The Question and Answer section for Inside Out and Back Again is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In context, their questions are all reasonable... they know nothing about their father's whereabouts, and they are grasping as straws. I think they are well aware thet their father wouldn't just run off and start a new family or join a...
From the text:
Mother asks us,
Should we leave our home?
Brother Quang says,
How can we scramble away
like rats,
without honor, without dignity,
when everyone must help
rebuild the country?
Brother Khôi says,
What if Father comes home
and finds his family...
From the text:
My biggest papaya
is light yellow,
still flecked with green.
Brother V wants
to cut it down,
saying it’s better than
letting the Communists have it.
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Brother V...
