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Broken Gourd
The story “Broken Gourd” is narrated by a young girl called
Eunju Namkung, whose parents this is a broken gourd.gourd. Eunju starts to talk about how her father tells a story, but just one story. Eunju starts to explains the circumstances that led to her family in calling her a “broken gourd”. Eunju was described as sweet little kindergarten who was make fun of because she was smaller than others. She begins by telling a story about a fight she gets in with Ian Park a second grader. Her father-daughter relationship was complicated. Eunju wanted her father to treat her like a son although she act as a son rather than a daughter , but he did not. Her father would bring her and her older brother gifts. She would not get what she asked for, but

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