Chapter Seven~ A Different View

I found the title of this chapter to be very appropriate Bay Ly returned to Ky La to find her family home in shambles. Her father was reduced to a living skeleton. She knew her father was dying. When her efforts to find help at the American Military camp were thwarted by the misanthropic translator, she cared for him herself. But, her father could not take the pain and strife that comes with protecting a family during war. He committed suicide by swallowing acid. Though she went through a period of personal grief, she reached a TURNING POINT: "I saw that a determination to live, no matter what, was more powerful than a willingness to die... I believed my father's death was his way of giving me eternal peace- not in the hearafter, but for every instant of every day I was alive... From my father's death, I finally learned how to live"(Hayslip, 215).