Analyse af 'Only you Farang Are So Easy to Come and Leave'

The story “Only you Farang Are So Easy to Come and Leave” makes us realize that life is not easy. Everyone has experienced problems in their lifetime. - Whether it’s with your family or the society. You try to provide for your family and get nothing in return. When you desperately want to fit in and make people happy, but it doesn’t go as planned. When you try to be positive rather than negative, but it doesn’t go your way. When everyday seems the same and you can only blame yourself for it. People, love, and the future can change in any particular situation. You just have to make a move. In this story we get to know a little about Lara and her family.

Lara is a young 14-year-old Asian American girl who was raised in Thailand with two different cultures. Mainly because her father is American, and her mother is Thai. She lives in a little condominium on the outskirts of Bangkok with her parents. She went to an international British school and is in love with a boy named Tom Bell. “I was fourteen and in love with a boy who had ears like cymbals.” ‘P. 1, L. 9’. Lara’s father decides to move to America to work and earn money for them temporarily, and Lara is okay with it,” There was work, he could send money, and we could afford my last years of school.” ‘P.3, L. 103’. Lara seems to have a good relationship with her father, and not likely with her mother. “I skipped the next English class to follow dad downtown…” ‘P. 2, L. 1’, “Why can’t we all go? - Well she can stay here on her own.” ‘P. 2, L. 66-68’. “Why don’t you get a job, Ma? You want to live big so bad, you can go make it happen. Do it yourself.” ‘P. 3, L. 97’. When Lara moved to America with her father, she didn’t want her mother to speak to her father, “He doesn’t want to talk to you,” - I lied in Thai so that she understood. “I want to speak to my husband.”- I switched to English, “I told you, he doesn’t want to talk to you.” ‘P. 4, L. 159’.