Inside Out And Back Again Analysis
In the novel Inside Out & Back Again, by Thanhha Lai. We have characters named Ha, Mother, Vu, Quang, Pam, Steven, Cowboy, and Miss Washington. It takes in Vietnam in 1975-1976. They will go through lots of the troubles that other refugees experience too, this is called the universal refugee experience. They will have trouble leaving home and finding a new home, they will be inside out for a while. They will also have trouble when they eventually come back again. They will experience very similar things like other refugees.
When Ha lived in Vietnam she had three main traits, which is she is caring, hopeful, and she doesn’t follow what everyone else is doing. Ha lives in Saigon and they celebrate Tet, which is a New Year and everyone’s birthday. …show more content…
On the ship that Ha was leaving Vietnam on there were lots of other people and Ha is a bit stubborn, not quite like the other girls. “Other girls must be made of bamboo, bending whichever way they are told” (Lai,73). This quote shows that Ha is not as flexible with things like other girls her age, Ha does not adapt well to new things. When they ended up in Florida they needed someone to sponsor them so they came across a ‘cowboy’ who was looking for someone who could work for him, he needs someone who good at engineering, so brother Quang impresses him and gets the job, but the cowboy ends up sponsoring the whole family after hearing Mother's story. When they were finally able to find a home they had some trouble with the cowboy's wife. “ One look at our cowboy’s wife, arms, lips, eyes contorted into knots, and we repack.” (Lai,115). They see that his wife does not want them to be in her home. She was expecting her husband to bring home just one person, not expecting a single mom a young girl and three boys, most not knowing English or very little. From an article called “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” They have information about who are refugees, where are refugees, and why are there refugees. This article has a lot of relation to Ha’s story, by using the universal refugee experience. “Food and water are provided, but they are rationed.” (para,7). This shows that while Ha was on the boat their food was rationed, just the same as other refugees, again relating back to the universal refugee experience. No matter where refugees are in the world they will have a lot of the same or very similar experiences. They will go through the same troubles as other refugees fleeing home and also trying to find a new home, as Ha and her family did while they were inside out for a
When Ha lived in Vietnam she had three main traits, which is she is caring, hopeful, and she doesn’t follow what everyone else is doing. Ha lives in Saigon and they celebrate Tet, which is a New Year and everyone’s birthday. …show more content…
On the ship that Ha was leaving Vietnam on there were lots of other people and Ha is a bit stubborn, not quite like the other girls. “Other girls must be made of bamboo, bending whichever way they are told” (Lai,73). This quote shows that Ha is not as flexible with things like other girls her age, Ha does not adapt well to new things. When they ended up in Florida they needed someone to sponsor them so they came across a ‘cowboy’ who was looking for someone who could work for him, he needs someone who good at engineering, so brother Quang impresses him and gets the job, but the cowboy ends up sponsoring the whole family after hearing Mother's story. When they were finally able to find a home they had some trouble with the cowboy's wife. “ One look at our cowboy’s wife, arms, lips, eyes contorted into knots, and we repack.” (Lai,115). They see that his wife does not want them to be in her home. She was expecting her husband to bring home just one person, not expecting a single mom a young girl and three boys, most not knowing English or very little. From an article called “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” They have information about who are refugees, where are refugees, and why are there refugees. This article has a lot of relation to Ha’s story, by using the universal refugee experience. “Food and water are provided, but they are rationed.” (para,7). This shows that while Ha was on the boat their food was rationed, just the same as other refugees, again relating back to the universal refugee experience. No matter where refugees are in the world they will have a lot of the same or very similar experiences. They will go through the same troubles as other refugees fleeing home and also trying to find a new home, as Ha and her family did while they were inside out for a