The argument over which form of education is better (English immersion or Two-language programs) for children who are not familiar with the English language has been a much heated debate over the years. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is a work of historical fiction. First, Ha, and her mother and her three brothers were forced to flee their home country in Vietnam due to war. They have to face this hardship and many to come without the support of their father, who was kidnapped by the Communists and disappeared. Then, travel on a boat in unsanitary and conditions to a refugee camp in Guam. Next, they are sponsored by a man they call “cowboy” and Are taken to live with him and Alabama. In America, the family faces discrimination because …show more content…
On page 165 of Inside Out and Back Again we learn that Ha will begin taking lessons with Miss Washington. Page 165 reads “She volunteers to tutor us all. My time with her will be right after school.” This tutoring is to help Ha in her spare time, as she is struggling with her lessons in school. On page 157 it reads “So this is what dumb feels like. I hate, hate, hate it.” This shows that Ha feels upset as she is learning at a much slower pace than the other kids in her class. Page 158 of the novel reads “(I wish) that English could be learned without so many rules.” From this the reader can infer that that Ha is having difficulty learning English while trying to keep up with her regular assignments at …show more content…
Ha says on page 144 “I don’t know where to sit” We can infer based on this sentence that Ha has a hard time interacting with others as she has no idea where to sit or how to make new friends. It is first Pam and Steven who take the first step of being friendly and kind to Ha as page 184 reads “I firm my muscles, ready for the giggles to explode into laughter thrown at me. But smiles appear instead.” Based on this evidence the reader can infer that Ha was too nervous or scared to make the first move to make friends, and therefore, Pam and Steven did it for her. Ha says on page 140, “I tap my own chest: Ha. She must have heard ha, as in funny ha-ha-ha. She fakes a laugh. This shows that Ha has trouble interacting and speaking to others as they likely do not understand
Initially, when the refugees and their children first arrived in America, primarily California but also Minnesota and Wisconsin, the American educational system identified Hmong children as LEP and placed them in English as a Second Language classes. Very few schools offered academic programs to integrate Hmong students into the society of the school and those that do, have not had any flourishing success. Due to the resulting segregation, both socially and academically, the teaching methodology for these students suffered; become haphazard and improvised. During the initial years of integration, there were very few Hmong bilingual teachers. Hmong students were placed in classes based on an expectation that they would not go on to a higher education and that their ma...
Have you ever heard or read the novel “ Inside Out & Back Again ?” It’s written by Thanhha Lai , but she goes by Ha in the novel . If you haven’t keep reading this and I will tell you some things about it . All the people in the country has to basically flee their homes . Some have to leave their things behind . When they find their homes , they are happy about not having to deal with the war anymore . The characters feel inside out and back again because every year they can make a difference from last years . Ha and her family’s life was related to the universal refugee because they were forced to leave .
In the book Inside out And back Again, Ha, her family, and most of South Vietnam are representing the modern day refugees. They show what life is like for many different evacuees from around the world: . This essay will show how the title Inside out and Back Again relates to the universal refugee experience by showing all of the hardships and things the refugees have to redevelop such as culture, language, manners, and friends.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
The syrian refugee journey is a long and perilous journey indeed, but some of the lucky few at the end get a reward for all the burdens and troubling ordeals they endured. For instance, Ha towards the end of the novel “Inside out and back again” Ha gets a chance to learn english and go to public schools and escape the tragedies of the war. In the section “Alabama” and chapter “New word a day” of the novel “Inside Out And Back Again” Ha explains how she is being taught english in her new school, Ha says “She makes me memorize one new word a day, and practice them ten times in a conversation… My vocabulary grows.” This statement implies how much she is being taught. And reading further into the novel you realize that the tone given was one that sent mixed messages. Ha also mentions how different the language in the U.S is from the one back in vietnam. Ha in the section “Alabama” and chapter “New word a day” of the novel “Inside Out And Back Again” states “A, an, and the do not exist in vietnamese.” This comes to show how diverse english and vietnamese are and how hard Ha has to work to learn the language. Ha is not lone survivor of the vietnam war, Many other syrian refugees have had to conquer a similar sea of ordeals. In the Article “Syrian refugee children continue their education at public schools in U.S.” The reporter take a picture and uses the citation “Abdulhamid Ashehneh, 12, works on
In the non-fiction book called Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, a major concept portrayed is inequality. Katherine Boo explicitly discusses the struggles of people living in Annawadi, a slum in Mumbai, India. All the struggles the Annawadians face are derived from the inequality they encounter due to being in poverty. This concept is portrayed in my visual representation in various ways. First, the front cover of the “book” I created contains images of luxurious airports and hotels located near Annawadi. It also contains images of clothing worn by the wealthy people who stayed in the luxurious hotels and traveled through the luxurious airports. The purpose of these images is to portray the life of the wealthy people in India and showcase the ignorant view a
She was very intelligent back in South Vietnam where she understood the language and culture of her peers and teacher. In her classroom at school, the rude bully she is being bullied by is up at the chalkboard trying to do math that he just can’t figure out. “Pink Boy// stands at the board.// He can’t multiply 18 by 42.// I go to the board,// chalk the answer// in five moves.// My cheekbones lift// to the ceiling// until I see horror// on the faces// of Pem and SSsi-Ti-Van” (Lai 187). This shows character development because it shows how Ha is so used to how things were done at her old home, she doesn’t understand how people in her new home act. So her brain and body are developing to her new
In the critically acclaimed and contemporary film “ Get Out” directed by Jordan Peele, illustrates the raw and honest viewpoints of the main character Chris and his role of photography, for being seen as a weapon, symbolism, and safety.
