He further cements this historical catalogue by. Tran graduated Bard College in 1995 with a BA in Classics and received the Callanan Classics Prize. He follows his childhood from the age of four to 18. Phuc Tran has been a high school Latin teacher for more than twenty years while also simultaneously establishing himself as a highly sought-after tattooer in the Northeast. Although Phuc organizes the thematic focus of each chapter by the books he references, he also does this by maintaining the chronological order of his life’s events. The sequential ordering of events is also relevant to the structure of the memoir.
This demonstrates how Phuc closely ties his experiences to the contents of these influential books. The violence of Dostoevsky’s world is women throughout Crime and Punishment, stitched into the very language of the novel’s narrative” (37). For example, in Chapter 2, he writes, “Violence lashed Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment to my childhood. And this month he takes on a new job title author with the publication of Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk. Phuc often directly reflects on these books within the text. Tran, who lives in Portland, Maine, is also a tattoo artist.
Sigh, Gone has 11 chronological chapters and a Prologue, each named after a different literary work that resonates with the thematic materials present in the chapter.
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