Inside Out And Back Again Analysis

I read this book in high school, and I really enjoyed it. After we were finishing reading the book we had a guest speaker who was a Vietnam war vet come into our class and speak on different parts of the book. I picked this short story to do my paper on because I felt like I had the most connection to this story because of my prior knowledge from reading the book. I do think I am getting some parts confused with the short story and the book. I know when I read the book in high school some chapters were very dull and boring but others were exciting and interesting. After reading the short story it was just a refreshment of the interesting things that happened in the book.

She soon got involved in the wrong crowd which resulted in her skipping curfew and smoking cigarettes. Not only was she doing those things but she withdrew from her family as well . A couple months into the camp she soon stopped talking to her brother and mother. These are all signs of depression. If the family weren't placed in these camps they wouldn't have gone through all these struggles. The families relationships between one another and their mental health would have still been intact . The internment camps, in various different ways, affected thousands of Japanese-American families across the nation. From broken homes to low self-esteem, one could say the internment camps were meant to break these Japanese americans down . They made these people feel inhuman which resulted in them acting out of character. This novel gives you insight of just one; of many, families that were affected by this act of war. The girl, for example truly acted out of character . She went from being a well-behaved girl to being in a constant state of rebellion with her new friends she had made in the internment camps. The girl, unlike the boy having to step up and be the man of the house, she decided to mentally withdraw and let the situation take control of her, rather than her taking control of the situation. Putting the girl in the internment camp resulted in her acting out and showing minor signs of depression. The Girl, Boy, Mother and Father suffered in various ways that

But was it for the best or for the worst ? The girl had much insight and could cope with almost anything, a 10 year old with a family and a home, a smart young lady who was unimpeachable, given the options to make her own decision she did so. While she did have her insecurities she would put them aside, and the contempt feeling went away. While in the kitchen, the girl walks in and drinks her water, knowing it was time for her piano lessons, she sits ¨Do i have to? {the woman thought for a moment} No, she said, only if you want to. Tell me i have to.¨[pg.16] When the girl wants her mother to tell her what to do, this symbolizes both the relationship they have and how the girl is still a child that wants reinsurance and is still dependent on her. Though during the time they were in the internment camp many things had changed her. The girl had became both reckless and careless, making impulsive decisions without thinking of the after effects or consequences. When she was in the internment camp, the girl became irresponsible and stop caring about everything “ In the morning she did not return until long after dark. She was always in a rush now...she ate all her meals with her friends. Never with the boy and his mother. She smoked cigarettes.[pg.92]” When the

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. The protagonist of the novel is Ha. Her family consists, her three brother, her mother. Ha’s father was a U.S Navy troop, he went missing on duty when she was almost one which is almost ten years ago. She lived ten years in her birth country Saigon. The war then reached her home. They knew they had to flee, all the members was discussing if to flee or don’t. They made a decision to flee. The thing Ha thinks about is all the items the, “Left Behind.” Ha brothers always call her, “Mother’s tail because Ha was always three feet away from her.”

1.The message of the song is a strong protest against the Vietnam War distinguishing between the fortunate sons, who were wealthy and did not have to serve in the war and the unfortunate sons, who were poor and paid the price.

“When we first got here-all of us- we were real young and innocent… but we learned pretty damn quick” (O’Brien 93) . In the novel “The things we carried” by Tim O’Brien he shows that many young Americans lost their innocence as soon as their boots hit the ground in Vietnam. The Vietnam War took many things away from the men who walked throughout the jungles arms, legs, and innocents. One character named Mary Anne was changed dramatically with the war on how she saw things and acted in her daily life. Mary Anne changed immensely from how she came into the war and how she left.

This chapter covers the transition of Mary Anne Bell, of how she changed from being a normal, sweet teenage girl to being one of the Green Berets, filled with enthusiasm for the war and intrigued with the culture of Vietnam. This message is about how the innocence of women is consumed by the war and how once they begin to learn more about it, they are hopelessly entranced by it, far from returning to their usual selves. Rat talks about how, “Anne made you think about those girls back home, how they'll never understand any of this, not in a billion years. Try and tell them about it, they’ll just stare at you with those big round candy eyes. They won't understand zip.”(O’Brien 108), and this shows that women won’t understand what Vietnam really is like, they have to experience it themselves. Women also won’t understand the grueling mental pain that soldiers experience in the war.

