Inside Out & Back Again: Background Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a person who chooses to live permanently in a foreign country
  2. 3. a work of art, like a book, that is based in part on the author’s own life
  3. 4. our ability to understand and share in how someone feels; feeling sad with someone in response to their experience
  4. 8. a work of art, like a book, that is based on the author’s own life
  5. 9. a person who regularly moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions
  6. 10. short for Têt Nguyên Đán, the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture, which falls on the first day of Lunar New Year [Saturday 10 February this year]
  7. 11. a person who is forced to leave their home because of conflict, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters, who has crossed an international border
Down
  1. 1. movement of people to settle in a new area, region, country, or continent
  2. 2. a person who is forced to leave their home because of conflict, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters, who has not crossed an international border
  3. 5. a type of government as well as an economic system in which the government, not individual people or businesses, do not own land, factories, or machinery
  4. 6. our relief at not having to share in how someone feels; feeling pity for someone in response to their experience
  5. 7. the Communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War from 1954 - 1975