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Analyzing The Diary Of A 10 Year Old Girl In Vietnam

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The story that is being researched is Inside out & back again were a little 10 year old girl is in a war-torn country ( Southern Vietnamese ) and her and her family is choosing from life and death and decide to move and are on a ship for two weeks while they enter and Island called Guam when an American decided to sponsor them and move to Alabama where the American helps them get settle in when then she goes into a new school and gets made fun and live in America from no on. What I know is that HA’ has longer arm hair than an average American female and gets made fun of that and in southern Vietnamese there's a lot of bombs and gunfire being blown in distances leaving many families to leave the Country. And the topic of the story will be about Vietnam a diary of a 10 year Old girl. …show more content…

If there's one thing I would know about this vietnam war is that for the southern vietnamese people they all wanted to leave that country because it was becoming a war torn country and everyone wanted a better life because that’s not what they wanted. And so for HA’ it was kind of I’m not really sure because she really loved it there and she had abandoned her own home and couldn’t do anything but do what her mom said because she was the only parental person who was taking care of all them and using some stuff. Besides the older brother might be able to help out again like he had done down in saigon before they had left and she wouldn’t be made fun of or anything! Well? the only thing about that was or anything that had got affected was the country and the people who were really sad and had really messed up their minds forcing them to commit suicide well the ones who thought Saigon was the only thing that cared. Or Saigon was above all of the southern vietnamese and that really got into their heads. Her father had left on a mission on route 1 and this is how it kind of messed up their

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