Unit 3
Author
Background
Genre
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WB TR
Background
Author
His Life
• Born in a remote Esarn village in Thailand • First language Lao • Temple boy in Bangkok at 14 • Thailand’s top university • Scholarship to New Zealand to study English • 30-year odyssey through New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland • Retired to a solitary life in his home village in 1997, helping needy students and teachers in a private school with funds set up by himself
2. The woman loved her children dearly and was very concerned about their life away from home, while her husband did not care a bit.
3. The villagers used to grow their own food, make their own crafts, and dig their own well, but now they have to hire people to do everything.