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Only The Heart

The Vietnamese people in had many difficult hardships to go through in order to get to Australia. The book showed how all the different characters responded to these hardships in there own ways. I will talk about the problems before they left Vietnam and how that made them escape. To the extent in which they succeeded and what helped them succeed. And of coarse the problems they had along the way.
The Vo family was living in a village in Vietnam during the war and when communism started to come into action. And it had terrible affects on the people living there. They had to adapt or escape. The Vo family choose to escape. Toan’s father had been taken by the military police because he was ...

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like they lived before or if everything would change, there were many answerable questions and they wanted to get away from it. And after their Grandfather got an assimilation speaker put on his shop roof that was the last straw. They had a big trip ahead of them.
So the families escaped on a filthy boat. The book describes the terrible conditions on the boat quite well I think. The families and everyone on the boat were scared of getting caught, if they did they would be straight back to Vietnam problem in a re- education camp. They were running out of food and fresh water when their first serious hardship came. Pirates found their boat sailing toward Malaysia and boarded it. The main leader Pirate wanted to take Phuong with him because she was beautiful but Mai her mother persuaded him to take her instead. It was a very motherly caring thing to do, but I think any mother would have done that. Well, Mai ends up killing herself because she has no hope with the Pirates. Phuong went ...

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Added: 12/21/2005 06:00:27 AM
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