Do you realise how good we have it in america? Kids and adults that live in devastated countries have to leave and find a better home. A refugee is a person who flees their country to go to another country because of war or just if their country is not providing for them. Ha is the character in the book Inside Out and Back Again By Thanhha Lai. She is a stubborn ten year old girl that lives with her mom and three brothers Quang,Vu and Khoi. Her dad left for the war and has not returned. Her mom is sad all the time because her husband has not returned. Ha does not like her brothers because they pick on her. Refugee children’s lives turn inside out and back again when they go through something devastating in their lives and have to flee their country then when they get to their new home they quickly make friends and adapt to their new environment. …show more content…
Some countries go through and kill people that do not follow their ways, according to “Refugee Transitions” “Thus they initiated a ethnic cleansing program,”(Gurung 4). Refugees have to leave their homeland because their country is either war torn or they cannot keep them in a safe environment. According to Lai “ All above us bombs pierce the sky, red and green flares explode like fireworks, ( Lai 66). Ha has to give up her papaya tree that symbolises hope, according to the book, “Brother Vu wants to cut it down saying it’s better than letting the communist have it,” (Lai 60). They have to leave their home because war is getting closer and they have to leave something behind and she left her hope in saigon with her papaya
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 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”.
All refugees share similar experiences when adjusting to their new way of life. A refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. When they have to move to a new country, they may not know the language. So that is an obstacle for them, learning the new language is very difficult. They also have to cope with the things they no longer have and the different culture. They have to get used to this new place and find their own new normal. In the book Inside Out and Back Again Ha and her family have to deal with all the obstacles that come with becoming a refugee.
The book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is placed in Vietnam and America during the Vietnam war, and the main character is Ha. Other characters are Pam, Steven, and Pink Boy. Ha had to leave Vietnam because of the dangers from the war, and ends up on a boat to America. She has become a refugee and is given to a host family in Alabama and is given the challenges of learning english, making friends, and dealing with bullies. Ha is a refugee in the novel, and refugees can come from all over the world and for many different reasons.
The life of refugees is rougher than you think. Ha is the main character in the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai. Ha is just a 10 year old girl who lived in Saigon, South Vietnam. Ha lived when the Vietnam war was still going on. Her family was poor and going through bad times. Ha´s and the refugee's life will turn Inside out then turn back again.
There are approximately 65.6 million refugees in the world and they are probably abandoned or friendless, because their friends either leave the country or are left behind. Sometimes refugees wish they could stayed in their country, watching the war, rather than being at a safe place, but without friends, (Brice). Ha is the main character in the book, Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai and is ten years-old. Because of the war, Ha’s best friend, Titi, left her to go to a safer place. Ha is always lonely at her new school, to the point where she would rather be in the war, than being safe too. Refugee children, like Ha, sense the feeling of loneliness and don’t fit in, until they meet people who assist them and make them connect
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.
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.
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 .
Ha’s life is turned inside out when the war is coming near her home, which leads to her family moving to America. The experience that Ha is going through is similar to what refugees have to go through. “Refugees are every day who are forced to flee their homes because they are afraid to stay in their home country” (Model Essay). Articles like, “Children of War,” and “Refugees: Who, Where, Why,” explain what refugee children have to go through when they are forced to leave their homes. Before Ha left her home, she was a playful, careless, easy-going girl, and selfish.
Analogously to Syrian refugees, Hà is an example of the universal refugee experience since both are separated from a family member. According to, “The Future of Syria” the author Natalia Dorfman states, “Tens of thousands of displaced children in Jordan and Lebanon are growing up without their fathers”(Dorfman 1). Plenty of Syrian children are forced to live their lives while being separated from a family member. Conveying the idea that being separated from a family member is a universal refugee experience. Mutually, in the poem entitled, “Missing in Action” from Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai the character Ha states, “father left home / on a navy mission / on this day / nine years ago / when I was almost one. / He was captured”(Lai
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
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.
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.
‘The Happiest Refugee’ discusses various concepts including the effects of war, the trauma that refugees experience, their desire to contribute to society and our negative attitudes towards them. After the war, South Vietnamese soldiers and their families were captured by the North Vietnamese Communists and held in labour camps. Some of these prisoners were eventually released (after 1976), however, they had no right to education, employment or government supplied food rations. If Ahn had not left this oppressive environment, he would have grown up in extreme poverty and would be a very different person due to the trauma that