"The Year of Impossible Good-Bye"
Aug.26. 08
What is Sook Nyul Choi's attitude to the occupation of Korea?
What is her purpose in writing?
What is her purpose in writing?
I think Sook Nyul Choi's attitude is very complicated because she loves both Korea and America. She might feel angry at America, but she cannot. America is her second home country, so she cannot say anything about America. For Japanese occupation, I think she got angry about it because Japanese forced her to move in America and her culture became all Japanese culture as well. Therefore, she was really angry at Japan and she might not forget what Japan did to her and her family.
Her purpose in writing is to show how Japanese people treat and use Korean people and by telling those facts, many other countries people can know what happened to Korea and Japan during that time. In my opinion, she wants modern people to know about the history and wants young people to stop doing like that kind of things. Also, I think she wants to tell the relationship between Japan-Korea, and America(Russia as well)-Korea. If people know how other countries people are doing, everyone can know about the world and their cultures. Therefore, her purpose is to share the feelings, ideas, and about each country and its people's life by using all her experiments.
