Inside Out and Back Again by Zhiani Rojas-Venta

Kim Ha (8)

rojazhia1 — 2024-09-10 15:36:15 UTC

Kim Ha's three older brothers and she is the only girl in the family.
Kim her friend gave her the tin of seeds that they were going to plant together.
Kim Ha has to move but she has to take certain things because they can't take a lot of things with them.
Kim Ha had to cut down her papaya tree because they did not want the people to have them.
Kim Ha gets bullied in school.
Kim Ha is confused about school and the cafeteria.
Kim Ha tells her mother everything that she did back home.
Kim Ha blame herself because she taped her big toe on the till floor and she thinks that it is bad karma.

rojazhia1 — 2024-09-10 15:36:21 UTC

Mother is deciding to move because she wants her kids to live a new life so they can start fresh.
Mother is taking certain things with her because she does not want to take so many things. She burned the other things that were there because she did not want people to know that she was living in that house she did not want anything against her husband.
Mother is always sad because she can see her husband and it has been 9 years since she saw him.
Mother picks to go to America because she wants her kids to get a good education and finish school.
Mother lost the amethyst ring that her husband gave her and that was a sign that he was gone and coming back.
Mother got a job at a sewing factory.
Mother chants so Father can come back.
A mother is a caring person.

rojazhia1 — 2024-09-10 15:36:27 UTC

It has been 9 years seen the last time the father saw he's family.
He was not a bad person and he is missing.
He died and he did not come back home to his family.
He likes stewed eels.
He did not like the afternoon sun.
He hates the color brown.
He hates cold rice.
He would follow Mother all around the kitchen repeating I'm starving for stewed eel.

rojazhia1 — 2024-09-10 15:37:00 UTC

Brother Khoi brought a chick on the boat and it died.
Bother Khoi did not want to move to a different city.
He cares about nature because he saved his eggs just to hatch a chick.
He is 15 years old.
He is taller than Ha.
Another reason that he did not want to leave was because he thought his Father would return.
He left behind some jars that he would use for fighting fish as a hobby.
Ha and Khoi are close because they both did not want to leave their house because of some reason.

rojazhia1 — 2024-09-10 15:37:10 UTC

He teaches Kim Ha how to defend herself.
He changes his name to Vu Lee.
He shows off his moves and he gets altos of girls.
He loves Bruce Lee.
He likes to teach little kids.
He can ride a bike.
He wanted to move because he wanted to walk on the ground that Bruce Lee walked on.
He sewed a cowboy leather belt on Mother's machine.

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He let Kim Ha's family live in his house.
He takes Brother Quang to fix cars.
He sends Kim Ha and her brother Vu to school.
He pays the rent.
He goes so threatening in his house.
He likes the family and they have someone to help in fixing cars.
He is a caring person because he let someone he does not know in his house and did not care at all.
He does not care who you are because he left a family. that he every knew and he just let them in.

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