Inside Out & Back Again

It is extremely difficult for Ha’s family to leave Vietnam because this is their home. First of all,”How can we scramble away like rats,without honor…”(44). If Ha’s family leaves Vietnam and there home doesn’t end up getting destroyed will they have enough money to get back to Vietnam. If it does get destroyed, will they be able to rebuild their life. Second, “No matter what Mother decides, we are not to leave…”(46). Brother Khoi wants to stay home and protect his chick and Ha wants to protect her papaya tree. Her tree is part of her.Lastly, “What if Father returns…”(44). If Ha’s dad returns and his family is gone, what will he do. Ha’s family have a very difficult choice to either leave or stay in

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.

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

Kai and Faye adopted 3 children, a boy a two girls. I seems like they were from Vietnam because she say they had small faces and large dark eyes full of fear. It was noticeable the tragedies of war, death and poverty in their eyes. Time passed and everything seem to be working out, the kid’s faces are full of joy as well as Kai’s eyes. Faye deeply inside knew that she was everything to Kai, “To hi, she was the only woman, beautiful, complete, whole (38).”

Ha and her family were one of the many people who had to go through the process of leaving without knowing their future.“Saigon is gone,” (Lai,67) Ha and her family have to leave the country due to communists which leads them to having to move to the U.S. and start a whole new life.“Typically, immigrants can, at least, envision the possibility of returning to their countries; most refugees cannot.” (Butterfield, Fox) Many people have to leave their homes/ countries for many reasons and only some people are lucky enough to return. “Should we leave our home?”(Lai,44) Ha and her family have to make a really hard decision on if they should leave or not and without knowing what's ahead of them. Ha and her family have to leave the country due to

I think that the opportunity for Ha and her family to stay in Saigon is going to come more and more difficult and the author's word choice in the writings make us feel hopelessness and sadness.. For example, when “...the Communists crashed their tanks...planted a flag with one huge star.” (Lai 69) This really told the southern Vietnamese that this country no longer belonged to them but had been taken over. The words like “Crashed” and “Planted”really create an image of someone being a boss and taking control of a certain area. This has much in common of when the North Vietnamese invaded and took over the American Embassy. Additionally, when Brother Vu says ,”...it’s better than letting the communists have it.” (60) Ha’s family knows that this option is lesser of two evils and the phrase “better than letting the communists have it” really sets a tone that the communists are going to take everything that families have and this makes us feel sadness and sorrow for their family. Finally, when the “Kirks military mission was to shoot down and North Vietnamese planes...stop the U.S. Marine helicopter, that evacuated people…”(Shapiro Paragraph Page 2

They had to move Alabama they is a war and they were forced to move.the father was a soldier.

This memory book is about a young Vietnamese, American teen name Trung that grew up in America for the past 13 years, hoping to find a better way to settle things down soon after he graduates from High School. He grew up in a house of 2 siblings, an older brother, and sister which is now living life to their full potential. Trung is a boy that is loved by many of those whom meet him. People mistaken him for being a cranky person, but truly he’s just going through ups and downs. He has good intentions, but just bad moods all the time. Although he was not the brightest kid growing up, he still has the ambition to make a positive change in his work ethic by working hard in school, and he hopes that some day he will eventually succeed in life and

Ha is a 10 year old girl who used to live with her mother and her three older brothers in Saigon.Then the vietnam war reached saigon,and Ha’s family had to move to Alabama.Moving to Alabama really changes Ha’s dynamic character by making her stronger and more hopeful

Imagine if you were five again living and growing up in the 1960’s-1990’s. Well Loung ung didn't think anything like what she went through would happen but it did just when she was five. I have been reading “First they killed my father” by Loung Ung. This book is a non fiction book. It takes place when there was a war,This year happened to be in the time period of 19565’s to the 1980’s. The little girl named Loung was just five years old. Mrs.Ung has had many different things that had happened in her life.

During the Vietnam War, they must leave their homeland and escape to America to save their lives. Besides the homeland, the Vietnamese also lose their families, including the father who died in the re-education camp “they took his daddy away” (31,Show and Tell), the ancestors “oh ancestors of eight generations back to the Chink dynasty”(130,Yacht People), and the mother and wife who is sacrificed for food when fleeing on the boat“ his crew killed his wife ”,”ate their flesh and drank their blood in order to survive”(87,Hunger). There are diverse tragic ways in which they lose their important families member that shows indelible mark made by losing family. Furthermore,

Tim O’Brien undertakes an archetypal quest for understanding and closure when he takes his ten-year-old daughter, Kathleen, on a trip to Vietnam. While they did go to a few tourist spots for her sake, O’Brien did not plan for this to be a pleasure trip. He takes his daughter along to try to help her understand some of his past, but Kathleen is an outsider to the idea of war and does not understand the reason behind her father wanting to go to a field in the middle of Vietnam to look back on his experiences. The reader sees the ignorance of the common people through Kathleen’s childish questions and views such as her wondering “why everybody was so mad at everybody else.”

Ha and her family are on board the ship for weeks, sailing toward Thailand. Food and water are scarce, but the people on board are cautiously hopeful about what could happen next. Ha and her siblings use the time to practice their English. Salvation appears in the form of an American naval vessel, which distributes food and supplies, and tows the boat to Guam where a refugee camp has been established. There, Ha learns about how most of the refugees are either going to France, Canada, or the United States. Ha and her family decide to travel to the United States. They are sponsored by a Southern farmer named Mr. Johnston, who helps the family to settle in Alabama and looks after their interests. Ha’s mother insists they assimilate into American society as quickly as possible, shutting out their old lives

A few months had past, then realizing she felt no real love towards her husband, consequently suggested a divorce which was almost forbidden and harshly shamed upon in the vietnamese culture. A divorce was finally processed, it was then that her daughter started to get severely ill. Diagnosed with low platelets and no cure, her daughter continuously experienced uncontrollable bleeding, through the ears, mouth, and nose. Stressed about the condition of her daughter’s health and horrified of the kind of life they would have when the war ended and the country fell under the communist regime. Due to the revealing turnout of the war she sold all of her assets and gained the determination to flee the country. With her daughter in her arms, she managed to purchase a plain ticket, eighteen hours later they landed in Oakland California. America filled with possibilities and technological advancements, after numerous doctor visits her daughter became healthy and well once again. Both mother and daughter live closely by each other in the city of Westminster, California. This war changed not only Chau’s entire life but also her daughter’s life as

In the novel “In Country” by Bobbie Ann Mason, we find the story of a young girl who struggles in life to find out about her father and the history of the Vietnam War. Throughout the book, the reader finds out that this girl, Sam Hughes, is not your every day teenager. She is faced with the responsibility of dealing with her unmotivated uncle and a boyfriend she really doesn’t care for anymore. She’s confronted with the fact that she really knows nothing about her father and the War he took part in. All of the people she knows who were involved in Vietnam have been touched somehow by the war. What are some of the things she learns from these people? What does she find out about herself and about the father she has