Throughout the Book Year Of Impossible Goodbyes, Sookan starts out as a completely different person from who she ends as. She starts out as a shy girl who is controlled and has to rely on everyone. In the end she is strong enough to take care of her little brother for a few days and provide for him. She changes from the moments when she is picking up branches from her grandfather's beloved tree, while she is angry and wishes that she wasn't born Korean, and while she is tried but still takes care of Inchun.
In the beginning Sookan seems hopeless and helpless and does everything she can to make herself feel better. She has no strength to help herself or make it through the war. If she had to go on the journey that she had to do with Sookan at this point in her life, she would struggle quite a bit. She says after the Imperial Soldiers cut her grandfather's tree down, "I picked up some of the branches and held them close to my heart, hoping they would magically comfort me" (Choi 29). She is looking everywhere she can for comfort and could not comfort herself. At this stage I would never think that she could take care of her brother on her own without money, food, or shelter or a week.
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"I was mad that I was born a Korean"(Choi 80) This surprised me because she seemed so happy to be Korean, wearing her hanbok and being able to speak Korean with her family. But she used the strength that she was gaining was being used for anger. She also was not expressing those feelings although she did not have a chance to since she was constantly being told what to