Change In The Things They Carried a war novel by Tim O'Brien, we are told many short stories compiled to make a whole. I want to emphasis on the importance of the chapter "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong". In this chapter we are introduced to the character Mary Anne. She shows the changing power of Vietnam, that a sweet innocent young girl can come into this land and be forever consumed by her surroundings. The speaker show us this through character action, character description, dialogue and metaphor; this enhances the literary work by showing us that the soldiers will always be a part of Vietnam no matter how hard they try to get away from it.

America is well known and hated across the globe for its involvement in foreign conflicts and affairs. The self proclaimed police of the world, America often goes too far when it comes to its involvement overseas. Many times the outcomes of these conflicts is overlooked and the effect it will have on america and other countries. Often times the American news media and politicians will claim that America 's goal is to bring freedom and liberty to other countries. However, this is a ploy to get the public on board and in reality war is used to make politicians and corporations richer. Tim O’Brien experienced this firsthand when he was shipped off to Vietnam in 1969. When he came back he finished his education at Harvard and was inspired to write a memoir about his experiences. “If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home” tells his story as a foot soldier and the effects it had on himself and other soldiers physically, emotionally, and mentally. The books starts with O’Brien as a child playing war games and then moves to when he was drafted. In the bootcamp O’Brien had contemplated deserting but ultimately decided not to so that his family would not be disgraced. He was then sent off to Vietnam where he was placed in the Alpha company. O’Brien talks about things like his involvement in ambushes to his interactions with locals. With this piece O’Brien was trying to show the horrors of war and and how it affected the soldiers sent to fight in

In the book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, the author shows a constant topic of loss, which lead me to believe that the theme of Inside Out and Back Again is that throughout our lives, we lose people and sometimes we choose not to accept that loss, but we have to realize that the only way we can truly lose them is if we forget what they lived for. This theme was shown in Inside Out and Back Again through Ha’s memory and loss of her father and the change she experiences and people she loses when she escapes from war. In, my life this theme is shown through the loss of my grandfather and a different kind of loss I experienced when my best friend Mahru moved away to Kazakhstan.

The short story that will be discussed, evaluated, and analyzed in this paper is a very emotionally and morally challenging short story to read. Michael Meyer, author of the college text The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, states that the author of How to Tell a True War Story, Tim O’Brien, “was drafted into the Vietnam War and received a Purple Heart” (472). His experiences from the Vietnam War have stayed with him, and he writes about them in this short story. The purpose of this literary analysis is to critically analyze this short story by explaining O’Brien’s writing techniques, by discussing his intended message and how it is displayed, by providing my own reaction,

This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through their skin and bones. It

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.

With this part of the story, O’Brien is able to inject the theme of shame motivating the characters in the book. This chapter is about how the author, who is also the narrator, is drafted for the war. He runs away to the border between Canada and the United States, he stays in a motel with an old man for about a week and finds that he should go to war for his country. In the beginning it was about shame, he didn’t want to look like a coward because in truth he was scared. He was afraid to face the pressures of war, the humiliation and the fact of losing “everything”. This man was an average person who lived an average life with no problems, until he got the notice about the war, which caused the shame and fear of being seen as a bad person to come out.

She is questioning everything and saying we should help out any way we can. “Who’ll toe the line for the signal to ‘Go!’?/ Who’ll give his country a hand?” (5-6). That means, who will join the army waiting to be called into action and who will join the army and fight to help his country. She is trying to tell you because she is daring you to join because she wants the war to happen and she wants to win. The mood and tone for this poem is enthusiastic or even excited just because she was wanting the American people to go to war and die for their country. So that means she really wanted the war. “Your country is up to her neck in a fight,/ And she’s looking and calling for you.” (16-17). That is like propaganda. During that time there was a lot of that in that in the newspapers and even on doors and buildings. It was all just trying to get people to join the war and fight for their country. She was trying to get people to help the war so they win faster and easier, when in reality it is just making more innocent people