Looking through Google Reader, I found a lot of similar family histories by my classmates that shared various connections with the one I shared about my dad’s difficult journey in his home country Yemen. Not all connections were clear at first but in some way, each one of these parts from my classmate’s family histories showed a connection.
In Vy Troung’s family history :
In Vy’s family history, she tells us about the difficult journey her parents went through just to get into the Philippines and eventually, America. They were going through hard times, especially since the war had begun to devastate their country. By arriving to America, the hope of a better life for her parents and the thought of their children in mind was going to work. In Vy’s story, her family goes through extreme hardships so that she can grow up to have a good life. Though my parents didn’t go through the same rigorous journey, they had the same idea in mind of gaining opportunity and a better life in America for both them and their children.
Leaving out the love story, Max’s dad also traveled to America in search of opportunity:
As Max says, it was a big step moving to the United States. There is a life that you must leave behind and once in America, start a new one.
In Vy Troung’s family history :
“My parents were raised during the Vietnam war as they were getting older they knew that to get a better life for their family they would have to move to the United States. When my parents got married and had my sister. My dad and his brothers were forced to work in mining for the
communist. They did not want to work because they were scared of getting sick or losing their family so they decided to take their family and run.”
In Vy’s family history, she tells us about the difficult journey her parents went through just to get into the Philippines and eventually, America. They were going through hard times, especially since the war had begun to devastate their country. By arriving to America, the hope of a better life for her parents and the thought of their children in mind was going to work. In Vy’s story, her family goes through extreme hardships so that she can grow up to have a good life. Though my parents didn’t go through the same rigorous journey, they had the same idea in mind of gaining opportunity and a better life in America for both them and their children.
Leaving out the love story, Max’s dad also traveled to America in search of opportunity:
“Leaving the states for the first time was a big step for him, he had never been so far away from home and family before. So he said his goodbyes and ventured to America. As he arrived he was already bewildered by the things he saw. Though quickly ignoring them on focusing on task, with the little money he had left he got a taxi and got a ride to Liz's place.”
As Max says, it was a big step moving to the United States. There is a life that you must leave behind and once in America, start a new one.
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