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
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).
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.
There are millions and millions of refugees around the world, but all of their stories might be different. The essay and poem “Letter to a Young Refugee from Another” by Andrew Lam and “Song of P’eng-ya” by Tu Fu tell a story about the author’s experiences as a refugee; the two of them were in slightly different situations. The authors talk about their experiences in their writing, and both have their message to tell the readers. Adam Lam’s essay “Letter to a Young Refugee from Another” is about the author’s experience in a refugee camp at a young age. He also gives us advice on how to survive as a refugee.
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.
"Inside Out and Back Again" written by Thannha Lai, about her life experiences' published in 2011, written in a collection of poems. " Inside Out and Back Again" follows a young girl named Ha and her family of refugees as they escape Saigon in April 1975 and find refuge on an overloaded naval ship. The family eventually finds their way to a tent city in Guam, and later to a town in Alabama. After reading "Inside Out and Back Again" from my personal experiences' I feel that this book teaches us that, The storms and struggles in our lives either make us or break us, but, In this case, it made Ha's family stronger.
Anh Do’s “The Happiest Refugee” follows Anh’s journey throughout
The Vietnam War in the late 1970s lead many of refugees including children attempting to attain better living condition relative to those in war-torn Vietnam. Escaping from a war torn nation and arriving to America meant getting accustomed to the much different western culture, while simultaneously facing the challenge of retaining your traditions. Le Thi Diem Thuy presents the story, “The Gangster We Are All Looking For,” to demonstrate her struggle as a migrant. Thuy discusses through her first- hand experiences the arduous struggle that was assimilating into American culture.
Kids of Kabul is a book by Deborah Ellis about the kids of Afghanistan and their struggle of living there. Majority of them are teens with little to no family or children who are forgotten.. The experiences they have are including (but not limited to) dead parents, parents who have abandoned their child, and abusive parents; Also, there are a few kids who have health and mental issues. Take Shyah for an example, Shyah is a 14-year-old girl from Parwan, Province whose legs have been severely damaged by her father and her step-mother. “I was six months old when my legs went all wrong …
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
“When you tell a story, you give it out to the world and whoever listens becomes a part of that story.” Ishmael Beah, raised a war child and now a published author, is very aware of the impact that words can have. Beah published his memoir in 2007, and with it relays the power of stories to influence people. Thus, stories are significant in A Long Way Gone, as they are used to symbolize hope, introduce a new perspective for the reader, and reflect the memoir’s themes. Throughout Beah’s life as a refugee and war child, stories became an anchor for him.
Refugees and immigrants' lives are turned inside out and back again when they are forced to flee their homes. They have to leave due to war, persecution, or natural disasters. This happened to a Vietnamese girl named Ha. Ha was forced to leave her country because of a war between South and North Vietnam.
Have you ever wonder what your life will be like when you have a chance to live in a different country other than you motherland? There are many challenges and obstacles people usually face when they start their new life in a new country. Moreover, people can totally change their life in different way due to their change in cultural environmental. The same situation has been demonstrated in the novel “The Gangster We Are All Looking For” by Le Thi Thuy Diem, an immigrant from Vietnam who left their motherland for freedom and new life. The novel “The Gangster We Are All Looking For” is a narrative fiction novel in which it describes the important of cultural differences, consequences of war and the maturity of the author.
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 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.
