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Overcoming Refugees In Inside Out And Back Again

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Refugees experience many hardships throughout their journeys. The struggle to survive, escape and adjust are only some of the things they have to endure while escaping. In the novel, Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai, she expressed the difficulties that refugees experience while fleeing and finding a home. So far through Ha’s life, she had experienced difficulties in every place she had been to. Back in her home country, she encountered many challenges while she tried to escape and that continued in Alabama when she tried to adjust. The author conveys themes of culture, language, and bullyism to show the readers the different obstacles refugees have to overcome. In the end, even if refugees suffer with these hardships, they can overcome
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