Inside Out And Back Again: An Analysis

Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their countries in order to escape war, persecution, and natural disaster. Most refugees are ordinary people coming from ordinary places. One of these ordinary people, Kim Hà from South Vietnam, was created as a fictional character for the novel Inside Out & Back Again, written by Thanhha Lai, who modeled it after her own life as a refugee. Lai, just like her character Hà, was forced to flee her home during the Vietnam War, and ended up in the United States, in the state of Alabama. While Hà is a fictional character, Lai gives her certain characteristics so readers of her novel will realize the struggles refugees have to face, and the ways they must recover from them.

In the novel Inside Out and Back again Ha and her family have to flee their home South Vietnam because of the Communist invasion, but escaping isn’t the only hard part, Ha gets bullied, doesn’t speak the language of her new country, and has no clue about the culture of this new place. Ha has a very similar experience to many other refugees throughout the world. Ha, her mother, and brothers have all gone through many things flipping their world upside down, and just like many other refugees there whole life has changed because of what happened to them. But despite all of this they have managed to come back. Just like Ha’s family Til Gurung and his people have had to go through the same universal refugee experience.

They get “turned inside out “and eventually “come back again”. A refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape the disaster they are in. Ha has a hopeful personality in Vietnam and once the war begins and she has to leave, she gets turned inside out. Ha comes back again once they get to Alabama.

Change Comes When It Is Least Expected In his memoir “A Long Way Gone,” Ishmael Beah describes both his indirect and direct experiences with war. He first explains that the war seemed as though it had been some place far off, and that it was when refugee began passing through was what it apparent that it was happening in their own country. The author describes the condition of the refugees as, “Apart from their fatigue and malnourishment, it was evident they had seen something … that we would refuse to accept if they told us all of it” (Beah, 2007, p. 1).

“Many [of these people] are escaping violence, poverty, or persecution….” (Zissou, Smith, 15). Migrants use all of these characteristics: bravery, knowledge, and perseverance while fleeing to another country. They know that they could be caught and killed. but most of those people are smart and brave enough to escape that.

America is the “melting pot” country where immigrants from various countries around the world come here and settle. They come here either for economy, political, education or medical reason. When they migrate here they bring with them their culture, religious, value and belief which makes America more diverse and interest. Yet, at the same time it often leads to two cultures collision. Cultural shock is unavoidable for almost newcomer refugee people.

One theme that you can identify from “Inside Out And Back Again” is,hope determination and family are needed to get through tough times. Ha and her family have determination when they flee vietnam. They have hope to have a good life without war and they have family,eachother. Ha and her family have to flee from the vietnam war. During the war one of the things they used to help them get through the tough times was determination.

The lives of refugees are turned “inside out” out when they are forced to flee because they have to leave the only home they have ever known and try to figure out a way to leave their old lives behind. They are not leaving their country because they want to but because they are forced to and it can feel like

The estimated number of refugees leaving their own country since World War II is one hundred million ("Refugee”). A refugee is a person who has left their country because of fear of their safety due to violence, race, religion, or war. Supporting and solving today’s refugee crisis is especially controversial because of the current events, financing, and security issues. ("Refugee Facts”). Climate change and natural disasters sometimes cause people to leave their homes or countries.

Ha’s experience can be connected to universal refugees because of the suffering they went through while trying to build a better life, and

The universal refugee experience consists of “fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion” (Gevert 9). Throughout a refugee 's life they will go through ups and downs, or inside out and back again. The universal refugee experience isn’t something people dream of having but it happens to people everyday all over the world. In the book, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, the author focuses on the events that happen to Ha and her family. These events are the same experiences that every refugee goes

People who have been thrust into a completely unfamiliar situation where the differences in daily life leave a big gaping hole. They have to suddenly adjust to living in a completely different way. And often, refugees have to adjust to being in a situation where people might be unfair to them based on where they used to live or their way of life. Refugee children often feel the ache of losing their homes more profoundly than their elders. The article “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison” states “Once in Canada, they both have to endure the ‘push-and-pull’ forces of home and

INTRODUCTION Tent cities, camps, settlements, temporary spaces, relocation, non-citizen, guest, barricades, containers, fences, security, desert, non-fertile areas… But, home? Not really, human beings stocked. But, cities? Not really, tents with some order.

Keeping refugees outside the borders of the country appears to be more expensive in the long run than taking them in and thus intensifies the tab for taxpayers. In this procress, critics suggest “many countries are creating their own refugee

They feel and become left out when they are with their community’s group of friends. In addition, some older children who came to the United States have a hard time learning a new culture because it was a culture shock to them. There are two major things that become problems in their journey to adopt a new culture; barrier to language and living their lifestyle. While adapting new culture, they have a difficult journey because of the bully, discrimination, and racism that they encounter. Some of these situations that Chin refugees face can be related to how Faith faces her problems with cultures and