inform the bank in advance.

store a copy of both documents.

tear them into thin pieces.

delete the identification number first.

not cut any of these documents.

seemed at times defenceless, vulnerable, and child-like.

had just quit smoking cigarettes.

tried deliberately to use the music-like quality of her mother tongue to lure her interviewers.

grew tired of the Vietnam War.

had become a close friend of the Italian Ambassador in Hanoi at the time of the war.

contrast.

reiteration.

inclusion.

result.

addition.

to be bracketed with.

to foster.

to vie against.

to prevail over.

to hold on to.

an overprotective and controlling individual who wanted to be an integral part in all aspects of his daughter's life.

prudish parent who persistently demanded that his daughter be or appear to be very prim, proper, modest and righteous at all times.

a paranoid father who refused to let go, and clamped her down with hard and fast rules and strict discipline.

a doting father whose motto could very well be "Spare the rod, spoil the child".

a caring parent who was well-aware of the peculiar atmosphere that pervaded college campuses in the late '70s: permissive, in a state of constant political unrest, and overindulgent in terms of drinking.

unduly optimistic, coloured by the typically unattainable idealism of young people.

predictably hopelessly distorted by the author's white middle-class background and petit bourgeois values.

inherently flawed and, therefore, pointless for it fails to place the country in a broader regional, African, or world context.

basically descriptive and provides information about a politically, socially, and racially unequal and unfair society poised on the verge of momentous changes.

oddly detached and unemotional due, perhaps, to the fact that she can only sympathize with the oppressed black population's plight up to a point.