As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting
When Young was barely seven years old, she locked herself out during a storm making herself ill, consequently prompting her mother to conclude she would start thinking ahead for Young. One could argue that she starts to take her
Jackie Aguirre Mrs . Crumley 8 English Hour 7 11 December Title In 1975 Saigon, there was a girl named Ha . She lived where there was a war.
She started helping around the house, but when she figured out that it wasn’t much, she got a job at the fields and even though she had no experience in it she still went ahead and did it. “Mama had been strong for her. Now it was her turn to be strong for Mama. She must show her that she didn’t need to worry anymore.”(p163) Based on this quote, I can tell that she knew she had to be strong and her Mom’s sickness didn’t make her more sad than she already was, it motivated her to be strong for her mom and whatever was coming up.
During the middle of the story she began to have a change of heart. She started to hang out with her aunt more and realized it takes a lot of effort. During this time of self discovery she noticed small details about her friends and family. But by the end of the book she starts to see things from others views to give her insight to how others might see things.
In the book, Year of Impossible Goodbyes, the main character, Sookan, makes a change in her life by becoming braver. The book shows Sookan becoming brave when her grandfather died and she no longer had anyone to lean on, when she was confronted by her brother to be stronger than she was, and when Sookan lead her and Inchun across the river and over to South Korea. Sookan first becomes braver when her grandfather dies of sickness and old age, whereas Sookan first learns of her past.
By the end of the novel, she returns to where she started, at home with her aunt and brother, showing that discovery can help one to gain a greater perspective on what they had in the first
but after she saw you know how things were and she saw that it was up to her to fix it or lose her parents she took matters into her own hands and she didn’t stop doing things until she was able to bring them back she even got a job to save her parents. Going on to the next character is yumbaba and
This delineates the theme because she chose to seek help to heal her
Her faith in God also advanced since it is evident in the novel that she has total dependence and faith in God despite all the hardship that she
Here are three examples from the book that have explanations after them and then say what Sookan has gained from these experiences. When the double agent turned them in and they took Sookan and Inchuns mother away. "When I finally turned to look for mother expecting her to be close behind us, I saw that she was still standing at the guardhouse." ( 133 Choi). She was not strong being separated from her mother and could not make better decisions than she could if her mother was there.
She soon starts to question if what everyone told her about her past was one enormous lie and is desperately searching for answers. However, when Tavia discovers that her guardians after
Instead her personality makes the male characters change to accommodate to her, they realize that she is not
In my opinion she was probably most affected by the death of Edmond. That 's when I started thinking that Edmond might still be alive because surely this story would
Although my experiences are not as drastic as hers, she inspires me to make my own decisions. As I grow, I realize more that my independence is important because I cannot rely on other people as much since everyone’s experiences are different. For example, when they were children in Guyana, my parents had to walk miles to school while I am able to take the bus to school. Although my parents and I went to school up until the same age, our experiences lead to different approaches in situations. The transition from middle school to high school was eye opening because in middle school the class would move together, whereas in high school, everyone went their own ways.
