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Year Of Impossible Goodbyes BY:Sook Nyul Choi ||
 * = wordwall : communism wars koreanwars sovietunion japeneese chineese
 * = The book, Year of Impossible Goodbyes, is about a girl named Sookan who just happens to be born in North Korea when its communist. Sookan is born into a time when Japan is fighting with the "white devils" and all of Koreans are treated like animals for the "glory" of the Imperial Japan. The Koreans have very little value to the Japanese, except to serve their needs. The death of her grandfather and the Japanese taking away her three older brothers creates the plan to escape to freedom, away from Communist rule. Two characters, Aunt Tiger and Kisa, both pay a guide to get Sookan's family to freedom while they stay behind and sacrifice themselves. Sookan's family eventually discover that the guide is a Russian commrade who makes the mother stay behind while the children go on alone. Sookan goes through a lot of troble just like the Koreans today, but escapes to South Korea where her father is. Her mother pops up six months later on the other side of Korea and rejoins the family. Kisa and Aunt Tiger are shot with machine guns and hung for their betrayal to mother Russia. This was very sad to me because I wanted to see them get out. Then, Sookan's older brothers show up where they attend school together. Sookan is very happy to not be in Japanese school. Then war strikes out, and Communist invade South Korea but nobody in sookan's familly is hurt. This story, however fictional, tells a true tale to many Koreans. Millions of Americans gave there lives to save people like Sookan stuck in the wrong side of North Korea ! [[image:History-About-Korean-War.jpg width="320" height="327"]] [[image:book.jpg width="412" height="410"]] ||
 * = BOOM! Some unlucky Koreans might get caught in the middle of this! Along with Iraq and formerly Cuba, North Korea has NUCLEAR MISSLES OF DESTRUCTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![[image:Iraq-And-North-Korea-And-The-Development-Of-Nuclear-Weapons.jpg width="401" height="342"]] ||
 * = [[image:North-Korea.jpg]] North korea has currency like the United States. The money in North Korea is called the won. The won in Korea takes 1,000 to equal 1 US dollar. ||
 * = [[image:Juche_Tower.jpg]]North Korea is not all bad. They have nice big cities and their very own skyscrapers. The...........Junche Tower which is...............492 feet or 170m. The torch alone is 20m.! ||
 * = The person I compare Sookan to is Ponyboy. This is because she and he are both scared of forces in their lives. For Sookan, the Japanese and Russians frighten her. As for Ponyboy, the Soc.s deliver his nightmares. They both have dreams of a different world, a world without constant threat and fear, and equality for everybody. l also hate to mention this part, but they both lost people they loved. Sookan loses her mentor, her beloved grandfather. She also loses Kisa and her Aunt Tiger. Ponyboy loses his two best friends, the harden Dalley, and the brave Jonny. This is why I can compair Sookan to Ponyboy because of their fears and their lose. ||
 * = I liked the story a lot .It had a lot of really good parts and really sad parts, but all in all I liked it because it drew you in. When you opened the cover, you fell within the wartorn country side and became part of the written word. It was very hard to put down the book and rejoin this world. ||

Biblography:

1) [] Tells alot on koreans under japanese rule! 2)http://northxkorea.googlepages.com/GROUP1-ColonialPeriod.pptx This powerpoint tells alot about south korea under japanese rule! 3) [] Tells about life in the peoples republic of korea 4) [] Tells what life before japanese in korea was like 5) [] Tells you about the warning clinton gave to north korea saying japanese are threatening to launch a missle! 6) [] Tells what japanese did after the war