style his mother
worked in sewing along with his dad and his little sister tram was born here in Australia. While his
parents were searching of a high school for him and his brother to go to they came across saint
Aloysius because they like the motto “born for greater things “and applied for scholarships because
of the price. At age 13 or 12 his dad had changed and became and alcoholic who eventually left Ahn
and his mother and siblings. And because of that it left his mother to look after 3 kids by herself and
for his brother to lose weight. At his time in high school he graduated and went to uni to study for
law even thought is wasn’t his thing and his true passion lied within art, this passion motivated him
to quit law school despite his middling success in the course, and pursue his dream by taking art
classes. He enjoyed Art School thoroughly, and he graduated the course with a degree and
continued to do stand-up comedy.
Down the line Ahn eventually wanted to meet up and see how his dad was coping during the years
his dad was bit sceptical at first living in Melbourne with and whole new family, new wife and new
child. Ahn had mixed feeling about how he was going to react seeing his father but he was the same
old man as bright as he was, a few years down the line they met up again as he had multiple stand u
comedy’s there in with his father confessed that he had a tumour and found out quite recent.
In the Vietnamese war the country became communist and Hanoi was made the new capital after
north and south Viet war
Literacy
You lose respect for him, for authority in general. Then all the things he represents, all the principles,
start to crumble and you ultimately lose respect for yourself. Second person
She was as pale as a sheet simile
Like someone had hung me on the washing line for three months and forgotten I was there. simile
you got to float away on an intoxicating bubble of imagination. Simile/metaphor
in the happiest refugee there was rarely shown except for one time during at stand-up comedy and
there were Australian soldiers who were not fond of him and stop clapping when they realized he
was a Vietnamese person and preceded to dislike him so much that they made bullet hand shots at
him. But he went on with the show and tried to get the soldier to think of him as a regular kid. Later
that night he became friend with them sharing their stories
