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by:Sook Nyul Chook page by: Kianna Raenelle♥ ||
 * __//**The Year o****f Impossible Goodbyes**//__ 1.
 * WORD WALL 2.

Mother nuna Aunt Tiger Grandfather Sookan Inchun Russia Japanese barley millet cookies rice 38th parellel soldiers "White Devils" ondol socks ox-tail brushes caligraphy unifoms freedom comrades Haiwon sock-girls silk shinto Buddha meditate Chinese P'yogyang Americans

|| [|Shocking Facts][|Russia&Korea] ||
 * 3.[|The Korean War][|Korea-1945]
 * 4.**BIBLIOGRAPHY**

Chris Kerger. “The Korean War.” The Korean War. COTF. April 28,2005. [] 5/12/10

Kim II Sung.”Korea-1945.” North Korea and the Korea War ~1945-1949 Background|Wide Angle. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/a-state-of-mind/north-korea-and-the-korean-war/1945-1949-background/1347/ 5/12/10

[|www.encyclopedia.com]. “Shocking Facts” Korean War Facts,information,pictures | Encyclopedia.com Korean Wa html. May 13 2010. [] 5/12/10

James I. Matray .“Russia&Korea.” Korea’s Partition: Soviet-American Pursuit of Reunification, 1945- 1948. James I. Matray.   [|www.] [|**mtholyoke.edu/acad**] [|/] [|**intrel**] [|/] [|**korpart**] [|.] [|**htm.5/12/10**]**.** http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/korpart.htm 5/12/10/ || Sookan is a small Korean child that is suffering under Japanese and Russian rule. After it gets to be too much,she and her mother and little brother flee for their only chance to the south against their better judgement.
 * "**FRIENDS"**

PonyBoy Curtis is a smart poor teenager in the late 60's. Life isn't easy, having dead parents,and living in a ghetto area with alot of crime. After almost getting killed one night,and being an associate in a murder he and his friend Jonny take off with some money and a gun.

Both characters are very alike. Though they don't come from the same book,they are both fighting for freedoms and anything to make life better. Then,suddenly,everything changes too quickly just making life more impossible. Both of these characters were head strong and worked through it despite the lack of comfort and their desperate needs;they were only concerned about the people who they love. || 5.14.10. The book starts out with a Korean family in desperate times under the rule of the Japanese in North Korea. They are begging for the war to end,an when it finally does they are waiting for the right time to escape. The road to freedom seems to be longer and longer as they lose Granfather,and are desperatley trying to locate three brothers and their father. Sookan,the main character tries her hardest to be the best big sister and is brave when her mother is seperated from her and her littlle brother Inchun She is very clever and goes trough pain to get to the South. She dares to risk everything to get to the South to find her brothers,father,and hopefully her mother.
 * 6**.//THE YEAR OF IMPOSSIBLE GOODBYES// SUMMARY**

When she does pass the 38th parallel,and it was a close one,she is taken in by the Red Cross. She and her brother safely get to Seoul,Korea to her fathers house where her brothers are too. After six months of worrying about their mother,she shows up tired and battered. She had a long terrible transition too,and it isn't long before the Russians take over Seoul in a war that broke out. She learns her cousin Kisa and her Aunt Tiger whom she had to leave behind to escape, were shot down with machine guns and hung as "traitors" of Mother Russia,and were examples of what will happen if you would like to escape.

Personally,I thought it was an alright book. At parts it was sick,cruel,and a bit against humanity. There was lot of pain,and loss. The book makes you want to reach out and help every Korean there,and connects personally with the reader. So in a way,it wasn't that good of an ending. It was inbetween a good and bad book,based on the events. I do reccomend the book if you are looking for a good suspence. It keeps you digging your nails into your skin until the very end. ||