Saigon brought new exprencies and a new life to Le Ly and her mother, and now they have to leave the new life they just began. The hope of a promising life in Saigon has been crushed with the baby that now lies in Le Ly's womb expressed in the syllepsis below.
"Now, what seedling homes I nourished had been crushed by the human seedling I carried in my body" (168).
Hung, Le Ly's newborn son brought her a new perspective on life in Danang. Le Ly became an independent woman and began to overcome her prejudice of the Americans. By working in a business selling souvineers to American soldiers, she discovered that not all men were cruel, but that some had good integrity. Through this business she earned enough money to buy a house for herself, her mom, and her son. Le Ly turned a hopeless situation to one that transformed her opinions of men and changed her has an individual. Le Ly never gave up on herself or her family.
This situation reminds me of playing a basketball game. If my team is down twenty, it's really easy to give up and lose hope in winning the game. It's very tiring to push through and try to come back from the point defecit. No matter how much my team is down, I will not give up, now matter how great the temptation is to lose focus. Sometimes when we push through and make a come back we come out with the win. There are times when we come close but don't quite come back all the way and lose. With either winning or losing the feeling of not giving up makes me happy. Whenever I play, my goal is to have no regrets, which means never to give up and play hard the whole game. Not giving up is a lesson that is valuable in all aspects of life, not just sports.
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