Life In The Novel 'Inside Out And Back Again'

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

The Happiest Refugee is a novel that effectively portrays the importance of family relationships, emphasising the power of strong family ties. A family relationship, is a bond of love and care that is shared between almost all human civilisation. This connection acts as a pillar of strength throughout tough times, as exemplified through Anh and his family’s journey to Australia. The incorporation of anecdotes throughout the novel allowed Anh to pin point specific events in his life and discuss it in a short amusing story. He was able to use this technique to further value the importance of family relationship. This is reflected from the following example; at the age of thirteen, Anh’s father left him and his family due to his alcoholic problems, however a few years later the drunken father walked into the house asking where Anh’s mother was. However Anh stated “You stupid fool. You no longer have the right to order

In the book Inside Out and Back Again, Ha’s life gets flipped around, similar to most refugees. They move from place to place trying to find a safe haven. If they cannot find a new home they lose hope. Their lives turn back to normal again because they feel accepted and welcome in a new country; therefore, resembling the “back again” in the title. A refugee’s experience becomes an “Inside Out” world because they leave home, lose hope and live a better life.

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

Have you ever meet a refuge or know someone who escaped their country because of war? When refugees flee their home they need to stay in refugee camps where they get food and shelter but they can't stay there for ever. Refugees go thru many things when they come to America, one thing is they don't know english and they struggle to communicate. Another thing is that the kids might get bullied because they come from another place or of there religion. Ha life is similar to the universal:Refugees life because she was a refugee and she got bullied in school because where she came from. Ha’s life and the universal:Refugees life have been affected wich that make there life inside out.

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.

But this all changed when a tragedy strikes and her life begins to turn “inside out”. Lives of refugees turn “inside out” when they are forced to flee and find a new home. Refugees have to pack up and leave everything. Where they made so many memories and likely where they grew up. When refugees have to find a different home it only worsens, because they have to adapt to a new life and culture, and find a new everything.

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.

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.

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.

In 1975-1976 the story of inside out and back again was told, a young 10-year-old girl by the name of Ha wrote about her experience as a refugee and her experience as a Vietnam and an American resident. She experienced a lot on her trip and some of it changed her it developed her into who she is now and who her family is now.

Consider the meaning of the novel’s title, Inside Out & Back Again. How does this title relate to the universal refugee experience of fleeing and finding home, and in what ways is Ha’s experience a specific example of this universal experience? It's not always easy to start over. In the novel “Inside Out & Back Again” by Thanhha Lai.

Ha and many other refugees will have many moments that will make them remember their old home. This made Ha feel good about herself when she did this, Ha says “I know pink boy will get me, but right now I feel smart” (Lai 185). She feels smart because she found out a way that pink boy won’t bully her after school. It reminds her when she would go to the food market and get smaller proportions of everything so she could get a snack. Next is when a refugee is feeling good, “...don’t know where Bosnia is but they’re really nice and try to help”(). One refugee that went to Bosnia was having a good time there because the people were nice and trying to help. Also Ha gets a papaya for a present, Ha said “Not the same, but not bad at all” (Lai 234).

She must flee and start anew in a new country with a new life and facing the challenges of new traditions and beliefs. Many real world refugees, just like Ha must face the changes of fleeing their countries and starting anew from almost nothing. According to the information text authors,“Ana Marie Fantino and Alice Colak” they state that “ They must act as cultural brokers for those parent, changing their beliefs to help them adapt to their new circumstances.” This is showing that refugees when they flee are facing cultural change when the move to a new country. They might have to try and blend in and try to be accepted by their peers and their neighbors.

Imagine a country plagued with war. A mother trying to support her children, and all of their needs. A young boy working endlessly day and night to try and help out his family. A young girl performing many of the duties as mother of the house in order to help keep things in the household under control. These people then flee to countries of asylum in an attempt to escape warfare. In the novel Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, a young girl named Ha, along with her family are living in Vietnam during wartime. Ha is just ten years old as she realizes everything going on around her. As the war reaches her hometown of Saigon, Ha and her family make the decision to flee in order to save themselves of the communists in North Vietnam. Ha was