The argument over which form of education is better (English immersion or Two-language programs) for children who are not familiar with the English language has been a much heated debate over the years. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is a work of historical fiction. First, Ha, and her mother and her three brothers were forced to flee their home country in Vietnam due to war. They have to face this hardship and many to come without the support of their father, who was kidnapped by the Communists and disappeared. Then, travel on a boat in unsanitary and conditions to a refugee camp in Guam. Next, they are sponsored by a man they call “cowboy” and Are taken to live with him and Alabama. In America, the family faces discrimination because …show more content…
of their race and language and struggle to adjust to their new life. Finally, children who are not native English speakers should be-be enrolled in special classes to help them speed up their education process. Children who come from different countries have difficulty juggling regular lessons with trying to learn the native language.
On page 165 of Inside Out and Back Again we learn that Ha will begin taking lessons with Miss Washington. Page 165 reads “She volunteers to tutor us all. My time with her will be right after school.” This tutoring is to help Ha in her spare time, as she is struggling with her lessons in school. On page 157 it reads “So this is what dumb feels like. I hate, hate, hate it.” This shows that Ha feels upset as she is learning at a much slower pace than the other kids in her class. Page 158 of the novel reads “(I wish) that English could be learned without so many rules.” From this the reader can infer that that Ha is having difficulty learning English while trying to keep up with her regular assignments at …show more content…
school. Children who are not familiar with the English language should be in a special program because they may feel embarrassed or nervous in an immersive class. Page 142 reads “I’m the only straight black hair on olive skin.” Based on this we can infer that Ha feels different from the other kids in her class. She feels like an outsider because of her looks. On page 205 it reads “She asks me, Would you like to say anything? I know Buddha. I hear laughter and a murmur building: Boo-Da, Boo-da.” A few lines later the page reads “I watch the clock, listen for the final bell, and dash. This shows that Ha rushes out of the classroom as soon as school is out because she does not wish to be made fun of because of a comment she made in class. On page 160 of “Hiding” Ha says “I’m hiding in class by staring at my shoes.” Based on this the reader can infer that Ha does not wish to be seen as she does not want to get teased at because of where she comes from or the way she looks. Non-English speakers may have trouble interacting with others and making friends in an English immersion class.
Ha says on page 144 “I don’t know where to sit” We can infer based on this sentence that Ha has a hard time interacting with others as she has no idea where to sit or how to make new friends. It is first Pam and Steven who take the first step of being friendly and kind to Ha as page 184 reads “I firm my muscles, ready for the giggles to explode into laughter thrown at me. But smiles appear instead.” Based on this evidence the reader can infer that Ha was too nervous or scared to make the first move to make friends, and therefore, Pam and Steven did it for her. Ha says on page 140, “I tap my own chest: Ha. She must have heard ha, as in funny ha-ha-ha. She fakes a laugh. This shows that Ha has trouble interacting and speaking to others as they likely do not understand
her. Children who have come to America from different countries should have separate special classes to help speed up the process of English learning. In the novel Inside Out and Back Again Ha would have benefitted from a separate special class. After reading the novel I realized how hard it is for a child in an English only immersion class. My favorite moment in the book is when Ha stands up to Pink Boy as she overcomes one of the many challenges of a child refugee in an English immersion school.
Everyone needs hope to get through hard times. In the book Inside Out and Back Again Written by Thanhha Lai HA is going through hard times in Vietnam. Her country is at war and she sleeps to the sound of bombs. Ha is missing her father who went to war when she was just one and never came back. Ha and her family fled Vietnam and moved to Alabama
Have you ever heard or read the novel “ Inside Out & Back Again ?” It’s written by Thanhha Lai , but she goes by Ha in the novel . If you haven’t keep reading this and I will tell you some things about it . All the people in the country has to basically flee their homes . Some have to leave their things behind . When they find their homes , they are happy about not having to deal with the war anymore . The characters feel inside out and back again because every year they can make a difference from last years . Ha and her family’s life was related to the universal refugee because they were forced to leave .
Refugees share similar experiences and emotions when they move to a new country. The book Inside Out and Back Again splits these feelings into two categories, “inside out” and “back again”. Refugees from around the world experience these feelings. For instance, it is easy for a refugee to feel “inside out” when learning a new language, or they can feel “back again” when they find a familiar object that reminds them of their past. Many refugees mainly struggle with learning a new language, but to make them feel more comfortable, they can find satisfaction in items from their home land.
Symbolism has been used throughout history to used to represent religion and country. There are many symbols in the novel Inside Out and Back Again. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is a work of historical fiction. First, Ha, her mother, and her three brothers were forced to flee their home country of Vietnam due to war. They have to face this hardship without the support of their father, who was kidnapped by the Communists and disappeared. Then, they travel on a boat in unsanitary and awful conditions to a refugee camp in Guam. Next, they are sponsored by a many they call “Cowboy” and are taken to live with him in Alabama. In America, the family faces discrimination because of their race, language, and struggle to adjust to their new life. Finally, In the end Ha, her Mother, and her three brothers are starting to adjust to their new life in Alabama. In Inside Out And Back Again, Mother’s amethyst ring symbolizes value, comfort, and love.