Refugees share similar experiences and emotions when they move to a new country. The book Inside Out and Back Again splits these feelings into two categories, “inside out” and “back again”. Refugees from around the world experience these feelings. For instance, it is easy for a refugee to feel “inside out” when learning a new language, or they can feel “back again” when they find a familiar object that reminds them of their past. Many refugees mainly struggle with learning a new language, but to make them feel more comfortable, they can find satisfaction in items from their home land.
Backroads begins with Harley being questioned by the police for a crime that the reader knows not of. He delves into the story that has brought him up to this point, beginning from a year after his mother shot his father. The events in the course of this are breath taking.
In order to raise awareness of the staggering injustices, oppression and mass poverty that plague many Indian informal settlements (referred to as slum), Katherine Boo’s novel, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, unveils stories of typical life in a Mumbai slum. Discussing topics surrounding gender relations, environmental issues, and corruption, religion and class hierarchies as well as demonstrating India’s level of socioeconomic development. Encompassing this, the following paper will argue that Boo’s novel successfully depicts the mass social inequality within India. With cities amongst the fastest growing economies in South Eastern Asia, it is difficult to see advances in the individual well-being of the vast majority of the nation. With high
Mise-en-scéne is something that we see in movies all the time. It’s translated from French and means the staging the different aspects of a movie such as setting, lighting, subjects, or almost anything else. Any common movie, such as Inside Out, shows Mise-en-snéne in it. Three big parts of Mise-en-scéne that are shown in the movie Inside Out are cinematography, sound, and editing. Inside Out uses all of these by describing a plot in which there are feelings in our brains which connect to different memories that we can remember at any time. There were five main emotions that controlled the person on the outside whose name was Riley. The five emotions were named, Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. They helped Riley as she moved away from
The Outsiders is about the life of a 14-year-old boy. The book tells the story of Ponyboy “Curtis” and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers, Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16, have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids."
Mulan seems to be a feminist film which encourages individual women to take care of themselves. However, the film is not free from traditional gender roles. While the film may be progressive by removing the "damsel in distress" plot, further analysis shows it isn’t a feminist film at all. Disney’s Mulan reinforces a black and white societal role of gender that privilege men over women. In contrast the poem is incredibly progressive, it shows a woman fighting just as well as men and men accepting her as a powerful warrior not being jealous of her power. The poem removes gender roles whereas the Disney movie reinforces them.
The news of my relocation hit me like a bus. It wasn’t the fact that I would have to go to a new and unfamiliar area that frightened me so much, but the fact that America meant perfecting the language of English. My cousins set the standards for me extremely high. I knew that it would be difficult to adapt to a new school, but my family explained the benefits of going to high school at Eastern. They said Eastern would provide me copious amounts of opportunities, where if I worked hard and took advantage of said opportunities, I would flourish. Still, the fear that took over essentially paralyzed me. I remember my freshman English accelerated class, My first day is still so vivid, embedded in my mind. Panic rushed through my spine as I pondered outside of the 800 hallway, walking back in forth from outside my English class to the guidance office. “Kaya ko ba ‘to? Pano kung tawanan lang nila ako?” I thought to myself, “Can i do this? What if they laugh at me?” I pondered, nervous that my thick accent and mediocre english vocabulary would land me in the back of the class, the stupid row, where the delinquents sat, the ones who didn’t care about the book and just watched the movie. This experience was unfamiliar to me. I’m 16 years old and somehow I’ve lived in 3 countries, went through 5 different schools, and spoke 5 different languages and never felt like I was unworthy of being in a class or school. I always