Buo Doi To understand who Ricky was and what he became you have to look at what he was exposed to and what he went through starting at a very young age. As a child in Vietnam he had no childhood as he worked selling bread on the streets to help his family. The abandoned childhood made him angry as he watched the school children his age “play” while he had to work. He experienced …showed first 75 words of 627 total…

…showed last 75 words of 627 total…left home he never came back both emotionally and physically. He was a lost soul always longing for a childhood, family, power, money, and acceptance. Ironically he risked everything including his life to find a better way of life by coming to America. for what? Ultimately he ends up in prison with nothing, which he sums up by saying, “I was always drifting, now everything has stopped moving and I only dream about going home.”