The Article "Leaving my mountain home" by Mai X. Her, can relate to many immigrants from worldwide countries fleeing their countries to pursue a better life. This article grabs a reader's attention to learn of the many sacrifices families worldwide face in their lifetime but most importantly the main concept of the article is actually expressed and based on a true story. It interprets a child's view and how a "risk for all" incident greatly reminds her of her culture, race and ethnicity. Although this short article may only interpret key elements of the authors" main point (refugees), it not only reminds the reader of difficult choices families as well as individuals make, but also how growing up with a different lifestyle and adapting to another country's beliefs and rituals, continue to remind each and everyone where their culture and ethnicity is traditionally inherited from.
Summary of the Article .
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 that would forever change their lives. .
Due to living amongst the rivalry between communist and armed forces, this threatened the well being of her family and forced them to flee from their country in order to evade being killed or possibly captured like many other families within her town (Katsuyo, 1990). And despite the fact that their town contained a small population of nearly one to two hundred people, the unity amongst the town was physically powerful in marching to freedom as a whole. The author for example stated, "the road was long, sad, and tiring" (Katsuyo, 1990 p.90) but yet many were wiling to sacrifice being killed in the attempt to flee from their country in exchange from freedom.
