Only the HeartJoin now to read essay Only the HeartAnd only the prisoner knowsThe dream of freedom on his tongue,Sweet foretaste of the summer wind,That blowsAcross the waving green of the young rice,Across the unchained current of the distant dream,Between the singing strands of taut-stretched barrier-wire,To speak the future freelyIn guarded whispersOnly the prisoner knows these thingsOnly the Heart is a collection of memories, thoughts and feelings both in the past and present, this novel portrays the hardships and struggles that a Vietnamese family endures through the years of approaching communism. Their desperate flea from the only home they have ever known and the loved ones that they may never see again, all in search of a place where freedom and hope are as abundant as the air that you breathe. The life that teens our age go through for freedom, opinions, safety, choices, a future and a new beginning. These are the things we take for granted.

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