Refugee In Inside Out And Back Again
Anyone who flees their home country due to war or persecution is referred as a refugee. In Inside Out and Back Again, we are introduced to the narrator, Ha. Ha is a refugee who fled her country, Vietnam, because of political warfare. In the novel, she explains her experiences being in the middle of the war feeling confused and sad at most times, not knowing what’s going on. This causes her brother needing to explain everything to her. Ha, and her family, after fleeing from the North Vietnamese Communists, soon end up in Alabama, living normal lives and going to school there. Like Ha, Tom Lantos, a Hungarian refugee, fled imprisonment and hid within his country due to political warfare. He joined a resistance group to fight the Nazis. This shows that while their life after fleeing had some differences, they can relate on one aspect: the reason to flee.
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For Ha, it was because she and many other Vietnamese families were being driven out by the Communists who left them with two choices, stay and die, or flee. Ha recalls, “South Vietnam no longer exists. One woman tries to throw herself overboard, screaming that without a country she cannot live” (85). A statement that addresses passengers that were shocked, having to become refugees, knowing that they may never be able to come back. This shocked feeling had also come to Tom Lantos when he needed to flee and when his reality was changed as a young teen: “Lantos was 16 when Nazi Germany occupied the Hungarian capital on March 1944, He was sent to a labor camp in Szob.”(Biography.com) Lantos and many others were sent to labor camps where they would ultimately die. However, Lantos couldn’t accept that fact so he escaped the labor camp. Ha and Lantos may have had similar reasons to flee, but their outcomes were
For Ha, it was because she and many other Vietnamese families were being driven out by the Communists who left them with two choices, stay and die, or flee. Ha recalls, “South Vietnam no longer exists. One woman tries to throw herself overboard, screaming that without a country she cannot live” (85). A statement that addresses passengers that were shocked, having to become refugees, knowing that they may never be able to come back. This shocked feeling had also come to Tom Lantos when he needed to flee and when his reality was changed as a young teen: “Lantos was 16 when Nazi Germany occupied the Hungarian capital on March 1944, He was sent to a labor camp in Szob.”(Biography.com) Lantos and many others were sent to labor camps where they would ultimately die. However, Lantos couldn’t accept that fact so he escaped the labor camp. Ha and Lantos may have had similar reasons to flee, but their outcomes were