Refugees In Inside Out And Back Again By Thanhha Lai

Refugees are all over the world and are forced to flee their homes leaving everything behind having to start their new lives in a safer place. It is a struggle for survival everyday. The novel: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, is a fictionalization of the real life issues of refugees with the main character Kim Ha and her family having to leave their home in Saigon in order to escape the war that plagues them. The family, although reluctant, decides to flee to America looking for a new place to call home. The phrase “Inside Out” relates to refugees as they are having to start over with nothing familiar about their situation. Ha begins as a happy go lucky girl who loves papaya’s and napping hammocks but as her journey continues she becomes more mature while still carrying her can do attitude. The universal experience of fleeing and finding a new home can be easily relatable to this novel
They all say how they miss the luxury of not having a curfew or many restrictions. “In those days, there weren't any problems. You really could enjoy life.” (Children of War 2) They are limited to do what they’ve done for a while know all in an instant as fear shrouds over them in a gloom. The phrase “back again” can be related to this article as the teenagers want to have their old lives back again when everything was right in the world and they had no