As Le Ly continues to grow into a mature lady, she is forced to begin her own life. At first, her choices lead her astray from the customs and practices of the time and she is challenged to discover herself. She is exiled from her community, the only community she has ever known, after being brutally and emotionally violated wrongly by those she had tried to help. Le Ly and her mother are forced to begin a new life and are challenged to learn how to survive in a confusing world different from their own safe farm. Le Ly describes her struggles using tautology as shown below to describe her feelings.
"I had no idea what these confused new feelings could mean." (124)
Her journey leads to her search for a better life as she becomes an unwed mother and her search for the strength to move on as she returns to Vietnam in 1986. Her struggles for acceptance and search for new life are similar to those faced by nearly every person today. From school to businesses and politics, people fight daily to find support and love from others. Whether one has moved to a new place or is trying to find a new hope in life, people constantly struggle to understand and find their way. Guided by their feelings, people look to the past in hope to find a better future like Le Ly on her return journey to Vietnam. No matter how smooth the path, journeys are unpredictable and one may "lose the way."
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