Growing up Asian in Australia

(Identity and Belong)

Name of short story : Destiny(Author : Shalini Akhil)

• Destiny : something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune.

• This story is happen in Akhil very young .• She was very young when her obsession started ;spar

ked by the cartoon version , it intensified with the television series.

Name of short story : Destiny(Author : Shalini Akhil)

New Vocabulary:• costume : dress or garb• sparkly : tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row o

f sparkly cheerleaders.• nappies : liquor, especially ale. • padding : material, as cotton or straw, used to pad so

mething.

Name of short story : Destiny(Author : Shalini Akhil)

Every year Akhil thought her reflexes were lightning fast , her aim was true . She alway thought when she grew up , she would be Wonder Woman. That is her destiny.

• One day , Akhil's grandmother came to stay with them. Akhil told her about her destiny . As they discussed her plan, grandmother reminded Akhil that she was Indian.

• Akhil know her skin was the wrong colour, her eyes were the wrong colour, and her legs just weren't long enought.Grandmother did't like the way Wonder Woman dressed. She said if leave the house without putting your skirt on , no one will take you seriously.

• Then they started to think about what an Indian-girl crime-fighter might wear.Truth be told , Wonder Woman looked a lot like put over babies' nappies.

Grandmother suggested that Indian Wonder Woman could wear a lungi.They sketched a lungi over Wonder Woman's legs.

Grandmother mentioned that rolling rotis was like a magic power. Akhil felt sorry for the old Wonder Woman. She imagined her eating her grandmother peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches alone, without a magical grandmother to suggest wearing lungi over her embarrassing sparkly nappies.

Name of short story : Destiny(Author : Shalini Akhil)

• When she grew up, she was going to be Indian Wonder Woman .

• When we are little our imagination runs wild and we don’t have time to focus on to little details.

• Family remin our identity and belonging when we are young.

• When we are young ,our identity and belong easy to change form family.