Problem
Compose an essay of at least three pages and no more than four in which you create an argument from the topics below that supports your thesis.
a) THEME AND RELATIONSHIPS: In Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, without having language to connect them, how do the narrator and his mother communicate their love for one another?
b) CONFLICT AND RELATIONSHIPS: How does being raised by two women, whose own relationship is complicated and fraught, impact the narrator? What does he come to understand about violence, sexuality, and loyalty from them? How does their triangle of conflict blur the lines between generations, and within typical mother-daughter/mother-son relationships?