Refugees Inside Out And Back Again
Refugees Inside Out & Back Again When refugee children flee their country looking for a safe place they come to what’s called a “host country”. Some refugees when coming to their new country they could get bullied by other children or maybe discriminated by older adults. Refugees and Ha, from the book “Inside Out & Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, got bullied in school. Ha, like many refugee children, often get discriminated because of their color, they look different or maybe do things differently.
Refugees get bullied often because of many reasons. Ha got bullied because she looked different and had a different religion. In “Inside Out & Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, Lai wrote “A pink boy with white hair on his head and white eyebrows
and white eyelashes pulls my arm hair. Laughter…. He pokes my cheek. Howls for everyone. He pokes my chest” (Lai 145-146). This quote shows Ha got bullied because she looked different than everyone else, later in the novel it states “I’m hiding in class by staring at my shoes. I’m hiding during lunch in the bathroom, eating hard rolls saved from dinner” (160), showing that Ha avoids the bullies, and she is inside out. Refugees are affected in similar ways. “In 1951, the United Nations defined refugees as a person who, ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership, in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality’” (Gevert).
Refugees get bullied often because of many reasons. Ha got bullied because she looked different and had a different religion. In “Inside Out & Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, Lai wrote “A pink boy with white hair on his head and white eyebrows
and white eyelashes pulls my arm hair. Laughter…. He pokes my cheek. Howls for everyone. He pokes my chest” (Lai 145-146). This quote shows Ha got bullied because she looked different than everyone else, later in the novel it states “I’m hiding in class by staring at my shoes. I’m hiding during lunch in the bathroom, eating hard rolls saved from dinner” (160), showing that Ha avoids the bullies, and she is inside out. Refugees are affected in similar ways. “In 1951, the United Nations defined refugees as a person who, ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership, in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality’” (Gevert).