Escape
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"Heigh!" softly uttered Mrs. Sanh, stopping Ty on the way to the pond, while glancing around to be sure no one was near. "Your dad is at Hai-Phong now. He asked me yesterday to tell you to leave as soon as possible."
"No, my dad is at home, Why do you say so?" Ty denied, feeling alarmed.
"Don't be afraid," nicely answered Mrs. Sanh. "I keep secret. We're family members."
"Please, don't talk to anyone, about it, aunt! They'll kill us," Ty begged.
My mother and sister hurriedly planned for the rest of us to run away, since if they discovered my father was in Hai-Phong, they would harm us and made our escape impossible. We decided to go, in two groups. The first and more difficult one which consisted of grand-aunt Tong Bach and me, should leave several days before the second.
"If you have a problem, you must let your sister and grand-aunt stay, in a hotel or a lodge, in Ninh-Giang, and immediately come back alone to inform me. Don't be stupid to take them home!" my mother instructed Hong, the leader.
We would pass Thai-Binh, Ninh-Giang, Cuu River and Kien-An to reach Hai-Phong. It had taken Ty, my sister, several days to walk through the fields, villages and cities, to find out this secret cutting-short way which the local communists did not guard since they thought the only way for us to escape to Hai-Phong was by passing Nam-Dinh, and Ha-Noi.
"Where have you been, in these days, Ms. Ty? I haven't seen you around," asked Mut, a local communist, who was assigned to closely watch us.
"Look! I have been suffering arthritis and cannot go anywhere," replied Ty, showing him her swollen feet because of having excessively walked.
"Heigh! I'm going to Tien-Hung tomorrow to get some medicine. Do you need some pain balm or oil for your feet?" said Mut, believing what he saw.
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About the Book
Do you know anything about the Vietnamese? How much do the Vietnamese young generations know about their ancestors? The answer is, “Not at all.”
Each people are bonded to and influenced deeply by their tradition and culture which others have to find out in order to understand them. Let’s go through the book Escape to fairly evaluate their intellectual values.
Chapter I displays to your eyes respectable, attractive and artistic tributes to Gods which the villagers from all walks of life participated in to accomplish. The well-organized honoring to a high-ranking official’s spirit in his funeral speaks out loud their deep appreciations towards those who bequeathed precious things to them.
You would recognize, when reading through the pages, the Vietnamese cherished education and created to their children a good habit of learning, a fair competition for their advancement, and trained them to fight to overcome obstacles and maintain the good of their culture.
Chapter II reveals to you an official, a hero, who constantly fought to maintain the beauty of his tradition and culture, and strove to trim off the bad. As a revolutionist, he devoted his life to improve the people’s life in building up bridges to better transportation between his village and the surrounding ones and throughout the whole county, improved defective parts of the Common Building Compound and other public facilities, raising beneficial constructing funds which were approved by everybody.
Unfortunately, communists appeared and demolished everything which belonged to the respectable tradition and culture and slaughtered patriots.
This was the reason why the Vietnamese people had to run away from the North for the South in 1954 and to the
About the Author
Her father was unfortunately abducted, at night time, to a watery rice field, and intentionally stabbed to death, by an armed and masked gang. Miraculously, he was alive and was rushed to a hospital in Nam-Dinh, a long distance from their village, in Thai-Binh. They threatened to kill her mother if she continued to travel to the city controlled by the National Government. Her two elder sisters were also forbidden from seeing him.
Her mother thought that she, as a little girl, could take care of her father temporarily, and travel back and forth without being paid attention to. A plan to help her reach the destination was secretly discussed between her mother and her cousins in Bong Dien village, near Tan-De Post, at the Red River bank.
She felt so sad and worried about the treacherous journey and the danger of being arrested, but the deep love for her parents made her accept the task without complaint or declination. Readers, we invite you to see by your own eyes, the passages in Escape to specially understand their situations and figure out if you could have a better resolution.
Difficulties did not make her surrender, but encouraged her to ardently fight for advancement. Self-confidence, diligence, and strong belief helped her succeed in passing three examinations of Junior High School, First, and Second Baccalaureate in
With her continuing positive efforts, you, readers, would find out why, in the