The novel Inside Out and Back Again is about a girl and her family from Vietnam In 1975 when North Vietnam is about to invade South Vietnam to take control over South Vietnam. The family in this story include three brothers a mother and Ha. Ha’s family is later evacuated because if the family stayed then they would have died. Ha, and her family is then sponsored by a cowboy who lives in Alabama. The cowboy teaches the family what to do in the United States like jobs and schools, Ha doesn’t like the fact that she is in America because she doesn’t understand much English and she doesn’t want to leave her father in case He comes back. Ha, and her family has to adapt to living in Alabama are making it a new “normal.
Ha has three main traits that …show more content…
Ha begins describing as if all Americans should look like a cowboy because of the movie she saw about John Wayne.” I love him Immediately and image him to be a good-hearted and loud and the owner of a horse”(Lai Pg. 111). This quote represents that Ha is inside out when she was in Alabama because Ha didn’t want to be in Alabama she would rather have wartime in Vietnam over peacetime in Alabama because she missed her friends, family, and Father. Ha, and her family began a routine at the camp, Where they were taught English watched movies having evenings to themselves. “I can still hear them begging when I go sit with Brother Koi, who rarely speaks anymore but I’m happy to be near him”(Lai Pg.99). This quote connects to the Thesis because Ha is happy around Khoi knowing that they should be safe from North Vietnam. Ha say she is happy with him doesn’t bother with the other problems like the war, her father gone, wanting her papaya tree. He was given a notepad to write small on but instead, she draws and wanting all the food she loved but was stranded. “Mother smoothes back my hair, knowing the pain of a girl who loves snacks but is stranded on a ship”(Lai Pg. 81).The quote from “Routine” shows that Ha has begun to be inside out because …show more content…
261). This quote from the author’s note is how she used stuff from her life into this novel and to capture the emotional side than anything else. The book Inside Out and Back Again represents a lot of the refugees happening here in the U.S., most of the parts in the book like He gets bullied by someone and when other refugees go to another area to seek asylum they are often picked on for who they are and what they want to be, Not only that but the other refugees today have been inside out and back
Ha has three main traits that …show more content…
Ha begins describing as if all Americans should look like a cowboy because of the movie she saw about John Wayne.” I love him Immediately and image him to be a good-hearted and loud and the owner of a horse”(Lai Pg. 111). This quote represents that Ha is inside out when she was in Alabama because Ha didn’t want to be in Alabama she would rather have wartime in Vietnam over peacetime in Alabama because she missed her friends, family, and Father. Ha, and her family began a routine at the camp, Where they were taught English watched movies having evenings to themselves. “I can still hear them begging when I go sit with Brother Koi, who rarely speaks anymore but I’m happy to be near him”(Lai Pg.99). This quote connects to the Thesis because Ha is happy around Khoi knowing that they should be safe from North Vietnam. Ha say she is happy with him doesn’t bother with the other problems like the war, her father gone, wanting her papaya tree. He was given a notepad to write small on but instead, she draws and wanting all the food she loved but was stranded. “Mother smoothes back my hair, knowing the pain of a girl who loves snacks but is stranded on a ship”(Lai Pg. 81).The quote from “Routine” shows that Ha has begun to be inside out because …show more content…
261). This quote from the author’s note is how she used stuff from her life into this novel and to capture the emotional side than anything else. The book Inside Out and Back Again represents a lot of the refugees happening here in the U.S., most of the parts in the book like He gets bullied by someone and when other refugees go to another area to seek asylum they are often picked on for who they are and what they want to be, Not only that but the other refugees today have been inside out and back