Year Of Impossible Goodbyes Book Report

Throughout the book, Year of Impossible Goodbyes Spokane had a few key moments when she changed while being faced with the following situations. She clapped and cheered when a Korean boy spoke up against the Japanese, she distrusted the guide they had hired to take them across the border, and while escaping across the border she almost sacrificed herself so Inchun could be free. In these key moments of the book Sookan changed, maybe not for the better but it helped create her and keep her alive. After the sock girls were taken away Sookan was forced to go to a Japanese school. When there she had a Japanese name and was not allowed to speak Korean. For most of the day they would listen to propaganda but for another part they would make weapons and walls to fight the "White Devils." After a hard day of this in the relentless heat a boy spoke up. "The principle kept droning on and on about the white devils until suddenly one of the big boys shouted, 'Stop, stop, stop! Don't
After walking for miles and miles and surviving on nothing but steaming corn Sookan and Inchun were ready to cross the border. They trusted a man at the train station. And before long they were running through cornfields to freedom. During their run they overcame many feats but the largest one was at the fence. Inchun was able to crawl under the fence but Sookan was to big. She was prepared to sacrifice herself and let Inchun leave her as long as he could get to freedom. "'Go inchun!' I urged. 'Flatten yourself out like a snake and slide through, then keep running. I will be right behind you.'" (164 Choi) Even though it never came to this the fact that she would sacrifice her life, with freedom so close so that Inchun would live on shows her growth from the beginning to end of the book. Throughout Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sookan changed at key moments in the book so she and her family could survive and she could grow as a