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Analysis Of Inside Out And Back Again By Thannha Lai

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"Inside Out and Back Again" written by Thannha Lai, about her life experiences' published in 2011, written in a collection of poems. " Inside Out and Back Again" follows a young girl named Ha and her family of refugees as they escape Saigon in April 1975 and find refuge on an overloaded naval ship. The family eventually finds their way to a tent city in Guam, and later to a town in Alabama. After reading "Inside Out and Back Again" from my personal experiences' I feel that this book teaches us that, The storms and struggles in our lives either make us or break us, but, In this case, it made Ha's family stronger.

At the beginning of the book, we already know that the Patriarch ( Ha's Father ), is fighting in the war. In the first few pages in the book, Ha wishes to see her father again. "Wish father would come home, so I can stop daydreaming that he will appear, in my classroom in …show more content…

They could only take a few items with them, each family member took their most precious belongings. " Photographs: Every Tet at the zoo , Father in his youth, Mother in her youth, baby pictures, where you can't tell who's bottom is exposed for all the world to see. Mother chooses ten and the burns the rest ( pg.58 )." Some many memories lost, burned, well except for the exception of ten . " Brother Vu chops the head falls; a silver blade slices. A black seeds spill like a cluster of eyes wet and crying ( pg.60 ) ." Ha's beloved Papaya Tree had to a departed by a sliver blade its first young papaya. Ha was not going to leave that for the Communist to have, but that was the first Papaya off of the tree. Plus, it was not even fully grown. Think that this was a scar Ha carries with her throughout the story, even though it was a minor scar. Ha will always miss the Papaya Tree, and it's unripen fruit. I also know that Ha will grow as well as the Papaya Tree back in the no longer existing South

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