The universal refugee experience consists of “fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion” (Gevert 9). Throughout a refugee 's life they will go through ups and downs, or inside out and back again. The universal refugee experience isn’t something people dream of having but it happens to people everyday all over the world. In the book, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, the author focuses on the events that happen to Ha and her family. These events are the same experiences that every refugee goes
Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their countries in order to escape war, persecution, and natural disaster. Most refugees are ordinary people coming from ordinary places. One of these ordinary people, Kim Hà from South Vietnam, was created as a fictional character for the novel Inside Out & Back Again, written by Thanhha Lai, who modeled it after her own life as a refugee. Lai, just like her character Hà, was forced to flee her home during the Vietnam War, and ended up in the United States, in the state of Alabama. While Hà is a fictional character, Lai gives her certain characteristics so readers of her novel will realize the struggles refugees have to face, and the ways they must recover from them.
Although unfortunately this isn’t an uncommon thing when children and even parents flee to a new country. And finally Ha is inside out like mainy other refugees when she has to learn the culture of the new area she is living in, food, games, clothing. When many refugees arrive in a new country they need to learn the language of the country that they are speaking, Ha is no different “I say A B C and so on... So this is what dumb feels like. ”(Lai,156).
Ha is a little girl who was living in Saigon during the Vietnam war and survived it. Her and her family fled the country avoiding death during this time. During the escape they came across many many obstacles. They were all gone through without her father who had been missing from his service in the military. After going through all these hard times Ha was able to grow stronger as a person.
The novel Refugee by Alan Gratz tells the story of three young refugees, Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud, who are forced to grow up quickly due to the events they experience in the novel. Each character has a unique experience, but they all face challenges that force them to become more mature and responsible. Josef, a Jewish refugee, is forced to grow up quickly when he and his family had to flee Germany because of the Nazis. He had to take on a bigger role in his family when his father went mad after remembering all the trauma and horror in the concentration camps.
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.
Did you know that 33,972 people are forced a day to flee their home due to escalating situations in their home. Like these refugees , Ha and her family are one of those 33,972 refugees. Ha and her family became refugees looking for asylum like any other refugee fleeing their home country due to war. These people are people who leave their country due to escalating situation and try to find a new place to call home . In the book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, tells us about a 10 year old girl who has been through a dangerous war and fleeing her home in Saigon, Vietnam.
People who have been thrust into a completely unfamiliar situation where the differences in daily life leave a big gaping hole. They have to suddenly adjust to living in a completely different way. And often, refugees have to adjust to being in a situation where people might be unfair to them based on where they used to live or their way of life. Refugee children often feel the ache of losing their homes more profoundly than their elders. The article “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison” states “Once in Canada, they both have to endure the ‘push-and-pull’ forces of home and
In the book Refugee, hope is an anchor
These refugees were then turned “back again” by building up a new life and blending into their new communities. Ha’s family blended into American society in the countryside by learning English, socializing, and going to school while also preserving their Vietnamese traditions. This was said in the poem Neigh Not Hee, it says that she and the cowboy went to the school and filled out registration forms for her to attend. Also, in Spelling Rules, it says, “Sometimes the spelling changes when adding a s. Knife become knives.” This shows Ha learning the rules for English Spelling to better understand the people she is surrounded by.
Ha is a girl in the novel Inside Out & Back Again. Inside out means when people have to face the traumas of war, persecution,
Tim Forster Ms Phipps C Block March 20th 2024 Leadership in Times of Crisis: The Journey to Safety with Three Refugees Stepping up in a difficult situation makes a leader. In the book Refugee by Alan Gratz, the three characters, Isabel, Mahmoud, and Josef, are all running away from their home country trying to get to safety. They run into many problems trying to get away. During these problems, the characters learn that taking charge when no one else is willing to is what makes a leader. Josef had to step up many times for his family as a leader.
In the same way for refugees because in “Refugees Children In Canada” it states how “Some have lost many members of their families and many have lost everything that was familiar to them.” (Fantino and Colak) Refugees turn “inside out” when they flee home because they feel pain when they have to leave people and things behind that mean a lot to them. Ha has experienced not living the same way at home just like for all the refugees because in the novel it states “Three pouches of dried papaya Chewy Sugary Waxy Sticky Not the same at all” (Lai 232), this shows Ha is learning about new things which makes her turn “inside out” because she left part of her in South Vietnam. Fleeing home can be difficult because all refugees including Ha know it won’t be the same anymore without the things that had to be left
The lives of refugees are turned “inside out” out when they are forced to flee because they have to leave the only home they have ever known and try to figure out a way to leave their old lives behind. They are not leaving their country because they want to but because they are forced to and it can feel like
The Refugee Experience The universal refugee experience is related to Ha’s refugee experience in the book Inside Out and Back Again, because they both have to find transportation, learn a new culture, and find a new home. In the Desperation at Sea article in the Junior Scholastic Magazine Ali fled his home in Somalia. He had to travel across the Sahara Desert in the back of a pickup truck to get to Tripoli, Libya in order to get on a boat to Italy.
