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Family - Coggle Diagram
Family
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My Father Growing Old
Father and son are physically and emotionally distant: "I imagine", "calling from another country, increasingly/ distant, more and more a stranger"
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"But I don't/ know where to start", "But these are not the/ things I know how to say from a distance"
Those Who Can't, Teach
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Teck Liang visits Mrs Phua at the nursing home, suggesting that even though Mrs Phua's children had left her there, she has a son in Teck Liang
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Could possibly be because Mrs Ong begs Mrs Phua not to give up on Teck Liang, "Because my husband and me... We give up already...", therefore passing the responsibilities of a parent onto Mrs Phua
Identity
Protagonist's family looks down on her due to her identity, does not have much say even when it comes to her children
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Everest
Father cared for Mahesh, and ended up turning down the job offer in Bangalore, India to find a cure for Mahesh's learning disability in Singapore