Refugees are ordinary people who are forced to flee their homes because of a disaster that has happened in their country or city. While fleeing home, their lives can turn inside out because of hunger and thirst, death and loss of family, and leaving their prized possessions behind. While finding home, their lives can turn back again because of the adaption to their new environment, letting go of the past and moving on to the present to make new memories, and even making a couple of friends might even help too. An example of a refugee is Ha from the book ‘Inside Out and Back Again’. Ha is a 10-year-old girl from Saigon, Vietnam, and she lives with her mom and her three brothers. Her life turned inside out when she and her family were forced to flee her home because of the communists taking over Saigon in the Vietnam War. She was forced to board a boat called the USS Kirk and leave behind her prized possession, her papaya tree, which she took great care of when she had it, and the absence of her father made it even worse. Her life turned back again whenever she arrived in Alabama, United States with her family. It took a little while to get to the back again point because at first everyone in Ha's family had stressful days, Ha, for example, was bullied at school for having armpit hair at such a young age. But as the time when on, they all adapted to their new environment eventually. No matter who refugees are, where they are from, or why they flee, they all experience hunger or thirst when fleeing at some point, and adapting and resettling when they are finding their new home at some point.
The lives of refugees turn 'inside out' because of hunger and thirst, death/ loss of family members, and leaving their prized possessions behind. On page 57 of ‘Inside Out and Back Again’, Ha says: “Mother chooses ten and burns the rest”. Ha is telling us how her family has to choose the most important things that they have to take with them while they flee their home. They may have to leave some of their most cherished items behind because they will need to escape Saigon as quickly as possible, and those items that are being brought with them may slow them down. The informational text ‘Refugees: Who, Where, Why’ says: “Refugees are also regular people: mothers, fathers, students, teachers, etc.”. This tells me that the people who are forced to flee their country are also a part of a family, and in some circumstances, they may have to leave them to get away from all of the chaos quicker. According to the text ‘Children of War’, one of the kids in the text, Elma Brokovic, says: “One minute we had everything, then we had nothing”. She is saying that the moment that the war hit, they lost all the good things they had before, which included food and water, so they suffered from hunger and thirst on some nights because it was too dangerous to go and get more. The lives of the refugees also turned inside out when 'finding a home' because of the judgment from other people about their physical features. On page 145 of ‘Inside Out and Back Again’, Ha says: “A pink boy with white hair on his head and white eyebrows and white eyelashes pulls my arm hair”. Ha is being bullied at school because of the armpit hair that she has developed earlier than most kids.
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The lives of refugees can turn back again because of making new friends at their new home, letting go of the past and making new memories, and adapting to their new environment. On page 181 of 'Inside Out and Back Again', the text says: “I'll pack you a lunch, and you can eat at your desk”. This is showing someone who cares about Ha and wants to see her do good, a friend, even though she may not be the same age as her. In the text 'Children of War', it is said: “Things are getting better because we get to go to school. We couldn't go to school in Croatia because we are Muslims”. I think that the children are adjusting to the new things they have encountered since moving to America, and are starting to enjoy it because they can do different things, like going to school. The text 'Refugees: Who, Where, Why' states: “From 1975 to 2001, more than two million refugees were offered resettlement”. This is saying that the refugees were offered to start over, but this time in a place that is safe to live in, and not dangerous to sit around for 2 seconds. This is their life turning back again. When refugees finally find a new home, they discover that their new life is different, but still a good change because they do not have to worry about being in the dangers that they were in their home country.
On the journey fleeing home, refugees experience hunger and thirst, death and loss of family members, and the loss of their prized possessions. These challenges impact their lives because those were the things that meant everything to them, and not only do they have to leave the only place that they considered as home, but also some other things that were a part of their life. On the journey to finding home, refugees experience judgment from other people on their physical features. Although many encounters change their lives forever, their lives eventually begin to turn back again. When the lives of refugees turn 'back again', they begin to adapt to their new environment, let go of the past and move to the present to make new memories, and make some new friends in the long run. These solutions help the refugees because all of their focus is on the present and what they are trying to do now to help their families, there is nothing they can do to change the past, but they can control their future by controlling their present and what they do now in their new home.
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