The Naked Tree

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In addition, The naked Tree included contrast color against the background, the war, that was relation of love. In this story, she directly exchanged love with two males, Okido and Tae-soo, but she had three relationships. As she knew, the relationship with Okido was not unblessed and impossible. “I am not falling in love with him, and never want to be yield feeling of lighthearted between relationship without love” (Park 101). According to this passage, maybe she realized and recognized what she thought the thing she loved was not him. That was just herself that reflected on his drawing, scraggy winter tree. Her twenty’s was hard time because of wounded heart and rough life from the war, so she felt sense of kinship. Thus, she felt into temptation

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