Year Of Impossible Goodbyes

Sookan changes many ways through the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the following situations when the Japanese lose the war, when the Russians take over North Korea, and when they find out the guide is a spy.

The Japanese have finally lost the war and are moving out of North Korea. There are still some soldiers, but most have moved back to their homes. "We're free! We're free! I've been telling everyone. The flag with the bloodshot sun is being taken down. They are putting up our flag!" (Choi 86) In this quote it is explained how the Japanese have lost the war. Also, how now that the Japanese have left they are free and they can put up their own flag! This was very exciting and important to them because the Japanese have been taking over North Korea for a while and they are finally gone and they are free.

Now that the Japanese have lost the war and left, this is the perfect

Not knowing the guide they hired was an spy. "She couldn't bear to tell us last night that the guide we hired was a double agent." ( Choi 136) The family was wanting to escape to the South and the hired an guide to take them there. They hired a old man. The guide they hired was a agent working for Russia. So he would take any people who hired him to South Korea. But he didn't actually take them to the South. He took them to a house and then would run off and tell the Russian soldiers who is trying to escape. Every time he did this he would get a fee from the Russian soldiers.

Because of these changes Sookan is a different person because of the Japanese losing the war, Russians take over, and what happened with the guide. She has become a much braver and stronger person because she had to stay strong for her family during this frustrating time. Also she had to stay brave, so she could risk her life to find freedom. Once she got to the South she let all that show even more than