Coming Back, Le Ly Hayslip, "When Heaven And Earth Changed Places"-FLASHBACK

This book starts out with a FLASHBACK. The first chapter is about the author's birth. She was only 2 pounds when she was born and her family thought she was not going to survive. The book goes along with telling about her life as a child and how their family survived with little that they had. Her family worked on the rice farm that they lived on and owned.This chapter is a FLASHBACK because she lives in America in present time but goes back to Vietnam and the book starts out with how she started her life in Vietnam. Le Ly writes in this chapter, "Coming back always sets things straight"(24). This statement is important because you can tell that she has had a rough life and need to go home to set things right. This quote is related to real life because most people in there life has to go back to one part of their life and set things right with their self and others. The past is always fulled with regret and hard times which we need to forgive and forget about.