Song+of+the+Buffalo+Boy

__Song of the Buffalo Boy__ is about a girl named Loi. Loi is a half American, half Vietnamese girl who lives with her Ma and Uncle in a small village. Everyone in the village treats Loi badly because she is a half American. Loi is in love with a boy named Khai who is a buffalo boy. She wants to get married to Khai, but her Uncle is making her get married to a man named Officer Hiep. One day when they are selling vegetables and other goods in a bigger city, Loi and Khai meet an American named Raymond Smith. Raymond Smith tell them that since Loi is half American, she and Khai can go to America together. They make a plan to fake Loi's death and run away to go to America but they get separated on the way to Ho Chi Minh City. When Loi gets there, she meets a boy named Joe who is also half American. Joe is very poor and lives on the streets and has to steal food. He helps Loi get food and they start living together. Loi and Joe keep stealing and find out that Khai has come to the Ho Chi Minh City. They keep looking for him, but they never find him. Then Loi meets Raymond Smith again and he offers to take her to America. She decides to go, but right before she leaves she finds Khai and decides to stay and have Joe go in her place.

I learned that almost all the people there are poor. This book takes place in the year 1990, and many of the people there don't know about things that we have. They also dress a lot different than us, it says that they wear //ao doi//'s which I think are some kind of robe. There also are lots of people who live on the streets and have to beg for food, and there is also a lot of crime and stealing. -Dustin. I learned that the Vietnamese still have harsh feelings towards Americans. If you were born with an American father, you were treated way worse than anyone else. You were given few choices in life and nobody wanted you. -Chad I learned that some of the people were treated worse for having an American father and some people wanted to have an American father. I also learned that peoples' husbands were chosen for them. I also learned that people didn't want to marry people with American fathers. -Josh

In my opinion this wasn't a very good book. I learned a lot about the culture, but it didn't have very much action and was kind of boring. It also was a love story and it was kind of girly. -Dustin. In my opinion, this book was long and boring unless you like love stories. They did have some action with the stealing and surviving on the streets. - Chad In my opinion this book would be better for people who are more sensitive. People who are more sensitive would definitely like it better. -Josh