How Did Russia Change Sookan

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In the memoir Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi, Sookan changes from being scared and dependent on other people to brave, strong, and an independent figure. This is represented throughout the book in three moments including in the beginning when the Imperial Soldiers came in on Haiwon's birthday celebration and shut it down, towards the middle when Sookan starts going to school, and at the end when Sookan and Inchun get past the barbed-wire fence.

Steven G. Marks, asserts that Russia significantly influenced the modern world with its innovations on: politics, culture, society, fashion, economics, and arts, particularly between 1880 and 1980 in How Russia Shaped the Modern World. Normally Russia is left out of the world history rhetoric, but doing so is incorrect as its conflicting ideals with Western values has two notable significances: the animosity toward Russia by Western society created a series of reactions that impacted the world, and the hostility of others towards the West meant they were rather welcoming to Russian ideas. He begins with the theory of anarchism developing in Russia, from where it would spread to the world. Next he focuses on critical figures in Russian history

Aunt Tiger and I have to be here to cover for to give you a chance to cross the border." (Choi 122) . The way this changed Sookan was she learned you must keep your loved ones close until it is time to let go, so you must be able to let go of something even if you love very much so. The third and final example is when Sookan and Inchuns mother I'd detained and they must live in poverty while they try to wait for her and find a way to get to South Korea. Sookan and Inchon must live off of corn a young lady gave them, they have nowhere to sleep or rest and must keep moving.

It is about a family who were forced to go to camp, and when they came back their home was completely destroyed from the inside, and it had seemed like someone was living in there. There windows were broken, all their furniture and the things they left behind, none of it was there. This novel shows how hard it is go back to where you live and adjust to the new people who are racist against you. It displays that the war tore a whole family apart from the neighborhood they have living in for so long. One and only reason the family had was, living together and starting a new life with a fresh start and build stronger relationships with each other. Going through camp, it made their relationships stronger because they went through the difficult times together, and they all made it through. Though the book has a happily ever after, the internment camp and the war made a deep scar in their lives, something that can never be erased from their memories even if they tried. The war had some after effects such as racism. So the family had to go through the war, then the camp, and lastly the after effects of the war. This relates to “The Daughter from Danang”, because it was hard to Heidi to adjust to her homeland and birth mother, just as it was hard for the family to adjust living without their father, and moving into the camp, then lastly moving

'We're safe, we're safe.' My trembling legs collapsed under me and I fell to the ground. Inchun tumbled down on top of me. As I was lifted onto a stretcher, my eyes filled with tears. I heard the soothing voice of an older woman saying, 'These poor children... all alone... Look at their feet. Hurry, let's get them inside. Hurry.' " (165) Sookan was now able to realize how lucky she is. She is free. She was finally in the South where she could do what she enjoyed. No more cruel schools, no more soldiers, no more keeping secrets, no more, no more! Sookan once lived controlled but now she lives free without oppression. Although Sookan faced a very hard time in life she was able to encounter meaningful experiences. Those experiences helped her notice that she was very lucky in this horrible time of history. She was never tortured brutally by soldiers, she was able to skip many years of Japanese school because she looked young, and finally she was able to escape from the North to the South. She was very fortunate to have made it with very minor problems compared to others who have

Sookan changes in many ways throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the following situations: Sookan's mother was taken away by the Russian soldiers, She supported Korea and Americans, and Grandfather died. Sookan and Inchun's mother has been taken away by the guards. All they could do was keep walking. They couldn't help their mother as all. "When I finally turned to look for Mother, expecting her to be close behind us, I saw that she was still standing at the guardhouse. A Korean soldier in his red-brimmed hat was looking at her passport. He handed it over to a Russian soldier. I saw them pull Mother out of line. Inchun and I stayed frozen as we watched."(Choi 133) This situation changed Sookan because there was a

Even though more problems will arise in Sookan’s life, she finally understands that there will also be cheerful times. After Sookan, her brother, and mother flee to South Korea, the family is finally reunited. “We finally found the house and stepped through the open front door. Father and our three older brothers, sitting at the dinner table, were shocked to see us…” (Choi 166)

