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 ....