Question

Based on the poems on pages 42–47, what is the decision Ha’s family is trying to make? Is this decision challenging for them? Why or why not?

Answer 1

The poems show that Ha's family must decide to leave South Vietnam for an unknown destination unless they must suffer the fate of their father arrested by the Communists and suffer hunger and deprivations of the raging war between North and South Vietnam.

 

• The decision to leave is challenging because they have to abandon their father to the Communists without knowing his fate

• It is a difficult decision because, at first, they do not know where they are escaping or their chances of outsmarting the ubiquitous Communists.

 

• The decision to escape from South Vietnam is challenging to Ha's family because they will now have to live in a cultural setting that is discriminating.

 

Thus, it remains a difficult decision to leave one's home for an unknown land.

Read more about the Ha's family in "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai at brainly.com