Although she has turned eighteen and is no longer in the US foster care system, she is very intelligent and ambitious and enjoys learning about her past even though he knows it might hurt to find out where he comes from. She attends an Ivy League school and continues to try to see what it was like when she was a child in Vietnam. I would like to believe that if I had been sent to a different country as a child, I would have wanted to know my real country of origin. I may not have been born in Ireland, but my ancestors were originally from there, so naturally I'm a little curious as to how my entire family came to America. He has a hard time because he doesn't have much information about her past, but he still goes to visit her when Huan and Gwen go, so he can still see what his family's past was like. Kim had a more bitter attitude and tried to find her real mother in Vietnam. In America she seems to lead a dark life because she couldn't connect with who she should have been if she had grown up in Vietnam. I can see Huan's side of the story because he is mixed race and cannot fully side with the Vietnamese people because he doesn't fully see himself as themselves. When he was dating Emily, he also said that it would be better if he were even half white and that if he were fully Vietnamese it would be great. Instead, he has to deal with being seen as different when he already doesn't want to be visiting Vietnam. In the end, however, I think he enjoyed it a little more than I thought he would, but he was still uncomfortable exploring a past that he sees as a time period in his life that wasn't wanted. Even if you are from another country you can still have questions about the past because when you are young you don't remember how