Sookan’s journey began even before she started traveling to the south, it began when sookan's home country got taken over by the Japanese. Sookan and her family were scared that something bad would happen to them, so they obeyed the Japanese orders, and were not courageous enough to stand up to them. “‘Well, your god is silent and sleeping while the Japanese are busy torturing and killing us Koreans.”’ The whole family was scared and

Sookan changes in many ways in the boom but there are 3 that are more important like when, when grandfather dies, when the Russians take over, when her mom gets taken away. When Grandfather dies and everyone is upset and depressed, especially Mother and Sookan needs to learn how to live with her mother not talking to anyone" just stood next to her and leaned against her shivering body as hot, silent tears streamed down my cheeks" (Choi 47) Sookan needs to learn how to cope with Mother acting this way and to not make it worse. The Russians come into Korea and take control of North Korea. Propaganda starts to happen. Then they start to question the children and bribe them for information about what they at home and what their parents say. "With

In this part of the book the family is celebrating haiwons birthday and grandfather gave haiwons a drawing with her name in Chinese. Writing in Chinese is illegal and as soon as haiwon opened her present the imperial police came and took the presents and cut down grandfathers tree. "For the first time, I did not like being a Korean child."(choi 30). This event opened Sookans eyes and made her start to

With Captain Narita's daily inspections, when the war is over and the Japanese leave, and when they are trying to find there mother. At the beginning of the book when Captain Narita and his men came for they're inspection, I was feeling curious that day. "Mother had always told me to go quietly inside whenever Captain Narita and his men came to the house, but this time I just stood there and looked at him" (Choi 6). It shows that Sookan was curious and that she would sometimes take chances, this is important because she dose this throughout the book. In the middle of the book Kisa came back from the nuns with medicine and some news. The was over and the Japanese were leaving, but the Russians started coming into Korea. "we better lock the

Sookan's family is so happy to be able to act Korean again, but soon the Russians come in to take over Korea. They recruit everyone to be a good Communist and work hard to build a workers' paradise. In fact, the people are no better off than they were before, because they still have to work as slave laborers for very little food, while constantly being barraged with propaganda. Sookan's family pretends to love the Communist Party, while they plan their escape to the south. Sookan, Inchun, and Mother run away in the night, paying a guide a lot of money to take them across the border of the thirty-eighth parallel, where Korea is divided. After a harrowing train ride and a day of running and walking, Mother is separated from the children, and they discover that their guide is a double agent, who has betrayed

Throughout the story, Sookan is constantly in danger or in fear of something. In the beginning, it was the Japanese, in the end it was the Russians. Her life was always in danger or on the line, and so was everyone else's. About everyone else’s, she experienced fear and hopelessness when grandfather was dying, especially when the soldiers denied him medicine. “‘No doctors for the old dying Korean man’”(Choi 41) This is important because when grandfather died, her mother became completely empty inside for a while. During this time Sookan had to be the one to step up and take care of Inchun, especially

The present day Russian Federation involves a democratic system, given the presence of elections, an independent judiciary, and the supremacy of law. Yet, in democracy, the crux of it involves an inevitable paradox: law limits state power, but the state must have the power to enforce the law. However, finding the balance of the ability to enforce laws, and therefore maintaining order, while not infringing on civil liberties, requires a mutual understanding, a social contract, between the rulers and the ruled. This requirement has not found its place in the Russian political arena, especially since “creating a rule-of-law-based sate out of dictatorship is not easy” (Bressler 2009). In addition, the Russian psyche views authority as a source of force and violence (Yakovlev 1996), an etymological result of a continuity beginning from imperial Russia. Although the Russian Federation, the Union Soviet Socialist Republics, the Russian Empire, and the Tsardom of Russia differ significantly, a strong state remains prevalent in the core of Russian history and politics. In short, the nature of political rule in Russia involves a never ending tug of war between the seemingly undying authoritative soulless entity known as the state and the equally undying Russian people’s hunger for liberty.