Escape From Camp 14 Research Paper

Shin In Geun was born in a prison camp in North Korea where he spent his entire childhood not knowing life outside. His father was imprisoned because his relatives fled to south korea during the war. Throughout his life in the camp, shin benefited from extreme luck. Though shin had a harsh and violent life he was very fortunate in his 23 years of living. I believe that Shin from the book Escape from Camp 14 is very fortunate. When shin was going up he barely had food Not even enough to keep him full but at the end of the day he had food he was not starving. there are lots of people around the world that don't have food at all and Shen is lucky enough to have a small amount. “Catching and roasting Rats became a passion for him. …show more content…
His mother and brother was trying to escape the camp. But shin knew that there were camp Rules and there will be consequences for their actions. He was tortured and beaten in many horrible ways. He was burned and beaten. Other people in the camp died for no reason and he still lives. My final reason for me believing that shin is fortunate, he got a chance to escape from camp 14. No other prisoner had this opportunity other than his friend Park, who was also his motive to leave the camp. Park was another prisoner from camp 14. The only thing is he has seen the outside of the camp. Park would tell shin stories about outside life tell him about the food. Shine was inspired by it all and planned an escape.
The early-morning of Park and Shin executed their escape for the electric fence around the edges of the camp. They made a run for it and ran to the gate shins friend park was there first he fell and soon died. Shin took that an opportunity to leave. ”Park stop moving you may already have been dead the weight of his body pulled down the bottom strand wire painting in against the snowy ground and creating a small Gap in the fence without hesitation she crawled over his friend's body using it as some kind of insulating pad”(page