Refugees In Thanhha Lai's Inside Out And Back Again

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.

Belonging in society is challenging for specific groups of people and they can be demoralised by this greatly and that can have a huge effect on their working life or social life but after being accepted or being resilient, their life can become much better. In The Happiest Refugee Anh Do overcomes exclusion is various ways after he has fled from his own country to Australia. Sometimes Anh is affected by the ostracisation by some people in the new community that he has become a part of in Australia.

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

Refugees are people who are forced to leave their home due to war, or natural disasters and try to start over by fleeing to a new country.Refugees are going through a lot, fleeing their homes, and having their lives turned inside out. For lots of families who are fleeing their country due to war or a natural disaster, it’s hard for them to adapt to their new lifestyle, learning a new language, new education, and bullies. Fleeing to America gives the refugees a fresh start in life, helps them to start over and more opportunities than they had in the country they fled from. “Children of War” “My graduation is next year, so I have to think about college...America is giving us a better future than we could have in Bosnia”(Brice-26).

‘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

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.

Ha and the refugees that are immigrating to the U.S. where they are all hoping to flee from the war back home in Vietnam, the refugees do not know that they will encounter many challenges such as discrimination and bullying along the way to the american dream.Ha is being bullied at school and she claims that, “They pulled my arm hair, they threw rocks at me, they promised to stomp on my chest.”Lai, (151).Furthermore this explains how Ha is being bullied because she is different from the other children in the U.S. the author uses the example that they threw rocks at me to explain what they did to her. Furthermore the pilgrims had to go through a lot, “They had fled to America because of religious persecution in their homeland”Gevert (2). This

Ha from Inside Out and Back Again and other refugees from the article “Children of War” all experience the same upsetting feeling of being inside out because they have lost everything familiar to them. One way that they feel inside out because of the loss of their possessions is in the poem “Last Respects” it states, “Brother Khoi nods and I smile, but I regret not having my doll as soon as the white bundle sinks into the sea.” (Lai 86). Ha goes through a struggle when she gives up her doll, the one possession that she was allowed to take with her as they were leaving, to help her brother and give him comfort for the loss his chick. Another way that represents the universal refugee experience of feeling inside out because of loosing everything is that in “Children of War” it explains, “Everything completely changed. One minute we had everything, then we had nothing.” (Brice). Plainly it is stated that the people in the Bosnia at that

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.

‘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. The second Indochina war occurred because the communist state of North Vietnam wanted political control over South Vietnam. Between 1955 and 1973, the USA was involved in South Vietnam 's defensive effort. In 1973 however, the US army left because too much money was being invested into the war and defensive attempts proved futile. As a result, South Vietnam was left completely defenceless. 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

“Today Our cowboy brings a paper bucket of chicken,skin crispy and golden .Brother Quang forces a swallow before explaining we are used to fresh chicken ” (120) This shows how Refugees turn inside out because Ha and her family must adapt to the food they have in their new home. Their life is turned inside out because the food they are used to from Vietnam is not in Alabama. “We wait and wait but mother says a possible widow,three boys ,and a pouty girl makes too huge a family by American standards.” This shows that Ha’s and her family's life has turned inside out because they must try to find a sponsor to get to America. In the result of their family being too big, it will be a challenge to be sponsored.“Both refugee and immigrant children may encounter society's discrimination and racism.”This text shows that refugee’s life are turned inside out . When refugees go to their new home , most times they aren’t accepted for who they are. They are usually discriminated because they don’t know how to speak the language of their new

Guilt that derives from the fact our country is not doing more to aide in the refugee crisis. Likewise, this article provokes me to ask the question: why are these images not shown more often in western media? I feel that currently our media is cluttered with useless information regarding inherently trivial stories, none of which compare to the struggles of not only children, but also millions of people. The refugee problem is currently one that I feel is ignored by many for various reasons. However, this article brings to light the horrors that are currently occurring and I feel it should be seen by more people, as the lives of refugees are no less than our own. Even though politicians make out refugees, and even immigrants, to be murderous extremists, the reality is most are nonviolent, normal families seeking a home, something often taken for granted by those in western cultures. The Syrian refugee crisis is, in my opinion, the most overlooked problem in recent history, and demonstrates in inherent issue in our society- we as a culture view these lives as less than our own. Overall, I feel this article does a thorough job of emotionally evoking readers and impacting their views on Syrian refugees and the lives they are forced to

intergenerational stress. Intergenerational stress created family conflict as children moved between their new culture in school and their family's native culture at home. However, the articles states that all refugees encounter a crisis of identity when they leave behind their communities, lifestyles, livelihoods, and ancestral places of worship. It is said that refugee teens may not have the traditional adult support on which to rely as they search for a sense of self, because adults with whom they live may be undergoing a similar search for self in their new host country. Since adults are anxious about finding jobs and housing and managing their own grief and cultural adjustment, which means they are unable to provide

The family of refugees stood outside the United States boundary, hopeful for a new life even if they were immersed in a people they did not know, a culture they were not comfortable in, and a language they could not speak. They knew, that regardless of these factors, that this life would still be much better than one back in Syria in which they were worried for their lives, wondering whether they would live to see the next day. As they waited to be given permission to enter, they sat down and started talking in their native language. People around them looked at them askance and immediately began talking to themselves about these newcomers and making judgements about their appearance and culture. When they were called, they were asked what

From the beginning of time mothers and motherhood has been seen as a structure of comfort, safety, and familiarity. Due to the way society has conditioned people to think the mother is usually the sole nurturer and provides family a place to ground themselves whenever life begins to shift. In times of extreme strife and change the one thing that a person would want to stay constant is the comforts of family and the mother figure would be the one who provides that comfort. Refugees in particular experience drastic changes and shifts in lifestyle in a short amount of time. Picking up and leaving everything is extremely hard and if a person is too attached to their material possessions then they would feel as though they are leaving a part of them behind. That's why the mother’s role of helping their child to have a sense of self is so crucial i navigating refugeehood. Therefore, when understanding refugee’s adaptability and how they view themselves and how society views, it is important to understand the complex relationships they develop with their mothers. Through dissecting and analyzing the relationships refugees have with their mothers one will be better able to understand how large of a role subjectivity plays on their lives.