”(Lai,1). Ha is also a very rebellious person when she is living in Vietnam because in Vietnam she directly defies her mother. Also when she defies Mother it isn’t one little disobedience it is Ha defining her religion and her culture because it is something her culture does. And finally Ha in Vietnam is comertable as show when she regularly goes to the market alone and how at her school she feels very compatible, because she bullies the other girl who had her desk. “I used to like making the
In Thanhha Lai’s book, Inside Out and Back Again, Ha is a dynamic character because she becomes caring and learns a lot. First, Ha learns new ways of living life. One of the things was that her everyday life in Saigon changed from the starting of the war.
Inside out and back again by Thanhha Lai is a work of historical fiction. First, Ha and her family were forced to flee their home country of Vietnam due to war. They have to face this hardship and without the support of their father, who was kidnapped by the Communists and disappeared. Then, they travel on a boat in unsanitary and awful conditions to refugee camp in Guam. Next, they are sponsored by a man they called ‘’cowboy’’ and and taken to live with him in Alabama.
The Happiest Refugee is an autobiography written by Anh Do, that shows the challenges Anh and his family faced and how they overcame them. The autobiography expresses hardship and racism to show social injustice that people have experienced through their opportunities, and how to adjust from those experiences and situations as our identity changes over time. Anh Do reflect on his story based on his experiences and social injustice in life through the concept of racism. Anh Do uses emotive language, “I was the only Asian student in the class, and I felt terrible.
Could you imagine having to leave your home due to incredible violence? Or being forced to leave your homeland or else face death? These are the struggles that the three characters Isabel, Josef, and Mahmoud faced in the book Refugee. Throughout the story each child is burdened with these hardships as well as overwhelming fear.
In the novel Inside Out and Back Again, a war between North and South Vietnam takes place. To survive the war, Ha and her family must flee their hometown of Saigon by boat. They move to America, Alabama. The family struggles to fit in and adapt to the American culture, language, food, and tradition. The author Thanhha Lai adds figurative language such as simile and metaphor which allows readers to see Ha’s perspective.
She faces racism, discrimination, loneliness, and, over time, a growing sense of love for her new home. Ha’s life is turned “inside out and back again”. Before Ha had to flee Saigon, she was headstrong and selfish, but she was also a girl who loved her mother and couldn't wait to grow up. She wanted to be able to do something before her older brothers did it, and do it better. But most of all, Ha wanted to fit in, to be liked.
Accounts of war always will be documented throughout history, despite the reasoning or significance. War has been brought upon many countries, whether it was country against country or their people against people. In Inside Out & Back Again, we are taken back to Vietnam and are shown many hardships Vietnamese people faced throughout the Vietnam War. Ha, and her family had to leave their country, in order to escape the war between North and South Vietnam. In this journey, the family had to go through suffering as they tried to build themselves back up from the despair the war had brought upon their family.
As said in "Refugees: Who, Where, Why","People become refugees for many reasons. The number one reason is war. " This is related to Ha's experience, as she also had to flee her country because of war. The Vietnam War separated the country and also tored her family. As said in "Inside Out and Back Again","In the distance, bombs explode like thunder, slashes lighten the sky, gunfire falls like rain.
Having to leave your loved home is hard for everyone. In Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, For 10-year-old Kim Ha flees Saigon she feels the same emotions. War forced her family to flee to America to find a loving and strange new place. Kim finds a new family to guide her through a new journey despite new struggles and hardships. Thesis:
These are similar because of the fact that real life refugee’s might not feel accepted with their home’s because they might not speak the language and they could be threatened by others. Both Ha and real-life refugees turn “inside out” as they do not have enough essentials and they have trouble fitting
The novel Inside Out and Back Again is a novel like no other because the main character Ha who had to flee South Vietnam to find a new home experiences a lot that relates to refugees everywhere. Ha is a 10 year old girl who lives in South Vietnam with her brothers and mother. With war near their home, Ha’s mother is worried so she decides it’s best for them to leave South Vietnam to find another home in a safer place. Ha having to flee her home changes her into a person who she never thought she would become.
In the article “More Than One Way of Dying” by David Hollenbach, the short story “Letter to a Young Refugee from Another” by Andrew Lam, and the poem “Song of P’eng-ya” by Tu Fu, the narrators talk about the horrifying living conditions, how to survive, and ways to help protect their human rights. More than 33 million people are forced to flee their country, becoming refugees in the world today. Over half that number is located in Africa. Most of these refugees were driven from their countries by fear of armed forces. Most people are forced to stay in internment camps because of lack of available shelter.
The novel Inside Out and Back Again is full of meaning, especially the title, referring to the journey most relocated refugees embark on. This novel written by Thanhha Lai, is about a young girl named Ha who is forced to flee her home Saigon after the communist North Vietnamese take control of her city. Before Ha left her home, she was a rebellious and curious kid. When the war hits home, she is hardened in a way, she lets go of her childhood. The war turned Ha “inside out”.
Live is different in some ways, such as the language. Ha says,“My vocabulary grows…” (Lai,166). A start of a new beginning, Ha has a chance to soak in new knowledge with her young mind. Therefore she is able to grow in her vocabulary and other subjects. Every refugee has their own way of expressing their journey, but many experience the same thing, language.
