Challenges In Life: Vietnamese Refugees In Closed Too Soon
“Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides.” – Steve Maraboli. Everyone is faced with challenges throughout life, but it depends if you let it make or break you. Ha and her family have to flee their country and in a blink of an eye, their lives are turned inside out and back again. Ha starts to grow up throughout her journey because of the many struggles her and her family face as Vietnamese refugees. As ha and her family go through a complex journey, they are faced with obstacles such as war and poverty. Many hazards are created due to the war, Saigon is slowly falling apart. For example, in the poem, “Closed Too Soon” it says, “School’s now closed; everyone must go home a month too soon.