Brief Summary Of Ha's Home

When refugees flee home, they can’t live their life like they used to. For example when He had to flee her home she had left many meaningful things. She had left her father’s things which meant a lot to her and her family because they would hope that one day he’ll come back. In the novel it states “ Mother chooses ten and burns the rest”. This quote from page 58 demonstrates that they wouldn’t live their life like they used to because they are permanently erasing memories that they had left from Ha’s dad. In addition this explains that refugees can’t live their life they used to before because it's not like being home .Another example that demonstrates that Ha was affected when she had to flee her home is not being able to eat food while they were in the ship because they weren’t able to cook anything. In the novel it states “Hard and moldy,yet chewy and sweet inside”. This quote

Families and their traditions can impact on the level of devotion and affection that ties people together, as well as how one reacts to a particular situation that may reinforce or harm his or her relationships. The notion of family belonging is an idea repeated throughout The Happiest Refugee and the analysis of various techniques makes this evident. ‘But my father treated that loss as if it were a win, and it was a lesson that stayed with me for a long time. If the worst happens, but you still celebrate coming second. There is no need to fear failure’ is a quote from page 48 that highlights the level of family belonging through the use of repetition as it is a message that reoccurs throughout the memoir. The sole idea recreated throughout the novel thoroughly

Their lives twisted inside out when they fled their home and became refugees. The entire family boarded a U.S Navy ship and headed towards hope because they were forced to flee their home. They were headed to the United States of America because someone told them it has more opportunity for her children. This journey will change Ha’s personality because of all the challenges they faced

At the river, they are given new names, and become the “Okies,” and the reality of becoming migrant laborers in California draws nearer to them. Similar to the Israelites who had to cross the Red Sea, the family is expecting a new hope and a brand-new life on the other side of the river. However, like the people fleeing Egypt, the Joad family is made to wait for their reward in California and encounter many difficulties and hardships, such as flooding, just like the Hebrews in the Exodus.

Once the family has been evacuated and are on a train to an internment camp, the daughter takes over as narrator and represents a different impression of the Japanese Americans. The

Everyone knows that once Pandora’s box is open, it is really hard to get it closed again and havoc and turmoil is released in to the world. Well, this being a similar situation, the town folk go berserk and start burning books and vandalizing the soda shop and destroying a lot of the furniture. Betty’s own friends along with some of the high school boys come after her because of her non conformity. All of this highly charged emotion which is so unpleasant in Pleasantville turns the whole town color until everyone, even the mayor turns color and society as Pleasantville is changed forever. The “bi-cultural binds” (Gunn Allen) that Betty was wearing fall off as her community- including her husband- come to terms with adopting individuality as the new norm.

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In Vietnam 1975, Ha is in the middle of a war. Like many others that have to flee their homeland, know the difficulty of finding a way out. In “Inside Out and Back Again” Ha is escaping Vietnam ( her home country) to not go under control of the North. Many of the refugees in “World of Difference Benefit Luncheon”, “ Refugees: Who, Where, why”, and “ Children of War” go through the same difficulty as Ha, leaving their home/family, going to a refugee camp to somewhere they were not familiar with, fitting into their new home and country. Paragraph II: TIQA format---Ha as she was in Vietnam.

The suffering of farmers caused them to lose money, crops, and their farm lands. Farmers have nowhere to go now that they have lost their farm land and no longer have any money. The farmers are suggesting on going to California to find work. The farmers lands will be destroyed with tractors and their houses will be tore down. Jim Casy and the Joad family go into the town to sell their belongings hoping to sell them for enough money that they can buy themselves are car to go to California. The family are in a used truck going to

Ha’s life as a refugee is a life experience is something that only the strong can go through, and her entire family made it. When refugees flee home, it is because of fear that their family will be torn apart by the war when they leave home, family, friends, memories, basically the perspective of the person is leaving what they desired. Then when they finally do find a home, (not all), they are greeted with new challenges, one of many is that acceptance in their new home, some people probably don’t want to make a living in their new home, “But life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not”. But when people turn “inside out” they feel empty inside and everything is useless, they have to start over from square one and become “back again”. When they become happy again and accept what has happened to them, so they can move forward in life. This book is mostly about a girl with her family who was in a war, so they left of fear of being torn apart by the war because they will be safer than where they are at in the moment, Saigon Vietnam, but are greeted with challenges in the Alamba U.S.A.

Ha had to leave most of her belonging behind but she did get to take one thing and she choose her doll, Ha ends up throwing her doll into the ocean so “I choose my doll, once lent to a neighbor who left it outside, where mice bit her left cheek and right thumb. I Love her more for her scars Ha only got to choose one extra thing to take with her on the boat other than her bare essentials, she took her doll it meant a lot to her it was her hope.But the other things she had to leave behind were also her hope like her papaya tree so her doll was her only hope she had at the time.The war affect people so badly people had everything and the next second they had nothing, Ha’s mother had to leave everything she had in Vietnam behind except for ten pictures so did Ha she had to leave her papaya tree behind witch gave her the most

Ha’s uncle Son, who was her father’s best friend, convinced her mother to flee South Vietnam on a navy ship headed for Guam. Each person was allowed to bring limited supplies and one item of their choice ha chose her favorite doll. The ship was very crowded and every

Adeline achieved academic excellence during her schooling years, and in a great moment of success, is elected as class president. However, her classmates decided to secretly bring the celebration to the Yen family home, Adeline faces extremely harsh consequences, that were taken out publically. While Adeline’s friends thought that it was a kind and innocent gesture to celebrate the successes of their friend, Niang thought differently. “Come here!” she screamed…She slapped (Adeline’s) face so hard that (she) almost fell. “Liar! You planned it, didn’t you, to show off our house to your penniless classmates. How dare you!...Go downstairs this minute and tell your hooligan friends to get out!” Adeline was bleeding and crying, and yet, she was forced to tell her friends to leave. Her friends had finally seen what the Yen family was really like, and this stripped Adeline of her public identity. Adeline had to mature and gain courage to return to school and see her friends after the incident, and discover that she was being sent to a boarding school in Tianjin. Due to this event, Adeline’s maturity increased to a great extent because her family secret was revealed, and she had to face the consequences that her parents had in store for

Tabitha is a high school girl with her four best friends. Tabitha and her friends all believe in the same thing, which is, wearing purity rings for a symbol of the virginity until marriage pledge. In this book, Tabitha has to make several choices and choose how to overcome all the difficult situations. Tabitha faces several man vs. man conflicts, which are external struggles between two or more individuals. First, Tabitha meets a boy named Jake at a youth group event. When they meet, right away they are very attracted to each other. They then go outside to have a little talk and Jake ends up kissing her and asking her out on a date. Secondly, one of Tabitha’s friends, Cara, broke the promise about waiting till marriage. Cara drags Tabitha into

I must begin this text confessing that I always thought this song, which has been accompanying me practically from birth, is too hackneyed. I think you all know it, the “Hava Nagila” we have danced and sung hundreds of times at weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and other celebrations all over the world. Yes, if there’s one thing that softens the nuisance of (always) feeling like a foreigner is the real possibility of finding other Jews anywhere in the world — in some places more than in others — and share jokes and songs with them without further delay.