Inside Out And Back Again Analysis

Inside Out and Back Again: Real World Comparisons People around the world are leaving their countries in order to escape the hardships they are enduring where they live. Inside Out and Back Again is a story written by Thanhha Lai. She writes about a young girl named Ha, and her family’s experience as a refugee. Real life refugees’ stories are very similar in comparison to Ha and her family’s story as a refugee. One major experience Ha and her family are going through, as well as many real world refugees, is being forced to flee their home. “Since the war began two years ago, more than 200,000 people have been killed, while another 2 million have been driven from their homes” (Brice 25). These refugees are being forced to flee their homes, just like Ha and her family and hundreds of others in Inside Out and Back Again. “Now, crammed in the small boat with about 70 other migrants and refugees, he dreamed of starting a new life in Europe” (Rebecca 9). This article provides information that is almost exactly like Ha’s family’s previous situation. They were crammed into 1 then 2 small boats with hundreds of other refugees under substandard conditions, but persevered through the tough time because they hoped for a better
In Ha’s story, not only are they afraid of the dangers of the war, they have to decide whether or not to leave their home, they have to ration food and water consumption while fleeing, once they get to America they have to learn a completely new language and learn and adapt to new customs, they even have to deal with that fact their father is missing now to learn his remains have been found and he has passed away. “Their father was kidnapped by Serb forces in 1992” (Brice 26). Not only Ha’s family, but other refugee families have to face missing a huge part of their family and lifetime. Not to mention the many other hardships refugee families have to face