Sookan Character Analysis

Sookan changes from a little girl that was afraid to do anything that she was not told to do at the beginning of the book to a strong, Brave girls that protects her brother when they are in centrian danger when trying to get to the south. On example of Sookan at the beginning is when grandfather has her and Inchun wash his feet and not for mother to do it. "Will you rub some of that oil on my feet?" " My daughter, did you not hear me ask my grandchildren, not you, to do it this time...... it would not hurt them." (43).This event changed Sookan because she was never able to help grandfather before and him letting her do it was a big responsibly for Sookan. Another example is when Sookan is at Japanese school and the teacher makes the kids clean up their pee puddles because they were not allowed to get to the bathroom during a lesson. "

No one spoke. Those who had wet their pants seemed relieved to clean up the little puddles they had made(75). This event changed Sookan because it showed her how the japanses really treated the Koreans not just the adults but the kids also and how Narita sensei made them feel ashamed that they had to clean up their puddles of pee cause they were not allowed to go to the bathroom.The last example is when the Japanese soldiers took the sock girls and the machines. " sit with us and be quite. Yeh soldiers are taking the machines and loading them to be made into more weapons." " please some of them are not even fifteen". Mother cried as they took the girls. This event changed Sookan by showing her what was going on in the war and why mother and all the Koreans wished that the war would end soon, so that they didn 't have to suffer anymore. By the end of the book Sookan he changed from a small hole that never ever questioned anyone to a bra even strong girl that had been through very hard time and has come out changed for the