Susan Mcclelland's Every Falling Star

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In the NonFiction book Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee and Susan McClelland, a true story of a north korean boy named SungJu whose father was disgraced by the army forcing them to move from a nice city to a poor town where you have to fight for food. Losing both parents due to them leaving to find work or food and never coming back. He was forced at just 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. In order to survive, Sungju forms a gang with his close new friends and lives by fighting, thieving, begging, performing, and traveling around getting arrested and overcoming many obstacles just to simply survive the rough streets of their new home, making new friends and enemies along the away. While they slowly discover the truth about …show more content…

And an example of this can be when he used the korean slang word kotjebi this can be seen here “ “go home.. Go anywhere else but here. Kotjebi can't sleep in this market”. (Lee 99)This can confuse the reader to what the word means thus you having to google the word for yourself in order to fully understand. Although there were very few weaknesses. there were many strengths though such as the strong lessons you learn from reading this book such as Lee does an excellent job catching the reader's with details. Describing personal feelings on what extreme hunger feels like or the conditions of a corrupt prison. While still keeping the positive motivational memories alive, like how an example being how no matter what, they were able to go back to the feeling of hope and friendship. An example would be when they were discussing the rules of the gang, the main rules were, “we are family now, as brothers we have to protect,trust,never fight against each other, always stick together, and care for one another” (Lee 140)this shows how they set rules to make sure they will maintain friendship. Which helps prevent the reader from becoming too drawed out on what can be a sadistic story. Lee and the other kotjebi (homeless kids) do whatever they can to survive out in those

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