ARRIVAL

In the article “Ru”, the author Kim Thuy recalled why she exiled to Canada and her feelings when she arrived in Canada. She would never forget what happened to her and her family.

Kim Thuy was born in 1968 in Saigou that was the capital of South Vietnam at that time. South Vietnam ceased to exist in 1975 when North Vietnam successfully conquered the South Vietnam. Though her family gave up half their property, the communist didn’t leave them alone, who asked inspectors to come to her house and sealed almost every containers. Her parents felt unsafe there, so they decided to exile to Canada.

In the Part Five, Kim Thuy described her feeling and what she saw in her memory when she firstly arrived at Mirebel Airport in Montreal. When she saw white and shinning snow banks, she felt naked in such a white snow because she has never seen the snow in Vietnam, and she finished the terrible life in the boat where there was no day and night. Although her thin clothes made her completely exposed in such cold weather, but she feel excited and shocked when she saw the welcoming people. In the new country, everything is fresh for her, and this is her heaven. In her opinion, there are a lot of appetizers and snacks in the heaven, and this is her dream when she floated on the sea. When she stayed at boat, she thought that heaven and hell’s distance was so close. Fortunately, she arrived in Canada-her heaven, and she began her new life and new challenge.