Year Of Impossible Goodbyes Japan Analysis

In Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sookan changes to think for herself when she questions the Japanese, wants a change in life, distrusts the Russians, and is unsure of the guide. Sookan wonders why the Japanese are so cruel to the Koreans. “I couldn’t help but wonder if the Japanese truly were a divine race. Had we Koreans done something to deserve this cruelty?” (Choi 32). Sookan is thinking for herself, and questioning what she had been brought up believing. She has been taught that Japan is great and that the emperor is a god. She has been taught that Korea must help Japan, who is their provider. She is wondering why Japan has been chosen to be a divine race, and why Korea has been chosen to be lesser. Sookan is tired of working for the Japanese. “I was tired of working so hard. …show more content…
“I didn’t want him to touch Inchun again… I wanted them to leave.” (Choi 101).Sookan does not think the Russians are cruel, and believes them to look friendly. It confuses Sookan when they say they are here to help the Koreans rebuild, but then they come into her house, steal things, and make mess. She thinks they are acting like the Japanese did - like they are better than the Koreans - when they take their things. Sookan’s family hires a guide to help them cross the border into the South. “Our lives depended on him. We had to obey him unconditionally. Yet I feared we had entrusted our lives to a greedy farmer.” (Choi 127-128). Sookan is worried that the guide will take her family’s money and abandon them, or turn them over. She wants to be able to trust him because her mother seems to, but she does not really think she can trust anyone. She thinks people should not trust the Russians just because they are shown a little bit of kindness. Sookan does not trust the Russians because she wants to go to the South to be with her father and older brothers and the Russians do not allow her to leave the

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