Inside Out And Back Again Analysis

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”.

Did you know that according to the Un refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends study found that 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2016- a total bigger than the population of the united kingdom and about 300,000 more than last year. ? Its tragic that this is true but this is what the world has came to.In the text Going to School as a Refugee the main issue for SB was he couldn't speak the language so he was always lost in school and always made fun of for being different than everyone else. Every refugee struggles with this problem because they flee their country to different one with a different language. When war comes to their village some of their family members die because if they dont agree with whats going on the communists or the army will kill them and move on. Since they don't know how to speak the language they can't make friends so they are always lonely, the only people they can talk to is other refugees that speak their language or their family. In the book Inside out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai the main character is a 10 year old girl named Ha. Since the war came to her village she had to put her childhood aside and be a grownup. She couldn't be picky because the she got were very limited because she wasn't rich her dad was captured and never came home. Like Ha, refugees are turned “inside out” when the war is coming to their village which means they have to flee their country and it means that they have to restart their

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.

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.

In the novel Inside out and Back Again by: Lai, in 1975 in Vietnam, Ha the main character faces some challenges. Ha expresses some traits while being in Vietnam, she also gets turned inside out when she has to flee Vietnam and she gets turned inside out when she starts to settle in Alabama. Ha’s story is compared to other refugees because she and other refugees had to leave their country because of war and had to try and get out safe. Ha’s traits while she was in Vietnam were, sad and selfish.

Refugees are people who are coerced to flee their homes, for fear of persecution. There are many reasons that they need to flee including race, religion, nationality and political opinion.(Gevert). Ha was forced to flee Saigon and had to leave her old life behind, because of their view on communism. This meant Ha would have to go to a new school with new people, like many other refugees around the world. Ha like many other refugees have to adjust to their new schools, while having no friends to back them up from society's racism. Refugee children have trouble adjusting to their schools and friend groups, due to the racism in many communities, but are eventually able to reconstruct, like Ha in the novel Inside Out and Back Again.

The title of the novel Inside Out & Back Again relates to the main character’s, Ha’s experiences, and the universal refugee experience; they feel

Inside Out is a Disney-Pixar film in which a girl, Riley Anderson has her entire world flipped upside down when her father’s job forces them to relocate from Minnesota to San Francisco. Disney worked with scientists to make this as realistic as possible, it is still readerly. There is no room for interpretation of the movie, even if someone noticed something new about it each time they watched, it would still be the same. Regardless of it’s readerly nature, I enjoyed this movie more compared to other Disney movies that are the run of the mill love story.

How would it feel for you to be robbed, but not only be robbed, lose everything, then go to a new country? This sounds terrible and depressing right? Would you want your life going inside out then years later have it slowly morph into a life where you are a refugee in America? Well guess what? In Vietnam this happened to so many people. This was a common thing for a refugee. In the article “Children of War” written by Author Brice and the novel Inside Out and Back Again written by Thanhha Lai, they show examples of different people facing the refugee experience.

Imagine, being insulted wherever you go, Imagine having to live with 8 families in one small house. This is the daily life of a girl named Ru a refugee that escaped Vietnam during the war. In the novel, Ru by Kim Thuy set in the 1950s. Thuy demonstrates how being a Vietnamese refugee disrupts many lives, in particular, Ru’s life. Throughout her life, she was forced to endure countless conflicts as a result of being a minority in Vietnam, to Malaysia where she survived, until she reached Montreal, Quebec. During the Vietnamese communism war, she seems to flourishes and succeeds in a family with financial struggles as she strives to secure a safe home in Quebec. Due to the war that exiled her from her from Saigon in South Vietnam. She makes a

Refugees are people forced to leave their homes to find refuge in a new and unfamiliar country do to problems back home. They affected greatly do to the changes and is witnessed all around the world by many different people. The universal refugees experience everything that has forced them to leave from war, to discrimination, or to other problems in there home that makes them leave their countries. In the novel Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, it talks about a young refugee’s life that turned inside out do to have to leave her county and resettle in the United States starting a new life with her family. In this situation Ha lives like a universal refugee because as Ha is going through her journey of being a refugee as she is forced

“This year he predicts that our lives will twist inside out.” ( Lai 4) Many children and adults every year have to deal with the ‘push-and-pull’ forces of home and school. These refugees have to try to make the most of their new lives. Ha’s experience of being a refugee in the novel Inside Out and Back Again is similar to the universal experience because she struggled with schooling, trying to put her life back together and dealing with lose.

Both the movies, Inside Out and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind focus heavily on memory and the impact that memory has on one's life. The movie Inside Out focuses on how memories and the emotions attached to them can shape us and a our personalities. The movie depicts in animated form the basics of memory, short term memory, long term memory and forgetting. It as shows the idea of mood congruent effect. Mood congruent effect is the idea that you remember memories that were encoded when you were in that same mood easier than when you are in a different mood.

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.

Can refugees relate to other refugees by experience ? Refugees can relate to each other because they suffer worldwide, they are marked emotionally and or sometimes physically. Refugees relate, but even though their reasons for fleeing aren’t the same they both suffer throughout their journey leaving and finding home in a new country. Apart from fleeing their home refugees relocate in a foreign country where they often struggle with the language barrier and sometimes even suffer from grief of leaving a loved one behind. Refugees even struggle in the country they are relocated. They are often discriminated by civilians and kids are sometimes bullied in school. In the novel “ Inside Out and Back Again” it is about a young girl Ha whose life is