In the book “Inside Out and Back Again” and the other articles, the authors are describing The refugees and Her family fleeing their homes and trying to find a new home. “ The first hot bite of freshly cooked rice, plump and nutty, makes me imagine the taste of ripe papaya although one has nothing to do with other.” Ha images the taste of ripe papaya when she took the first hot bite of cooked rice. Ha misses they taste of her sweet papaya taste. “ The serbs started shooting so we ran away unit we came to relatives who lived in another part of town, There wasn't much food there so we decided we had to go to Croatia.” They went with their relatives first but when they were there, there wasn't enough food for everyone. So they went to the next town. “I bite down on a thigh” might …show more content…
“ She has an answer for everything just like mother.”( 167) Miss Washington has an answer for everything and know a lot of things just like her mother know every answer for everything that Ha had a question for. So Misposition reminds her liie her mother and it makes her life good and home. “ People don’t judge you by your religion. Some people here don’t even know where Bosnia is, but their really nice and try to help. They don't judge you for who you are or religion you are. In the U.S.A they want you to feel safe and happy. There some things that make you feel home because of the things you do and you spend time with your family. “ I tell her I’d like to plant flowers from Vietnam in her backyard.” (254) Ha has alway liked to plant things and know that she can plant flowers and etc, she knows that the root will grow and spread. It makes her feel good and home because it reminds her of her papaya tree. That grow tall and the roots spread. In every new country you move too they make you feel like back home. And it might feel sad, and happy because there good things and bad thing about
It also shows some more common ideas, like how all families have secrets, and in just a short time, someone’s life can be turned upside down and they have to find the best way to stay strong for themselves and their families. The most important thing I learned from this book, is how some people in other cultures find life to be very difficult when they are trying to do what is best for their family. Anita kept saying America is the ‘free country’ and I couldn’t agree more. So many people want to come here for so many different reasons, and it makes you realize that if our country is so great that people from all over the world want to move here, we are very lucky to be so highly thought
Before and during her time at Manzanar Jeanne’s feeling of herself went from hardly knowing and being scared to being displeased with herself and wanting to be accepted by Americans. Jeanne recalled a childhood experience, she remembered,
In the early stages of American history, life was not all it seemed cut out to be; and under any circumstances, integrating into a new lifestyle is difficult. John Downe, a British immigrant, writes a letter to his wife hoping to persuade her to join him in America. Downe uses heavy logos, pathos, and juxtaposition in his argument.
In “Princess of Nebraska” the author exemplifies the disenchantment of America when she writes, “If only her baby were a visa that would admit her into this prosperity, Sasha thought, saddened by the memories of Inner Mongolia and Nebraska, the night skies of both places black with lonely stars”(79). Although America is unique in certain rights and freedoms, these freedoms just as anything else have limitations. Sasha feels unchanged by her new environment, still feeling unable to grow her sense of self or escape the problems she attempted to abandon in her old world. The prosperity of America does not keep Sasha from the loneliness and troubles that consume her life, thus making the “night skies” of America and China comparable. In “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers”, Mr. Shi has similar struggles coping with the anticlimactic realities of true America and his inability to provoke change within his relationship with his daughter. The narrator highlights the lack of communication and distance that still exists between them when stating, “He feels disappointed in his daughter, someone he shares a language with but with whom he can no longer share a dear moment”(194). Although Mr.Shi feels America should serve him the liberties to be a better
He learned over some time, that it is possible for one to retain separateness but keep individuality, and one can be a public person as well as a private person. He says that at first he wanted to be like everyone else (fit in), and only when he could think of himself as American it was than okay to be an individual in public society. He speaks of a man from Mexico who held on to Spanish: "For as long as he holds on to words, he can ignore how much else has changed his life" (35). The message is to not take words for granted and not to misuse words because they certainly do have meaning. For example, `brother' and `sister' is becoming a public repetition of words. The meaning will become lifeless. Words mean something when the voice takes control "the heart cannot contain!" (39). It forms an intimate sound.
