Year Of Impossible Goodbyes Analysis

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Sookan changed throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the Japanese cutting down Granpa's tree, going to Japanese school and escaping from North Korea to South Korea. The Japanese cut grandpa tree Down and that's tree grandpa mediates by "When the tree had been hacked To pieces, the young policeman Left"(choi 29) The Japanese chopped the tree to Make grandpa mad and sookan is more Scared because she didn't want The Japanese to kill them. At Japanese school, Sookan had to change her name to Aoki Shizue. (Choi, 72). Sookan said, "That was not my name. I knew my brothers had Japanese names they had at school." Sookan did not like her name change she felt sad and Japanese are evil. Sookan and Inchon went to a train station