Year+of+Impossible+Goodbyes

Year of impossible goodbyes BY: Sook Nyul Choi



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What we learned about the culture of north korea at this period of time is that they were a disgrace to the Japanese culture and they were discriminated against because their lifestyle was different from the Japanese; the Koreans’ living conditions were considered “not loyal to the divine emperor”. Most people were Buddhists, then had to worship the Japanese Shinto god, and then were forced to have no religion at all by the Russians. The young were very respectful to the elders. The children were forced to attend Japanese schools and were forced to not speak any Korean whatsoever, or the punishments would be severe. In school, they did not learn normal subjects, but learned to make weapons for the Japanese soldiers against American troops, AKA “white devils”. The people used to wear Korean clothing, but the Japanese forced them to wear gray working uniforms. Everything enjoyable has been stolen from the Koreans, even the small things like clothes, lunchboxes, trees on yards, fences, and clocks. For entertainment they did not use electronics, but used things like spinning tops and drawing pictures.
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//__What connections do you see between Animal farm and your book? Dig deeply here. __//.
 * One of the connection between Animal Farm and and in Year of impossible goodbyes are that in both books some one took over For example when napolien took over from old major. in this book the Japanese were in control of Korea, then Russia took over. Another example is when the russian came and took over and seced conanother example is that the define empror was like Mr. Jones.**


 * //__﻿Favorite Quote's __//**

Clare: "I looked around. I saw one girl wiggling in her chair. pretty soon, a little puddle formed beneath her. i looked around the room and counted four other little puddles." pg. 74 Isaiah: "There was suddenly complete silence in the yard, and a skinny boy in a gray uniform that seemed too big for him marched to the center of the yard and shouted in japanese, "attention!" everyone stiffened Jake: i began to worry that my grandfather had been filled with the spirit f the buddha and had been turned into a statue. Christian: remember, when the white devils