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Key events:
> The protagonist, Toan and his family arrive at Sydney Airport 1986.
> Toan's father Minh, reunites with a friend from the Vietnam War named Thanh (they haven't seen each other for 10 years).
> Thanh was in the re education camp

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Chapter 1: Smoke on the Breeze (p.11-19)

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Chapter 1: Smoke on the Breeze (p.11-19)

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> The family were living in fear in their home town of Rach Gia, South Vietnam.
> The children were in trouble for yelling out “Vuot bien” which could have put the family in great danger/ risk of being punished or death. > Toan felt responsible for his father being taken away by Party officials. He was sent to a re education camp.

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Linh further explains her experiences in the war
- Linh was completely different from other children but she wasn't afraid of soldiers.
- She also continued to mention how her father died after being in the army doing recon work. Can u not copy me

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- Toans acknowledging his grandfather, and what he did for his family in the war. He survived the Great Depression and had to build everything from scratch (he was 69 years old)
- After toans father was taken away to the re education camp, it made him stronger and he learned to be strong, and think wisley a young age.
- when Toan was younger, during the war times, he felt very uncertain about his surroundings "never being able to speak your thoughts without looking over your shoulder". At this time getting shot was a real possibility. This caused suspense knowing that he could've been shot at any second.
- the currency change caused major poverty, and depression because people who'd been saving for a while couldn't use the money. It was completely useless.

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Key events
> Toan and his family start their great escape, leaving the grandmother on the balcony of their home in Vietnam
> We are introduced to Miro, Linhs boyfriend
> They all have a new start in the new year
> Minh is outside, frustrated, trying to start the boat
> Toan and his family escaped Vietnam during the New Years Eve    celebrations, by sneaking out across the river from Rach Gia Bay to reach Australia, at 11pm on the 27th February 1977.agy

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- Toan and his family have started to leave their home in Rach Gia to Australia.

- The family are in hope of starting a better life.

-They are travelling on a wooden boat and were placed under the the timber slats as they were escaping Vietnam.

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-Pirates invade the boat and take the peoples things
- The leader was going to rape Phuong however her mother Mai sacrificed herself for her young daughter
-Linh and Toan's relationship is explained through
-Mai cuts herself and writes "fair exchange" onthe  mirror in the room with the pirates
- Mai kills herself after the traumatic experience with the pirates
-The reason behind Phuong and Linh living with Toan's family is explained

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Chapter 7~ out of the green (one of the shittest chapters)

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Chapter 7~ out of the green (one of the shittest chapters)

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Toan is destined to be lucky

Grandmother of Toan knows things

Family go on a trip on a boat to Malaysia

4 of march 1977 on malang beach the boat arrives

Isyah a mother of a 14 year old mentally damaged son

The son of isyah is Omar and he drowned one day hence why he's disabled

As they arrive people started shooting at them

People jumped off the boats some died and some survived(17 people died)

Toan was about to drown but was saved by isyah

Toan sees isyah face on the statue of their God Quan yin

He survive and get to the coast safely

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- they are put into a staging camp in malaysia
- they are made to stay in large tin sheds with hundreds of other refugees.
- the sheds are hot and windy and no one has any privacy.
- Linh and Toan find ways to make fun by playing underneath the tin sheds

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Key Events:
- Moved from Janganoon Camp to Pulau Bisa, a small island near Malaysia.
- Toan and Phuong notice a group (gang) around their age and identify the gangs' leader as confident and handsome.

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Key events
-  phoung meets cang for the first time
- phoung is still holding onto her mother thinking she will come back
- she starts to get caught up in gangs
- phoung explodes at her family due to the stress of her mother, blaming the family for what happened. But inside she feels like it's her fault

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- Toan's mother and father took the children on a boat trip to Janganoon.
- They went on bus to the city. The children experienced new sights and smells.
- Toan called and made an appointment to audition for a lead television role.

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Chapter 12 is about Cang and his gang in more depth with Linh seeing a different side of Cang that Phuong has never seen before. The killing of a man not only changes a mind of a person but also a 9 year old watching from the sideline. Toan meets his best friend, Kieu, in Cabramatta after not seeing each other for 10 years.

This book is trash

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Chapter 13: Before the Death of Innocence 

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Chapter 13: Before the Death of Innocence 

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* A fire breaks out in their hut when they are asleep.
* Minh, Hoa and their sons escape the house while Phoung was left behind.
* They all thought everyone was out, but realised that Phoung was still in the burning hut
* Cang hears the people asking for where Phoung was, a man was going to go in to save Phoung but Cang pushed him aside and told him that he will go in.
* Cang goes into the hut, only to sacrifice his life to save Phoung.

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Key events:
They found themselves going on a trip but there was first no explanation to this trip.
It seemed all set up and unexplained but planned. It wasn't exciting. Toans father had disappeared and later on Toan and the family had seen him come out of an expensive looking hotel while holding a paper in shook.
The family had kept walking around for the rest of the afternoon in an orderly pattern over and over again.
Than he came out of the hotel once again but things took a turn for the worse this hotel was a different one it was more fancier and larger than the others.
When we had found the right hotel and then found out his trip had been cut short by an official and he was to return to the capital.
Toans father had came a long way and realised it wasn't time to give up and he'd decided to take all his sacrifices to get what he's been striving for. And he had enough money for the bus ride to Kuala Lumpur.

The risks that they had found hard to complete was because they wanted a better life and wanted to leave what they had behind

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- Linh further explains her experiences in the war
- Linh was completely different from other children but she wasn't afraid of soldiers.
-she also continued to mention how her father died after being in the army doing recon work.

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Linh further explains her experiences in the war
- linh was completely different from other children but she wasn't afraid of soldiers.
-she also continued to mention how her father died after being in the army doing recon work.