Chapter Seven - A Different View - Grown Up

As the story continues, the narrator (Le Ly) continues to move on with her life. Her souvenir business continued for a couple years after she had been caught selling fake illegal drugs. On an occasion, Le Ly decides to go back to her village. Her mother and sister are reluctant but Le goes anyway. When she arrives she finds that her father has been severely beaten and is dehydrated. All of her childhood memories are destroyed with sights of her once perfect little village. As she stays, she begins to notice that all of her childhood friends are now married or have moved away. "I discovered that most kids I grew up with (those who had not been killed in the fighting) had married or moved away (Hayslip 198)." To me this statement is powerful because Le Ly had gone through absolute, horrible situation. She was forced out of her innocence and into the life of adulthood. When Le Ly realized that all of the aspect of her childhood were gone, all she was left with was memories.