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Year Of Impossible Goodbyes Book Report

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Some connections that I have with the book Year of impossible goodbyes is that my mother used to live in Asia for a very long time. I also have a younger sibling, but mine is a girl, that I have to take care of if my parents aren 't around. But the biggest connection I have to this book is that I have a brother, just like Sookan, that I don 't get to see very often because he is married and has two kids. Throughout the book of year of Impossible Goodbyes Sookan is very brave when she goes to school, washes her grandfather’s feet and when she makes it to the south. When the soldiers cut down their beloved pine tree Sookan’s grandfather got sick. She wanted to see him all the time, but was obedient and only went in his …show more content…

After Sookan’s grandfather dies, the soldiers make her go to school. They say that she is now old enough to go to school and their family can 't make any more excuses. Sookan didn 't want to go to school, but was brave, so she attended the next day. When Sookan goes to school her teacher is Captain Narita’s wife so she is very mean to Sookan. “‘They say you must learn to be a loyal and obedient subject and work to bring victory to the war. We have to enroll you in Japanese school.’” (Choi 65)That is a quote from the book when her mother got a letter saying that Sookan had to go to school. Going to school is very important because her family, especially her grandfather, had tried very hard to get Sookan out of going to school. They didn 't believe anything the teacher taught them, because all the teacher thought them was how bad the Americans are and how to make weapons. Grandfather taught Sookan, in private, about their religion and gave her a lesson almost everyday. Sookan changed because she was now learning new stuff and had to take care of herself when she got beat. Since it was the first day she had ever gone to school, she did many things wrong. Each time she did the something wrong her teacher would punish her. At the very end she even got

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