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If you were given the option to live in the life of a refugee for 1 day would you take it? Refugee’s are forced out of their countries due tragic disasters or war. Away from their friends, family, hometowns, and memories. Refugee’s live turn in a 360 by turning “inside out and back again” A young girl named Ha becomes a refugee, showing people how her life was in a constant struggle as she turned from a normal girl in Saigon into a refugee moving to the United States, with a language barrier and poverty toppling over her and her family. Refugee’s lives like Ha are in a war with their own life until they are able to turn it back around for the better. Ha before she flees her home is a bratty and ungrateful type of a young child. She was rebellious …show more content…
In the novel “Inside out and back again” it states “A brick flies through the window with a note that brother Quang refuses to translate.” The fact that they have bricks flying their their windows is terrifying. Also that people are writing notes to them that are so horrible their brother refuses to translate it. Therefore they are stuck in wonder to know what the people are saying and if they should be alarmed about it which is caused due to them not being able to speak the language which is called a language barrier. In the text it states ““Without lights, without cooking, without bathrooms.” The trip from Saigon to America was no Cruise for Ha and her family. The did not even have the simple resources we use in their everyday life. The people couldn’t just get up to use the restroom or even go and cook for themselves when they were hungry. They couldn’t even turn on the lights because their was no lights. Lastly, in the text it states ““One clump of rice, small, medium, or large according to size” Every single person got one clump of rice according to you size and that was just for the day. That was what you got as your meal. The amount of resources needed for everyday life was very slim. People were starving and so thankful when they got that one clump of rice but to take a small ounce of the hunger

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