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 * //Year of Impossible Goodbyes// By: Soon Nyui Choi

|| =Word Wall: Opression Korean War 38th Parallel Communism Japan Punishment Seoul Mother Russia P`yongyang=

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[|More Korean Culture] || Bibliography: [] "(The Korean War)-The US and Soviet Union in Korea".2001 by Frank E. Smitha.18 May 2010

[] "(Independent Reading)The Guide to YOIG".Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.18 May 2010

[] "(mnsu.edu)Korean Culture".by Ryan Utterback.18 May 2010

[] "(chollian.net) Culture of Korea".18 May 2010 || First of all, Ponyboy is going through somewhat of a street war between the greasers and socs. Sookan is going through the Korean war. More similaraties are that there is a chance of both them dying ,and they have both seen their loved ones die. Also, Ponyboy lives in family of three with his two brothers in a broken down house ever since their parents died. Sookan also lives in poverty with a family of four now three since her grandfather died. || Evaluation: I liked //Year of Impossible// //Goodbyes// because it gives a view of almost anyone in the Korean war. The book descibes and shows the opression and challenges that the North Koreans went through with the Japanese. The girl Sookan in this book is going through WWll with her family that lives in poverty under the control of the Japanese, who makes Sookan`s mother make socks for the Japanese soldiers. When the war ended, I was thirlled and Sookan and her family could finally do all the things they used to do. This book is really a fictional book ,but it still desrcibes some of the troubles Koreans went through during the war. After the war was over and the Japanese left, I was relieved ,but the Russians came, I was a little shocked. While the Russians were here, at first the Koreans didn`t mind ,but after a week of doing the same thing over and over again the Koreans were getting annoyed and Sookan`s family had enough. They now try to cross the border/38th Parallel to South Korea. Did they get there, find out. ||
 * Friends: The two fictional characters I am going to compare are Sookan and Ponyboy.