How Does Sookan Change In The Book Year Of Impossible Goodbyes

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Sookan changes many ways throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with following situations: Getting expelled from the school, finding out what happened to traitors, and crossing the river.

When Sookan came to school for the first time she had a hard time and one of the Korean boys discriminated Japanese by saying loudly that the all of the Japanese will get killed and lose "We were all in trouble, and we all knew we would never see that poor, outspoken boy ever again. (Choi 81) and Sookan agreed with him and started clapping, got caught, and and got expelled. From this, Sookan learned to not express her actual feelings in front Japanese as often. The second thing that Sookan changed through was during when Russians were

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