In her poem, “My Mother Who Came From China Where She Never Saw Snow,” Laureen Mar shows the industriousness and great effort of female immigrant factory workers through her use of punctuation, irony and imagery. All of these elements work together to make the reader understand the hardships these women had to endure: making the same items, day after day, for which they will never be able to afford or have any use for. These women make only enough money to survive.
that she would have better luck and an easier transition to living the American Dream. It is
American culture making it difficult for her to trust what her visions were telling her. However,
In the movie Inside Out, Riley is forced to move to San Francisco from Minnesota. She has to leave her old lifestyle and must adapt to her new lifestyle. Her emotions (Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Joy) get in the way, she has a difficult time adjusting to the new house and school. When Joy and Sadness get lost in long-term memory, Fear, Disgust, and Anger have a difficult time filling Joy’s duties in order to make Riley can be happy. With the conflict of the emotions Riley is unable to feel anything and she decides she wants to go back to Minnesota, where she is happy.
For Foua, a Hmong mother, the United States was a complete opposite to the life she was use to living and right now preparing this wedding shows the skills that she possess even if they are not very relevant in her new home, “‘I [Foua] am very stupid.’ When I [Anne] asked her why, she said, “Because I don’t know anything here. I don’t know your language. American is so hard, you can watch TV all day ad you still don’t know it” (Fadiman 103). This wedding bought Foua and Anne close in a different way, it created a new level of understanding and appreciation. Anne is starting to discover what it is like to be from another country where the language is different, the clothes are different, the entire way the people live is different. Basically, the world has been flipped upside down and the people need to find their new source of living. It is never easy to pick up a perfectly settled life and suddenly decide that moving and changing it all around is exactly what we need to do. But that was not the case of Foua, her family was forced to move to the United States. This would have made it even harder to adjust. Everything is suddenly thrown at Foua and there is no looking back only forward and the forward might be a lot more difficult. This is why this wedding is like a dream to Foua, it combines her old life with her new life. Although, the skill of creating a Hmong wedding might not be useful in the United States they still create a lot of joy and this joy can lead people to understand one another in a new found way. A new joy that was found in the new life of the bride and groom, but also there was the connection between two cultures. There was a greater understanding and
Few months ago, there was a huge impressing movie to me, which was named Inside Out, and it is an animation movie, and focused on adults. Inside Out is also fifteenth animation movie that Global animation company, Pixar, released. Their ambitious work, Monster University, failed to gain a number of audiences, so Pixar had resting period for two years. As the result, people worried about that Pixar might have been collapsed. However, two years later, according to this movie, Pixar informed they are still alive by obtaining many audiences. This movie completely gave me a good lesson and realization that how much and why all emotions are needed and important.
In his essay he states several times Americans are unhappy. He exhibits this through one observer’s written comment: “A man works in one place, sleeps in another, shops somewhere else, finds pleasure or companionship where he can, and cares about none if these places.” First of all, this is just one observer’s opinion, also we know nothing about this individuals credentials or his experience. Also we must realize all the tasks he listed have to be done in separate places. You can not work, sleep, and shop all at the same place. If you were to talk to different people or observe several people you would find some who would be very happy and content with work, rest, and companionship, while others may not care about these issues. Besides being unhappy, Oldenburg also believes Americans spend little or no time trying to get to know our neighbors.
The second way Ha is turned inside out is the difference of the food she eats now from what she ate in Vietnam. “...might as well bite down on bread soaked in water” (Lai, Page 121). Ha is inside out because the food in America is different. In Vietnam she’s used to fresh
She is commenting on how Native Americans lived before they were moved. They had a good life, as she writes, will a great sense of community, friendship and prosperity. No one in the tribe was left behind, no matter if they were not good hunters or gatherers. As long as you had a tribe to look after you, you will be alright. However, each stanza this pleasantness is interrupted by the white man. Even though what the Native Americans stand for is beautiful, they are removed and they are only allotted what the imperialists will give them. Here is a stanza to understand these concepts, “To each head of household—so long as you remember your tribal words for/ village you will recollect that the grasses still grow and the rivers still flow. So/ long as you teach your children these words they will remember as well. This /we cannot allow. One hundred and sixty acres allotted” (Da’). As we see with this quote, Da’ is pointing out how the new Americans exiled the Native people not only from their land, but their righteous ways of living, and the precious land that allowed them to be
America was not everything the mothers had expected for their daughters. The mothers always wanted to give their daughters the feather to tell of their hardships, but they never could. They wanted to wait until the day that they could speak perfect American English. However, they never learned to speak their language, which prevented them from communicating with their daughters. All the mothers in The Joy Luck Club had so much hope for their daughters in America, but instead their lives ended up mirroring their mother’s life in China. All the relationships had many hardships because of miscommunication from their different cultures. As they grew older the children realized that their ...