1. The cover at first didn't really have a effect on me. I just thought of it as a the Hmong people in from of a bus. But now that I've heard it its fitting because its the orange bus that Kao Kalia Yang said would take her to america. And the bus that her grandmother thought would break her family apart.
2. I think she started the book like this to give us something to look back at or keep in mind during the book. My first impression from the book was that it was going to be a good book. And that the book would not only be about her family but Hmong people in general.
3. I didn't know before about the secret war. But now that I know I do thing that the US has at least a little responsibility to the Hmong people in Laos.
6. How we first see a person can effect people. Like if the fist thing you notice is their looks and you base how they are off of that. I think the Yang's are able to stay so grounded in their culture even tho they have moved mile away from their original home because their around each other so much. And they all started out in the same place and experiencing the same thing. So they wall have something to connect to.
8. Yang not speaking shows that part of the immigrant experience might be dealing with feeling the lose of your whole culture and life. Language and how we do things is such a big part in who we are. But when we have to leave part or even all of that behind. For anyone old or young that would be hard.
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