The Universal Refugee Experience In The Novel Inside Out And Back Again

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The novel Inside Out and Back Again has a great amount of similarities to the universal refugee experience. Ha was a girl who had fled her country, just to be able to find safety in another country that was so foreign to her. A universal refugee experience is fleeing and finding a home because there was terrible things at home so they had to flee to save their lives, not because they wanted to. Ha is an example of the universal refugee experience because there was war in her home country Vietnam. So, Ha and her family fled to the United States so they would be able to potentially start a better life for them. Ha was a Vietnamese girl who loved her papaya tree and her family. She went to school and fought with her brothers. Her father was gone at war, who she hadn’t seen since she was a baby. That of course had changed drastically when she became a refugee along with her family. This has happened to many other people that have become refugees as well, whether it was due to famine or because …show more content…

All refugee’s lives get turned inside out while they are going through the movements of grieving, moving to get into their new country, and finding how to feel safe in their new home. Everyone just wants to feel safe, some just have to move to become safe. Others have to fight their way through it for a better life. Although, when some move it does not get better right away because many people are discriminated. But all the same, refugee’s lives get turned inside out while they are going through the movements of grieving, moving to get into their new country, and finding how to feel safe in their new home. When refugee’s finally feel safe in their new home, they adapt to their prior customs. All refugee’s go through something similar. People from different countries may have different struggles at first. But at the end of the day, both of their lives turn, “Inside Out and Back

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