Write An Essay About Moving Home

Ha has to move to a new country; like other refugees, they have challenges like having to move from their homes, which sometimes makes them feel inside out. When Ha and her family moved they left behind, “Ten gold-rimmed glasses Father brought back from America…”(Lai,57). They have to leave their home because they want to go to a safe place to live, and they chose to only take so much with them. The items that they took were, a shirt, a pair of pants, three pairs of underwear, among other things, and they also could take one personal item. Young teenagers are fleeing to other countries, “All four teenagers arrived in the U.S. four months ago…”(Brice). The teenagers had no choice but to leave because of how bad the conditions were. They wanted
Photographs of Vietnam reminded Ha about her home, “MiSSS SScott shows photographs of the S shape of Vietnam, of green mountains and long beaches, of a statue of the Buddha reclining” (Lai,205). When Miss Scott held up the picture of Buddha she felt like she was back home because Buddha is one of the few things she remembers in Vietnam. Amela is looking forward to the future, “My graduation is next year, so I have to think about college” (Brice). She likes school enough to go into college and not to worry about the past. She is enjoying her new culture and looking to the future. Emil accepted the change well, “To me, the war just meant changing my friends and where I lived” (Brice). Emil was able to make new friends in his new country so that he could feel like he is home again. Ha had very hard challenges to get through to where she is now, like others had to go through. But now they are feeling like they are back again. Like when Miss Scott showed a picture of Buddha, when Amela is thinking about college and not about the past and when Emil is just referring to the war as a new way of making new