64 pages • 2 hours read
Anh DoThe Happiest Refugee
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics.
Paired Texts & Other Resources
Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.
Recommended Texts for Pairing
- The 2017 novel by Alan Gratz intertwines the fictional accounts of three refugee children.
- In addition to the central motifs of the journey of refugees, especially those on boats, it also relates to the themes of Father-Son Relationship, Gratitude, and Poverty and Hard Work
- SuperSummary’s Refugee Study Guide
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
- Behrouz Boochani wrote this 2013 memoir on the WhatsApp communication application while incarcerated in Australia’s Manus Regional Processing Centre, awaiting refugee status.
- relates to the refugee experience in Australia
- Published in 2013, it is the first in the series of WeirDo books by Anh Do.
- relates to the Australian refugee experience
Other Student Resources
- Released in 2020 on Netflix, the show centers on the lives of several refugees in an Australian detention center in 2004.
- relates to the refugee experience in Australia
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