{"id":412,"date":"2021-08-27T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/?p=412"},"modified":"2022-07-13T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:20:18","slug":"el%e6%9c%ac%e6%a3%9a%e7%b4%b9%e4%bb%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/412\/","title":{"rendered":"EL\u672c\u68da\u7d39\u4ecb(1) The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions\/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the <\/em>tags<em> to find books about topics you might be interested in.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p><em>The Magic Fish <\/em>is told in a series of fairy tales \u2013 different versions of Cinderella and the Little Mermaid \u2013 which reflect the lives and emotions of the two main characters, Tien, a 13-year-old boy living in America, and his mother, a refugee from Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>This book does something special: it takes different themes (LGBTQ, Vietnam refugees, coming of age) set in different locations and different times, and tells a story that is very easy to follow and understand. Each scene is color coded: America is pink, fairy tales are blue, and Vietnam is yellow, so the story is not confusing at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My two cents:<\/strong> The characters tell a German version and a Vietnamese version of Cinderella, and you will be surprised by both!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1668\" src=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/magicfish-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/magicfish-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/magicfish.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,18,12,11,10,14],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-book-introductions","tag-comic-book","tag-crime","tag-fairy-tale","tag-immigrant","tag-lgbtq","tag-social-issues","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}