After reading “Live-in cook” it seems to me as though Binh
has a more troubled life that he mentions. He’s been traveling from place to
place, house to house for a cooking job and in his stay in Bilignin he seems to
take part in a lot of drinking. Usually people drink all the time when they
are troubled to help them forget the things that trouble them. But the drinking never lets him forget anything even though he wishes it would.
I agree i think Binh has a troubled life he talks about having to suffer because of his mom's misdeeds. Also in one of the interviews he talked about how he said he lived in paris for three years and that had the interviewer questioning where he had been the three years prior.
ReplyDeleteTrudel- yes, Binh does not fully reveal what it is that troubles him. But based on what he says, what seems to be troubling him?
ReplyDeleteLillian- I don't think Binh was referring to himself when he mentioned the issue of mothers' misdeeds. Can you go back to the passage, and check?
His language, he cannot fully speak French and people reference to it. Being a live-in cook for all kinds of people which includes doing other things than cooking and a in a sense their servant. Being rejected by some of the families he's interviewd by, which makes him form the three catagories. And the questions people in Bilignin ask him. To name a few.
ReplyDeleteWhere does Binh feel more welcome? In Paris or Bilignin? Is there any place where he finds comfort and feels at home?
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