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Uncle Chue is Bee’s older brother. He’s caught by Pathet Lao soldiers when he attempts to cross the Mekong Delta river into Thailand. Uncle Chue’s ordeal highlights the persecution faced by Hmong communities during the Hmong genocide (shortly after the Vietnam War). Eventually, Uncle Chue and his family escape again, and they follow Bee’s family through various Thai refugee camps and on to the United States.
Uncle Chue Quotes in The Latehomecomer
The The Latehomecomer quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Chue or refer to Uncle Chue . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9
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The adults continued having nightmares. They cried out in their sleep. In the mornings, they sat at the table and talked to us about their bad dreams: the war was around them, the land was falling to pieces, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese soldiers were coming, the sound of guns raced with the beating of their hearts. In their dreams, they met people who were no longer alive but who had loved them back in their old lives. There were stomach ulcers from worrying and heads that throbbed late into the night. My aunts and uncles in California farmed on a small acreage, five or ten, to add to the money they received from welfare. My aunts and uncles in Minnesota, in the summers, did “under the table” work to help make ends meet if they could, like harvesting corn or picking baby cucumbers to make pickles.
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Uncle Chue Quotes in The Latehomecomer
The The Latehomecomer quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Chue or refer to Uncle Chue . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 9
Quotes
The adults continued having nightmares. They cried out in their sleep. In the mornings, they sat at the table and talked to us about their bad dreams: the war was around them, the land was falling to pieces, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese soldiers were coming, the sound of guns raced with the beating of their hearts. In their dreams, they met people who were no longer alive but who had loved them back in their old lives. There were stomach ulcers from worrying and heads that throbbed late into the night. My aunts and uncles in California farmed on a small acreage, five or ten, to add to the money they received from welfare. My aunts and uncles in Minnesota, in the summers, did “under the table” work to help make ends meet if they could, like harvesting corn or picking baby cucumbers to make pickles.
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