Summary Of The Prescriptive Of Suki Kim

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I rejoy reading this book because it show the prescriptive of Suki Kim as she teach English to college students in North Korea. It let you have a better understand about what and how the students think and what they were told to believe. How the president's have so much power over his citizen. I can connect to Suki when she first stay in North Korea without any relative around her and how she misses her love in the United States. It reminded me of a time when I first moved to United States and how I miss my relatives and friends that I left behind. Thinking that I’ll never see them again.

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