Inside Out And Back Again Analysis

Fleeing from Danger to a Place of Opportunities

Imagine: walking outside in front of your house and your life being in danger. Since is a common situation in a war country. This causes families to be split from one another because some have to go to war or others die. Since the area is hazardous these people have to leave their home. Fleeing from the only place you loved and knew is a burdensome time because refugees leave everything behind and have only memories to bring along with you. When people flee their country because they have been in danger they become refugees. These refugees face many life-changing events. Ha the main character in Inside Out and Back Again is an example of what all refugees endure. Ha and others face discrimination

The feeling of being all alone because they don't fit in or having nothing and feeling useless, can cause refugees to not thrive in their new country but can turn their lives back around by excepting the new customs and letting go of the past.

In the beginning, of every refugee story there is always uncertainty about the new life ahead of them in their new country. Refugees carry a lot of unseen wounds from the war and being resettled is like starting life over again. But the kids don’t always fit in and some don't feel that they have any meaning in life which can cause major problems. Many teenagers that have become refugees go through these issues and explain “Everything completely changed. One minute we had everything, then we had nothing…everything seemed so useless” (Children of War). All people of all ages that have fled their

But doing so takes time so when refugees let go of past life and look to their future and it is a big change. Adapting can be easy when there is plenty of support from organizations and the community they resettled in. When refugees first come to the new country they probably have a hard time seeing the positive in this new place but eventually see the reason. Refugees see the reason of fleeing when “…people don’t judge you by your religion. Things are getting better because we can go to school. We couldn’t go to school in Croatia… But America is giving us a chance for a better future than we could have in Bosnia” (The Children of War). The refugee Amela talked how her life has become better since she moved from her original country because she has more opportunities to excel in school and more freedom. Her future will become so much more successful since she was able to get an education and not to be judge by what she believed in. Amela was able to adapt to the new environment by accepting the ways of life, Ha had to do the same thing if she wanted a bright future also. Ha adapted to the American food by accepting that American papayas aren’t like Vietnamese but they are close. When Ha does this she looks at “strips of papaya gooey and damp… not the same but not bad at all” (Lai 234). By saying the American papayas weren’t bad symbolizes