Last Chance to Pass

                          
 

Final Last Chance To Past: Hunger of Memory & An American Story

      Hunger of Memory is a story written about this little boys inspired about his childhood. He wrote this story because he started school only knowing fifty words in English. He was the only Spanish speaker in his class. At this school called Scared Heart School in Sacramento California. This story began in his early boyhood. Where his parents managed very well in America.  His father had a good job and his mother managed the house they lived in . Long to short this story was also about they not being welcomed were they lived and being not wanted from the people that lived there. But they got over that and continued there lives there lives there even if they were stil not wanted they achieved it. Lastly this story was also about how the little boy remembered how he used to be the only one knowing  Spanish and a little English. Also how he remembered the intimidating sounds of English spoken from people in the streets were he lived. This is why I say that this storys theme is public lives vs private lives.

     An American story is based on this family immigrating because the Vietnam war that began in the 1950s and ended 1975. This war was pretty long if you tell me. This war was about the Vietnam and the united state trying to unsuccessfully preventing the communist of North Vietnam from taking over South Vietnam. The story began in thanksgiving weekened. When this ten year old Vietnamese boy arrived to the country as a refugee. If you don’t know what the word refugee means it means a person who has been force to leave there country in order to escape persecution or natural disaster. The boy was with his family. His mother, his four sisters and a brother.  This family goes through a lot of thing in there way. They were called the Vietnam boat people. They travelled in boats to get where they were heading. Long story to short the family was escaping. At a point each of the people in that family got separated. The first remembered left behind were Viet Dinhs father and Phong dinh. Phong dinh was on the run because he escaped from the camp. His wife and children had left . Long story to short the family gets to reunite after  fifteen years of not hearing anything about each other.  This is why the theme for this story I think was some people go through immigrating and is really hard and dangerous. On what some people do to get a better life. It is a big risk that they take. The risk they can take is either not making it They getting caught by the patrol boats. Or because of food. These are risk they take not be healthy enough.

       These two stories had things not so common. Like I said each of these stories have different themes for me. One storys theme was public lives vs private lives .The other storys theme was about immigrating and taking a big risk in there lives. Something these to stories I think they had in common is that they both had something to do with there own family. Also that they go through bad things in there lives. Lastly these to stories finished with a good ending not a bad ending even though they been through not so good things in there lives.