First Person Plural: Deann's Adoption

This essay relates First Person Plural and Twinsters to examine the lives of adopted Koreans during different time periods, seeking their similarities and comparing their differences.
Deann in First Person Plural was born in the 1950s, when South Korea was suffering from the trauma of the Korean War. Adopted by an American family in California, she grew up among the white people. As the only Asian in her family members, she faced a great number of challenges in her youth. Despite most people treated her nicely, she somewhat felt estranged at the bottom of her mind. Needless to say, the most obvious difference between her and others was the appearance. Struggling with self-identity, Deann even took a plastic surgery in order to have double …show more content…
Deann was assigned two identities by the organization while the twinsters - they didn’t even know they were twinsters. Sam lives in the North America while Anais lives in the Europe; both of their adoptive parents were unknown of the existence of the other girl. People may say that during the post-war period, the adoption agencies were in a mess, yet thirty years later, this kind of mistakes still happened. I personally tend to believe that at this time the documents of most adoptees are responsibly taken care of, but there are still a lot to improve concerning the procedures of adoption. It’s inspiring to see that Korea has established International Korean Adoptee Association, which provides Korean adoptees from all over the world to unite and share their ideas. The twinsters’ trip to the meeting was a meaningful for them to retrieve their relation with their birth country and it sent them relief them to meet people sharing similar experiences. From this point of view, the twinsters are more fortunate than Deann, because the system has been gradually improved during the