Refugee Inside Out Home

Refugee’s, world wide, have to go through a very difficult adapting process to their new home. Refugee’s could get bullied and face discrimination, there for feeling inside out. There is a perfect book to model what refugees have to go through, Inside Out and Back Again. In this book, the story of a girl named Ha and her family fleeing for safety and their journey to feel at home in their new country, but it’s not that easy. When Ha goes to school she gets bullied as explained, “They pull my arm hair. They call me Pancake Face” (Lai,215). Ha has started a new school and doesn’t fit in. The kids chase her and call her names. Back home in Vietnam, Ha would be mean to the girl who sat next to her but now that it’s happening to her she doesn’t like it. When she finally decides to say something back to them they don’t take it sitting down, it only gets worse. “Pink Boy has gotten his sixth-grade cousin...to agree to beat me up…” (Lai,221). Ha was being called names and when she says one back,“Pink boy”, is what she calls him, gets his cousin to agree to beat her up but, she gets away before this could happen. On the other hand, refugee’s world wide can also face
In the story Inside out and Back again Ha has finally started to settle in her new country. Ha’s family has started doing her favorite holiday again, Tet. “As with every tet…” (Lai,258). Even though they are not home, in Vietnam, they still have their traditions. In addition, her mother continues to “chant” for her father to come home. “She chants every night…” (Lai,234). Mother still chants for her husband to be safe and come home even though she is in a new place. When people are away from their home one thing that could make them feel at home is to do their traditions as their home