Section A02
This story of getting clean and getting his life back together was an interesting one. It showed a perspective that I have never experienced due to the fact that I was born in the US. Growing up I had always heard from my mom stories about her fears of getting deported from Chile and Brazil (she left Korea when she was 8), but it's still hard to fully comprehend anything you personally haven't experienced. I'm surprised Thi didn't mention anything about drugs when he was talking about his troubles with the law. Doesn't the fact that he was staying at a halfway house imply drug usage? Another thing that was really surprising was how he excelled in school. This proves that in the end, while education does play a part, education isn't going to stop people from crime. Thi mentions that he fell into a coma, and consequently forgot to speak Cambodian, but why does he place so much significance on it? Did he think remembering how to speak Cambodian would have changed things significantly for the better? The part of the article that really stuck out to me was how appreciative he was of his parents and family. The fact that he realizes that he messed up A LOT, but his family still stayed and supported him probably helped him out the most.
Did his coma really make that much of a difference in the outcome of his life?
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