![]() ![]() You give a quick hint at it, quoting people asking, “Is the Q really pronounced that way?” But then you step back and you don’t tell us! So can you pronounce your name, please? The same technique extends to how people pronounce, or mispronounce, your name. Why do you have blue eyes? How is that possible? Why does your skin burn under the sun? Not judgmental things, just odd things, and I wanted to transport the reader to what it felt like to be in that child’s shoes. ![]() I wanted to emphasize to my eyes, the white characters were the ones that were worth noting because there are elements of being white that are strange to someone from a different country. Totally! I wanted to emphasize that it’s so easy for people of color to empathize with white people because they’re all over the media and they’re so humanized, fully fleshed out, and the rest of us receive less attention. One thing I noticed is you employ a technique that I saw in a New Yorker short story a few months ago written by a person of color, of not making an ethnic description of people who look like you but of those who don’t, particularly white people, like one of your teachers. ![]()
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