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Papayas, Hà's favorite fruit, symbolize Hà herself. The papaya tree in Hà's family's backyard grew from a seed that Hà flicked outside. Since Hà threw the seed out there, it's grown exponentially—just equally Hà has grown from toddler to a x-year-onetime child in the years before the novel begins. At the get-go of the book, Hà excitedly watches her papaya tree bear fruit for the first time. She describes the papayas as growing from thumb-size to the size of her fist, genu, and caput. Likening the papayas to parts of her ain body reinforces that the papayas are symbols for Hà, and their greenish, underripe country mirrors Hà youthful, innocent state at the start of the novel. When Hà's family unit is and so forced to abscond South Vietnam earlier the papayas are ripe, this situation represents Hà'south relatively happy childhood in Vietnam being cut short.
Once Hà and her family settle in Alabama, Hà no longer has access to papaya. This is insult added to injury for her, and it makes her experience unmoored and asunder from her old self, who lived happily in Vietnam and enjoyed fresh fruit regularly. So, Hà isn't initially impressed when MiSSSisss WaSShington, subsequently learning that papayas are Hà's favorite fruit, gives Hà a bundle of dried, sugared papaya for Christmas. Information technology's nothing like fresh papaya, which highlights the idea that few people, if whatsoever, in the U.Due south. understand Hà or her Vietnamese culture. The dried and sugared papaya is essentially an Americanized repackaging of Vietnamese culture, and Hà resents this immensely. Withal, Hà ultimately makes practise when she discovers that Female parent soaked the stale papaya, which dissolved the sugar and rehydrated the papaya into something that better approximates the fresh papaya Hà misses. The papaya's physical transformation mirrors Hà'due south own internal transformation as she starts to feel more secure in her identity as a Vietnamese immigrant living in the U.S. By the novel'southward end, Hà is still adjusting, but she's more comfortable with her new life and with finding approximations of the Vietnamese things she loves.
Papaya Quotes in Within Out and Back Again
The Inside Out and Back Once more quotes below all refer to the symbol of Papaya. For each quote, yous tin also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, similar this one:
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V papayas
the sizes of
my caput,
a human knee,
ii elbows,
and a thumb
cling to the body.
Nonetheless green
merely promising.
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Mother says yellow papaya
tastes lovely
dipped in chili salt.
Y'all children should consume
fresh fruit
while you lot tin can.
Brother Vū chops;
the head falls;
a silver blade slices.
Blackness seeds spill
like clusters of eyes,
wet and crying.
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The first hot bite
of freshly cooked rice,
plump and nutty,
makes me imagine
the gustatory modality of ripe papaya
although one has nothing
to practice with the other.
Related Characters: Kim Hà (speaker)
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Yet
on the dining tabular array
on a plate
sit strips of papaya
gooey and damp,
having been soaked in hot water.
The carbohydrate has melted off
leaving
plump
moist
chewy
bites.
Hummm…
Non the same,
but peachy
at all.
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Papaya Symbol Timeline in Inside Out and Back Again
The timeline beneath shows where the symbol Papaya appears in Inside Out and Back Again. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...the narrator is 10. As a 10-year-old, she can acquire embroidery and can watch her papaya tree bear fruit. She was mad last night when Female parent insisted that i of the... (full context)
...idea how much Hà'southward brothers torment her, merely Hà adores her female parent anyhow. When Hà'southward papaya tree bears fruit, she'll give Mother showtime pick of the papayas. (full context)
Papaya Tree. Hà's papaya tree grew from a black seed. At present, it's twice as alpine equally Hà. Brother Khôi,... (full context)
Two More Papayas. At the beginning of April, Hà spots two more than papayasouthward on her tree. They're "Two greenish thumbs" that by summertime will be sweet and orangey... (full context)
...sweet potato plant in the window, and Hà wants it so it can climb her papaya tree. She pinches Tram again; Tram is the teacher's pet and will get the establish. (full context)
Promises. There are now five papayadue south on the tree. Some of them are as big as Hà's head; others are equally... (full context)
...matter what Mother says: he has to protect his chick, and Hà must protect her papayas. They hook pinkies. (total context)
Wet and Crying. Hà's biggest papaya is light yellow flecked with dark-green. Brother Vū wants to cut information technology down so the... (full context)
...When Hà takes her first bite of rice, the taste makes her imagine what ripe papaya tastes like, even though the two foods have cipher to do with each other. (total context)
...she'southward written. She draws shredded kokosnoot, corn on the cob, fried dough, pineapple wedges, and papaya cubes. Mother smooths Hà's hair. She understands how painful information technology is to exist stranded on... (full context)
...what Mother says, she can't finish wishing for Father, just like Hà tin't stop tasting papaya in her dreams. (full context)
...SScott is showing the course where Hà is from, but she should've called pictures of papayasouthward, or of Tet. Information technology seems unbelievable, but sometimes Hà would rather exist in Saigon during... (full context)
Hà gasps when she sees a picture of a papaya tree heavy with ripe papayas. Excited, she shouts, "Du du!" and says, "best food." She... (total context)
Not the Aforementioned. The package MiSSSisss WaSShington gave Hà contains dried papaya. This papaya is chewy, waxy, and sticky—it'south not like papaya at all. Hà is so... (full context)
...Hà refuses. Instead, she goes to bed and stares at the picture of a real papaya tree. Will she ever get to eat a fresh papaya once again? Female parent'south gong rings out,... (full context)
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