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Ha's Life As A Refugee
Turning inside out means that your personality changes when you don't want it to and being treated abnormal, unlike anybody else. Ha’s experience of being a refugee defines refugee experience. I say that because when Ha became a refugee, Ha changed internally because Ha no longer feels like she used to in saigon, her home country before Ha and her family entered the U.S. In saigon she felt that she's smart because she understood the language and the schedule, but now in Alabama Ha does not understand the language or the schedule and Ha now knows “What dumb feels like(pg. 157)”. Clearly Ha no longer feels like herself because before Ha became a refugee she felt brilliant but now she no longer feels brilliant instead she feels the opposite,
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