Sookan Claps

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Sookan talks about how terrible the war is, and how she is so helpless in this event. We are as helpless as flies and it is getting worse as the war goes on. (9) As you can see sookan is describing how helpless she feels and how she can't do anything to fight back. In this event a boy revolts against the Japanese staff, sookan claps and gets smacked by a metal ruler. "We'll help the Americans destroy you all! You killers!" All the students gasped. But I clapped my hands in delight. I couldn't help myself. (80) The fact that sookan claps infront of the Japanese truly show that sookan is changing as at the beginning of the book she never would have done this. What happens in this final event Sookan and little Inchun rush to the south and sookan

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