The theme that is shown in Inside out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai through a certain scene in the story and in my life when I first came to Chenery Middle School is life might change from what you are used to and that is OK. In Inside out and Back Again the theme is shown in the scene when they have their first Tet in Alabama and it says “Mother makes her own/ in the shape of a log,/made of pork,/regular rice,/and black beans/wrapped in cloth./Not the same,/but not bad.” This ties back to the claim because Hà has never had a Tet in Alabama(or anywhere else besides Saigon) and she wasn’t used to it and it felt different. Although she isn’t in Saigon anymore(where she celebrated Tet), celebrating Tet in Alabama wasn’t the same but not bad.
