?After the fall of Saigon in the summer of 1975, hundreds of tho

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!? (Feuerstein).

Another problem the refugees had to deal with was economic strife, which was alluded to earlier in this paper: ?Many [of the boat people] had lost their direction and wandered on the immense and cruel sea for days without food, water, and gas to continue? (?Vietnamese Boatpeople Connection?). When the Hubris family finally reached the border and the transportation off the moon after crashing onto the surface of Maraud, the ticket price had risen so high they could not afford enough for the entire family. Hope?s father bargained with the ticket salesman, until he could afford the tickets. Helse, Hope?s roommate on the transport bubble, ?had been a pretty child, and in order to gain money on which to survive, [her family] had rented her at the age of six to a middle-aged bachelor landowner as concubine? (110). Her family needed money to live on, because the parents? wages were not enough to support the entire family. They did what they had to do to keep their family alive until the children were old enough to support themselves. Later on during the refugees? journey, the crew of the transport bubble ?decamped with the gold? (100). They had taken the money the refugees had paid for their tickets and the lifeboat, and left. When the refugees realized that the crew had left, they decided they had better start working on making themselves a crew. The refugees wanted to keep going, so they had to know what supplies they had. When Hope was put in charge of counting the food packets, he found out that ?there [were] only half enough food packs? (103). There was no way the refugees could last long enough to reach the United States of Jupiter. Just like the Vietnamese refugees, the Callistan refugees were wandering the ?sea? (the vacuum of space between the celestial bodies was a symbol of the bodies of water on the Earth) without enough food to live on.

Finally, the boat people and most other refugees have never ?been well received at their destination? (Anthony, Bio of an Ogre 210). The Vietnamese boat people would travel to different countries, only to be turned away and forced to try to last a little longer out on the ocean until they could reach another location that would just turn them away again. Just as the real boat people were not welcomed at their destination, so were the refugees in the novel. When Hope and his family, along with the rest of the refugees, finally made it to the United States of Jupiter, the border control just threw them back out into the void of space: ?Here we had finally arrived at the political sanctuary of mighty Jupiter, the planet of all our dreams ? and we were not welcome. What had happened to the great melting pot of the Solar System!? (194). Hope was referring to Jupiter as a symbol of contemporary America. Americ

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Approximate Word count = 1981
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)