On Frozen Pond
From the moment he looked right up to the night sky, Minh had always been an avid stargazer and as a result, he would go on to dedicate his life to mapping the stars. His affinity for it started first as wonderment despite not knowing which stars he was studying out in the open fields of his family farm. His fascination with stars became of greater significance when it became a beacon of hope. Shortly after the fall of Saigon, Minh, at age five, found himself navigating the waters after many people around him had either been captured or thrown overboard by pirates or sacrificed themselves when the boat capsized at times during their voyage. Those events became heavily ingrained in his memory thereon, that when he watches Jack sacrifice himself for Rose in Titanic, his emotions were more magnified than for the average viewer, as he remembered how he came to survive and how helpless he felt out in the vast ocean. He recalls that on one of those nights, a particular star stood out to him, Polaris. Having been fixed at the very same location each night, his observation of it helped guide the sinking boat towards America.