Going To School As A Refugee

Thanhha Lai wrote a novel called “Inside Out & Back Again” which is about a little girl and her family in Vietnam, the little girl is named Ha. Ha and her family are in the city of saigon, the story takes place during the Vietnam war and because of the Vietnam war her and her family’s lives are turned “inside out”. But later everything comes “back again” This story relates to the universal refugee’s life because they themselves are turned “ Inside out and back again”.

In the novel “Inside out & Back Again” written by Thanhha Lai , The main character Ha flees her home due to war. Her and her family were looking for a new home trying to start a new life. Although it wasn’t easy for her to start a new life she had to learn to overcome many challenges. In the novel Ha reveals that her life is related to the refugee life even though it was unexpected. When refugees flee their home, it affects them when they leave and find a new home, it also involves affecting them when their life is turned inside out,and it demonstrates why they relate to the refugee experience.

Though they begin as scared kids and wish to be invisible, the characters in “Refugee” must become more mature to protect their families by Stepping up when times are hard and difficult to accomplish what they needed to accomplish

Ha, from the book “Inside Out and Back Again”, and the refugees from the “Children of War” and “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” articles have both faced the feeling of inside out due to challenges of bullying and discrimination. According to this quote will show you that bullying/discrimination happens to refugee and immigrants everyday “They Chase me…” (215) according to this quote bullying is taking place and Ha is telling us that she is getting chased. Also discrimination is a challenge this quote shows it “My encounter society’s Discrimination and racism” This quote shows Discrimination and racism. In addition one last quote from the inside out is “Pancake-face” (197) this shows bullying because pink boy is calling Ha Pancake-face which is very

Ha and the refugee's life is turning inside out because they were forced to leave everything behind and were forced to leave the country.Here is some quotes and what they mean from the book Inside out and BackAgain and information text Refugee: Who, Where, and why. ¨More than 14 million men, women, and children have been forced to flee their homes towns, and countries because they are afraid to stay,¨(Refugee: Who,Where, and Why by Catherine Gevert, page 9). The refugees fled their homes to get out of

Refugees are common everyday people, that are forced to flee their home because they are trying to get away from the political problems, war, religious persecution, and for many other reasons. While fleeing home refugees are turned “inside out” because they leave love one’s behind, jobs, memories, and even their culture. When refugees turn “back again” they start their lives all over and learn a new language, do different jobs, and live in different environments. In the novel “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, Ha is a 10 year-old girl, that her life has turned “inside out” like many refugees, while she is fleeing home because she left behind her culture and lifestyle. However, after Ha got to Alabama she starts to learn a new

“This year he predicts our lives will twist inside out” (pg.4). This quote from the book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai confirms that Ha and her family…….. Many refugees like Ha overcame obstacles and found strength and resilience despite these difficulties. Additionally, in the book Inside Out and Back Again Ha and her family share their story of why they were forced to flee their home country in Vietnam and begin their journey to an unknown world in America. Ha and her family underwent the universal refugee experience of turning “inside out” and coming “back again”.

Have you ever wondered about ever being a refugee? Did you wonder what a refugee even is? Well a refugee is a person whom is forced to leave from there home and part of country to a new country where everything is different. This is why I will show you in the book Inside Out And Back Again I am going talk about Ha.Ha was a ten year old girl who did not know no better how to act most of the time or be polite she was rude to the girl sitting next to her before the war in her town. Ha was pinching her and bullying her.Also she was being very sneaky before she left her country.The way she was being sneaky is that she less pork so she could get sugary dough balls.Refugee lives are turning inside out and back again with the example of Ha I will show you quotes and the reasoning.

Do you know what Refugees are what they do how they live and how they survive. Refugees are people that have to leave there home all because of war, they have to leave and find new ones far away. Before war happened in Vietnam Ha was different she was sneaky because when she went to get groceries she would by fried dough for herself, and she was mean because when she would hide her brothers sandals when she got mad at them. The title of the book makes you wonder a little by the words inside out and back again, the author Thanhha Lai had a good idea for making this book for a history lesson. Refugees like Ha and her family turn back again when they find better home like Ha she stared understanding more.

This essay is about the universal refugee experience and the hardships that they have to go through on their journey. Ha from Inside Out and Back Again and other refugees from the article “Children of War” all struggle with the unsettling feeling of being inside out because they no longer own the things that mean the most to them. Ha and the other refugees all encounter similar curiosities of overcoming the finding of that back again peaceful consciousness in the “new world” that they are living in .

More than half the refugees around the globe are under the age of 18, even though children make up 31 percent of the world’s population. Refugees are people who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disasters. The stories that will be covered in this essay are called “The Teacher Who Changed My Life,” by Nicholas Gage and the second novel is “Letter to a Young Refugee from Another,” by Andrew Lam. These stories have many differences between each other but they both left their country to America. What if you had to flee your country?

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.

Throughout, history people, and families have been forced to leave there country. Some, like Dana,run from war.Other families and children leave because of disease,or a natural disasters.One day there was a war in Dana’s country. Her and her family lived in whole for along time. She lived a normal life as a child until the war. One day they managed to escape the war and leave the country making them refugees. They went to Lebanon desperately needing food, supplies, and medical care.one struggle is that Dana and her family now live in a very small garage. Another struggle is that they only have water but no heat and it is very cold over there. Her father has a couple of jobs but the good paying ones are hard to find.

Most refugees, like Ha, suffer from challenges that give them a sense of feeling inside out such as discrimination or bullying. Pink boy said, “...She should be a pancake, she has a pancake-face.” (Lai, 197) All of the kids are calling Ha names and pulling her hair and being mean to her. All refugees, especially children, “May encounter society’s discrimination & racism.” (Fantino) All of these refugees may be discriminated for how they look and what they do. Ha told her teacher that, “I’m hiding during lunch in the bathroom.” (Lai, 160) Ha is hiding in the bathroom because she doesn’t know where to sit. Most refugees suffer from discrimination and bullying, which doesn’t help their transition into a new world.

What is the contextual and relational nature of the students’ identity in the refugees’ schools?