16) Diaspora means the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. In “The Wizard of Khao-I-Dang” this concept is shown when the Cambodian refugees are leaving their homeland to escape to Australia because of the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime resulting in the killing fields.
15) A theme would be the in-between. The story is based on Cambodian refugees being accepted or denied into Australia by the Australian Embassy staff. The in-between of not knowing if they will be able to cross the boarder because of their nationality, gender and literacy rates.
14) The beginning image is a person sitting on their white porch in a brown hanging can chair drinking coffee and watching a midnight storm. The contrast of the storm and the character
