This article entails an Asian family living in a mountainous top of Laos in the mid 1970’s. Though the setting may seem peaceful and tranquil, the author provides detailed and nearly death experiences that affected her family and how the “march to freedom” (Katsuyo, 1990 p.91) would be an event

This article can relate to a common example of a headline story we may see throughout the media from countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba, El Salvador, and Venezuela due to rivalry between dissenting political groups and modern warfare (Sisouphantong, 2000). Refugees seek to pursue happiness and freedom in foreign countries and it is due to the fair treatment that they decide to stay and not return. To better understand the author’s environment and country, a detailed map was needed to best interpret and present this article to other colleagues with detailed paths that refugee’s seeked in the mid 70’s.

Secondly, Mei’s view of the world changed due to the march to freedom when she realized how much she needed to sacrifice in order to obtain the freedom she once had in her home town. Mei and her family realized the only way to evade the communist soldiers was to become refugees and sacrifice leaving everything behind for their own safety. Even though being forced to move from Laos to settle along the west bank of the Mekong River was a difficult challenge for many families, the pattern of population displacement that arose from power struggles between neighboring groups, has continued to carry on over centuries (Fox, 1998).

Another obvious element picked up from the reading is that the article was written in simple and basic English, thus meaning her English was limited. This is a common trait however, in being that most immigrants will attempt to learn the techniques to read, write, and speak of a different language to adapt and communicate with others.

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