Year Of Impossible Goodbyes Character Analysis

He doesn’t understand why he “should have the freedom to hope” while his “brother and father sleep in bloodied earth”. One can see that for Kek to have such fortune while others have almost nothing is a lot of pressure on Kek to make good use of all the things and opportunities he has. Disappointing others back at home and himself is one of Kek’s nightmares. Kek also struggles with feeling guilty for his Mom’s absence. For instance, Kek states, “In mine I am a coward and that’s the truth”. Kek thinks that since he didn’t stay with his Mom he is the reason for her absence and the reason that she has not been found yet. This really drags Kek down and makes him feel like a weak little cowardly boy. In part three, Kek begins to give up and run away from his problems. He feels mentally and physically exhausted from the confusion & hate of America and the fact that Gold is going to leave him soon. For example, Kek says, “I feel tired of using the words that don’t belong to me, I don’t want to be in a place where candy for a kind girl makes people angry and every year the trees die” All the negative things that happened to him made Kek become closer to giving up all

Despite the many flaws of Year Of Impossible Goodbyes, such as the ending appearing rushed and lacking detail, it shines in the department of character change. The main character, Sookan, goes from a confused, resentful and scared child, to a mature mother figure for her little brother, Inchun, when their mother is taken by the Soviets. I have selected 3 moments in the story that best show Sookan’s transformation, Sookan wishing pine needles would turn to real needles and prick the imperial Japanese soldiers, Sookan sobbing to her mother after her first day of Japanese school , and when, after leaving a Soviet government building, giving Inchun a piece of bread. After her Grandfather’s beloved pine tree was hacked to pieces and taken away by Korean underlings of the Imperial Police, Sookan,holding the few remaining branches of the tree, says the following, ''I wished that all these pine needles would turn into real needles and prick the horrible imperial soldiers.” (Sook, page

Sookan is changing toward being more brave throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when she encounters these situations: Sookan grasps her Grandfathers hand in his dying moments, when Aunt Tiger walks her to the beginning of her academic career, and when she gets very critical of Captain Narita's acrimonious behavior. When Sookan's grandfather is on his deathbed, he requests for Sookan, and her little brother Inchun. When Sookan reaches out comfort her withering grandfather, she feels a moment of peace and absolute calm. She feels as if she can take on the whole world. "As Grandfather enveloped our hands in his, I felt a strange sensation. I felt as though a quiet, but peaceful, little Buddha had slowly crept inside of me."(41) Simply the fact that Sookan can deal with

The funniest scence in the book is when Hugh get onto the stage at Caps memorial and reached his arms out to the heavens to howl, "Cap! You were too young to die!" This was the funniest scene because Cap wasn't dead and Hugh made people start crying and weeping. Then Cap announceced that he wasn't dead and that he was okay! It was like Cap was crashing his own funeral. Eleven-hundred studnets thought Cap was dead. Everyone was in shock at first and then everyone started cheering. Once again, it seemes like Zach and Hughs plan failed once again. The entire melody to "Fade" by Alan Walker fits perfectly with this scene becasue it builds the vibe and then releases it at a perfect time. This is like when everyone thought he was dead, went into

In the memoir “Year of Impossible Goodbyes” Sookan changes from someone clueless and innocent, to professional and strong-hearted. This change is showed in three moments: When Captain Narita takes away the sock girls, when Sookan has to go to school, and when Sookan is sprinting with Inchun when they have finally made it to the South.

The first way Sookan changed Is on her adventure to escape the North and go to the South. “As a nuna I had to make the decisions and do all the talking.” In this quote she was about to ask the Russians where her Mother was. It shows that Sookan has changed in a way that makes her care for others. It is important because throughout the story she is becoming more and more compassionate and it helps create strong relationships like Sookan and Inchun’s.

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.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces Montag as a fireman who enjoys burning books. Bradbury started off with”It was a pleasure to burn” showing what Montag thinks about burning books. Montag liked the way when “books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning”(Bradbury, 2). He like to see thing blackened and changed like a destruction. Montag started to change throughout many challenges that he had to face and he also started to get a different view on fire on his adventure. At the end, Montag no longer thought it was a pleasure to burn as, books and Clarisse and Faber had changed him entirely. Montag realize that books was actually really good and there can be so much things to learn about from

These are three examples in the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes that show Sookan’s bravery. Sookan going to the south and starting over,Sookan taking care of Inchun for a couple of days, and Sookan running to South Korea. Sookan showed her bravery when she was going to escape to the south with her mom and Inchun. "They had come strait from jail (Choi98)" people said about the Russian soldiers so it seems brave to escape from the Russians. When they went to the security part of the journey to the south, Mother was held back and Sookan had to take care of Inchun “It was hard to be a Nuna(Choi 153)”. Even though she finds it hard,she still feeds and takes care of Inchun which shows lots of bravery. The final event really tests her bravery, crossing

¨His thick gold-rimmed glasses magnified his cold probing glance¨ (Choi 6). This demonstrates that she is frightened of him. She talks about him as if he is a monster. Sookan is just an innocent little girl learning about the world. She has not yet been exposed.

Sookan changes in many ways throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the following situations: when she was rebellious to the Japanese school, when she regained hope as the war ended and when she had to act like a leader. These examples demonstrate the rising confidence that Sookan feels throughout the book. While Sookan was at a Japanese school Sookan had to make weapons for the Japanese army. As they were doing this, a fellow student told the teachers and students that he was going to use the weapons against the Japanese army. Sookan started clapping along with the boy even though she knew she would be punished. This is evident when Sookan says: "I clapped my hands in delight. I couldn't help myself" (Choi 81). Sookan's

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

In the memoir years of impossible goodbyes, Sookan change from a person who follows to a person who leads. When grandfather dies and mother's grieving makes her lead Inchun making bundles of tah, another place is when mother's removal from the group and Sookan stays strong and continues the process of escaping the north. Finally, savage and interrogating questions demand Sookan to risk her life to save Inchun. At the beginning of the story,She shows this when grandfather has just died, there for she must work extra hard to get her job done for the sock girls, and to keep up with mother's work, " it been several days since mother had even spoken, her pale lips were pursed and her eyes avoided ours"(48). Mother was avoiding her children and

Sookan changes in many ways throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the following situations.

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