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Inside Out And Day Again Character Analysis
In Thannah Lai’s novel Inside Out and Day Again, Ha is a dynamic character because she's brave enough to leave her home and friends to go somewhere new where she doesn't know anything about which now is becoming her new home.
Ha has to flee home in other to stay alive with all the stuff they really need and leave the rest of things behind in Vietnam. She's fleeing by ship with many people that have the same idea to go somewhere else to stay alive they leave by sea on a full ship until a ship with an American flag comes and helps the the Vietnamese fleeing home by giving fresh food and water which they didn't have in the ship coming from Vietnam.
At her new home she's being bullied for how she looks like and where she came from which

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