The Happiest Refugee written by Anh Do, is a story of his life and the struggles that his family went through. All of the struggles that his family encountered they stuck together and got through them. The Do family originated from Vietnam and took an overloaded boat to Australia in 1980 to start their new lives. Anh’s family struggled to make money in the beginning but that did not change they ways that they saw each other, they saw each other as a kind, loving family. Some of the times that the Do family stuck together was when Anh’s mother Hein started to make clothes in their living room and Anh’s father Tam stopped his job to make clothes too, “Dad left the job at the factory and started making clothes with mum.” (Chapter 3, page 36). Within months there was a whole team of aunties and uncles helping, “soon we had three uncles, four aunties and several distant cousins helping” (Chapter 3, page 36).
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Another example of a positive influence was when their boat arrived in Australia and Anh’s mother always was open to housing people as she wanted to give back to others for excepting her family in to their country, “As you grow up, you make sure you do as much as you can to give back to this country that gave us a second chance.” (Chapter 3, page
Another example of a positive influence was when their boat arrived in Australia and Anh’s mother always was open to housing people as she wanted to give back to others for excepting her family in to their country, “As you grow up, you make sure you do as much as you can to give back to this country that gave us a second chance.” (Chapter 3, page