Discuss Choy’s use of “hauntings” and ghost stories in his memoir and why ghost stories were so important to him.

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(1) Compare Choy’s image of Vancouver in war-time 1940s to Lau’s suburban/urban perspectives in the late 1980s.
• Use specific examples (cited quotations) from the memoirs.
• Identify 1-3 differences/similarities in how each describes the landscape (streets, buildings, etc)
(2) Choy often speaks of different kinds of ghosts in his memoir and the ways in which the ghosts haunted his childhood: “I took for granted that the Keefer house had a kwei, a ghost, that had provoked father to turn into a demon” (Choy; as cited in Fetherling, 2001, p. 474).
• Discuss Choy’s use of “hauntings” and ghost stories in his memoir and why ghost stories were so important to him.
• Include 1-2 quotations from Choy
• In what way is Lau also “haunted” in her memoir? Give examples.
(3) ask that we look closely at the ways in which context impacts Life Writing. Discuss how the lead characters/narrators are effected by either their social, economic, and/or psychological context.

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