Initially, when the refugees and their children first arrived in America, primarily California but also Minnesota and Wisconsin, the American educational system identified Hmong children as LEP and placed them in English as a Second Language classes. Very few schools offered academic programs to integrate Hmong students into the society of the school and those that do, have not had any flourishing success. Due to the resulting segregation, both socially and academically, the teaching methodology for these students suffered; become haphazard and improvised. During the initial years of integration, there were very few Hmong bilingual teachers. Hmong students were placed in classes based on an expectation that they would not go on to a higher education and that their ma...
When you look at someone, you see a person, but sometimes, you forget that that person has a story. I learned that when I watched the film, I Learn America. When I first watched the movie, I saw students that have come to America. They have come to an international school in New York to learn English. As the film goes on, you see that each of the students that they focus on have struggles that they have/had to overcome to come or stay in America. Before, I did not realize how much they had to go through in order to come to the United States. As educators, we have to get to know our students. We have to understand their lives and their backgrounds and create a good teacher-student relationship and help students build a “home away from home”.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
The Outsiders is about the life of a 14-year-old boy. The book tells the story of Ponyboy “Curtis” and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers, Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16, have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids."
The syrian refugee journey is a long and perilous journey indeed, but some of the lucky few at the end get a reward for all the burdens and troubling ordeals they endured. For instance, Ha towards the end of the novel “Inside out and back again” Ha gets a chance to learn english and go to public schools and escape the tragedies of the war. In the section “Alabama” and chapter “New word a day” of the novel “Inside Out And Back Again” Ha explains how she is being taught english in her new school, Ha says “She makes me memorize one new word a day, and practice them ten times in a conversation… My vocabulary grows.” This statement implies how much she is being taught. And reading further into the novel you realize that the tone given was one that sent mixed messages. Ha also mentions how different the language in the U.S is from the one back in vietnam. Ha in the section “Alabama” and chapter “New word a day” of the novel “Inside Out And Back Again” states “A, an, and the do not exist in vietnamese.” This comes to show how diverse english and vietnamese are and how hard Ha has to work to learn the language. Ha is not lone survivor of the vietnam war, Many other syrian refugees have had to conquer a similar sea of ordeals. In the Article “Syrian refugee children continue their education at public schools in U.S.” The reporter take a picture and uses the citation “Abdulhamid Ashehneh, 12, works on
In order to raise awareness of the staggering injustices, oppression and mass poverty that plague many Indian informal settlements (referred to as slum), Katherine Boo’s novel, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, unveils stories of typical life in a Mumbai slum. Discussing topics surrounding gender relations, environmental issues, and corruption, religion and class hierarchies as well as demonstrating India’s level of socioeconomic development. Encompassing this, the following paper will argue that Boo’s novel successfully depicts the mass social inequality within India. With cities amongst the fastest growing economies in South Eastern Asia, it is difficult to see advances in the individual well-being of the vast majority of the nation. With high
Mise-en-scéne is something that we see in movies all the time. It’s translated from French and means the staging the different aspects of a movie such as setting, lighting, subjects, or almost anything else. Any common movie, such as Inside Out, shows Mise-en-snéne in it. Three big parts of Mise-en-scéne that are shown in the movie Inside Out are cinematography, sound, and editing. Inside Out uses all of these by describing a plot in which there are feelings in our brains which connect to different memories that we can remember at any time. There were five main emotions that controlled the person on the outside whose name was Riley. The five emotions were named, Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. They helped Riley as she moved away from
In the critically acclaimed and contemporary film “ Get Out” directed by Jordan Peele, illustrates the raw and honest viewpoints of the main character Chris and his role of photography, for being seen as a weapon, symbolism, and safety.
Backroads begins with Harley being questioned by the police for a crime that the reader knows not of. He delves into the story that has brought him up to this point, beginning from a year after his mother shot his father. The events in the course of this are breath taking.
Mulan seems to be a feminist film which encourages individual women to take care of themselves. However, the film is not free from traditional gender roles. While the film may be progressive by removing the "damsel in distress" plot, further analysis shows it isn’t a feminist film at all. Disney’s Mulan reinforces a black and white societal role of gender that privilege men over women. In contrast the poem is incredibly progressive, it shows a woman fighting just as well as men and men accepting her as a powerful warrior not being jealous of her power. The poem removes gender roles whereas the Disney movie reinforces them.
The news of my relocation hit me like a bus. It wasn’t the fact that I would have to go to a new and unfamiliar area that frightened me so much, but the fact that America meant perfecting the language of English. My cousins set the standards for me extremely high. I knew that it would be difficult to adapt to a new school, but my family explained the benefits of going to high school at Eastern. They said Eastern would provide me copious amounts of opportunities, where if I worked hard and took advantage of said opportunities, I would flourish. Still, the fear that took over essentially paralyzed me. I remember my freshman English accelerated class, My first day is still so vivid, embedded in my mind. Panic rushed through my spine as I pondered outside of the 800 hallway, walking back in forth from outside my English class to the guidance office. “Kaya ko ba ‘to? Pano kung tawanan lang nila ako?” I thought to myself, “Can i do this? What if they laugh at me?” I pondered, nervous that my thick accent and mediocre english vocabulary would land me in the back of the class, the stupid row, where the delinquents sat, the ones who didn’t care about the book and just watched the movie. This experience was unfamiliar to me. I’m 16 years old and somehow I’ve lived in 3 countries, went through 5 different schools, and spoke 5 different languages and never felt like I was unworthy of being in a class or school. I always