Summary Of 'The Unwanted'

A Time of Helplessness The Unwanted is a Memoir written by Kien Nguyen of his childhood, and all the hardships him and his family faced. This memoir allows us to see the fall of Saigon from Kien’s perspective. A lot of the events in this book are hard to fathom and sometimes hard to read. The family went through a lot more than I can imagine. One thing I can pick out from this Memoir is the family felt a lot of helplessness in many different ways. Along with: fear, courage hope, hopelessness, and many more.
The Nguyen family, along with aunts, uncles, cousins, and family friends went through many hardships and tragedies. Many of these tragedies were very unfortunate. The family lived in Nhatrang which was a capitalist community, until the tragedy came upon everyone with the fall of Saigon. The communists were going to take over. Kien and his family heard the …show more content…
Along with the Dang family who were friends of the Nguyen’s knew they needed to do something as well. They were just a little better off than the Nguyen’s, as in they had some sort of plan. The Dang’s were taken to Bangkok on an airplane, but Mrs. Dang was left behind because her papers for a passport were lost in the mail. Her family had to leave her behind, and she was very distraught. “My family, my children are gone”
(35). Mrs. Dang couldn’t forget the image of her children and family leaving as she had to be left behind. “Mommy! Mommy! My heart broke with his cry. His hand, covered with chocolate stained my clothes” (35). “They took my children away. I fell on the ground. I cried and cried while that helicopter took my children away from me. I just wanted to die. Oh, Khuon. Why is all this happening? When is this nightmare going to end?” (35). This shows Mrs. Dang was really running out of any hope left when the most important people in her life were taken away from