Inside Out And Back Again Themes
Thematic Essay
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. The novel is about a girl named Ha, she spent ten years in her birth country Saigon. Her family consists, her three brother, her mother. Ha’s father was a U.S Navy troop, he went missing on duty. The war then reached her home and fled. After they fled she and her family became refuges. They family boarded a U.S Navy ship and headed towards hope. They reached a camp and signed papers and came to America. They settled in Alabama. The theme my group and I decided to elaborate on was, “Struggle for survival.” They faced challenges physically and mentally, on their journey to America. Some challenges were, hoping that father was alive, lessening food supplies and starting a new life.
“Ha’s father was on a navy mission on March 10 nine years ago when she was almost one. He was captured on Route 1 an hour south of the city by moped.” This was a challenge Ha and her family faced mentally. They didn’t know if she was alive or not. They presumed he was dead or he was in America. This was what kept them going …show more content…
It was hard for Ha because she didn’t know the language of English that well. As she was going to school the children bullied and picked on her because she was a refugee. “They pulled my arm hair, they threw rocks at me, they promised to stomp on my chest.” The first person Ha told that she was getting bullied at school was brother Vu. He then taught her defense. Ha in now learning English and no longer gets bullied.
In conclusion Ha and her family faced many challenges physically and mentally coming to America but then it paid off. “Brother Quang has started night school to restudy engineering to become what he was meant to be, brother Vu refused to apply to a real college instead will go to a cooking school in San-Francisco and brother Khoi announces he will become a veterinarian.” They can’t repatriate to Saigon because it’s
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. The novel is about a girl named Ha, she spent ten years in her birth country Saigon. Her family consists, her three brother, her mother. Ha’s father was a U.S Navy troop, he went missing on duty. The war then reached her home and fled. After they fled she and her family became refuges. They family boarded a U.S Navy ship and headed towards hope. They reached a camp and signed papers and came to America. They settled in Alabama. The theme my group and I decided to elaborate on was, “Struggle for survival.” They faced challenges physically and mentally, on their journey to America. Some challenges were, hoping that father was alive, lessening food supplies and starting a new life.
“Ha’s father was on a navy mission on March 10 nine years ago when she was almost one. He was captured on Route 1 an hour south of the city by moped.” This was a challenge Ha and her family faced mentally. They didn’t know if she was alive or not. They presumed he was dead or he was in America. This was what kept them going …show more content…
It was hard for Ha because she didn’t know the language of English that well. As she was going to school the children bullied and picked on her because she was a refugee. “They pulled my arm hair, they threw rocks at me, they promised to stomp on my chest.” The first person Ha told that she was getting bullied at school was brother Vu. He then taught her defense. Ha in now learning English and no longer gets bullied.
In conclusion Ha and her family faced many challenges physically and mentally coming to America but then it paid off. “Brother Quang has started night school to restudy engineering to become what he was meant to be, brother Vu refused to apply to a real college instead will go to a cooking school in San-Francisco and brother Khoi announces he will become a veterinarian.” They can’t repatriate to Saigon because it’s