starts when it is the year, 1940. In "When My Name Was Keoko", the setting is taken place in Korea during the Japanese occupation. The Japanese have been making new laws that has insulted the Korean's identity. Japan treated Koreans with disrespect and Koreans got angrier every time. This story is mainly about two korean children named Sun-hee and Tae-yul. They are the ones telling the story. At this time of history, Korea was one country and not split because it was before the Korean War. I think that Korea
is a very important place for me because my whole family is Korean and I live in Korea right now. I feel like I am really proud of my country and that I cannot be ashamed of it. It is so great that I have Korean blood and that it is a really tiny country but it has grown so much economically. When I read this book, I somehow feel the anger that Uncle has because of the way the Japanese treated Koreans. It is so sad and surprising how we were humiliated and shamed by the Japanese when they had no right. They had been very cruel and they didnt care about how Koreans would feel.Even though not all of the Japanese did this to Koreans, sometimes I just assume that they dont think they did anything wrong to Korea. I bet that I might get mad at a Japanese if they insulted Korea again! Anyway I think this book is very interesting and I think that it is my type of book~ =]
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OHHHH this is also kind of like my story because it is also during the Japanese rule in Korea but my setting is in North Korea. But our book is in the perspective of a Japanese family living in Korea.
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cool~~~~
you are reading the same book as me:)
"When my name was Keoko" <- this book is soooooo fun~~♥
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I also like your pictures-
How do you think you could reconcile the two different perspectives of this period in Korean history as they are related in When My Name was Keoko and in So Far from the Bamboo Grove?
Nice work! Don't forget to add another post about your novel this weekend. Focus on either plot, characterization, or theme.
you make me wanna read this book :)
haha,, anywayy
i agree with you...KOReAN PRIDEE ㅋ
like when i was living in the states, i was kind of embarrassed of how i looked and stuff
and how i was like one of the three asains that were at my school..
i bet that if i read this book,
i will really come to respect the korean culture, and what they went through to become free of japan...
i guess this is why we have so much pride..
we have been stepped on over and over again,, other countries have like fought over us, and were just, there.
but i guess when we won independance, we wanted to keep it
and were very proud of our country?
hehe....anywayyyy loooovee youu :)
I remember reading this story!!
It was kind of fun and sad at the same time...
I sometimes feel bad for the japanese though because korean automatically have a bit of a prejudice against them even though people these days didn't really do anything against koreans.
Okay well sorry for commenting again but my other comment was too short I think. Okay well our setting is sort of alike because both of our books are when the Japanese were ruling over Korea. The difference is that your story’s perspective is a Korean person in the Japanese rule but my story’s perspective is a Japanese person in the Japanese rule. I think that your story would be way different from my story because our storied are in different perspectives. My story might be same in some areas because there is a army of Koreans called the Anti-Japanese Communist Army where they kill Japanese people and the main characters of my book are running away from them.
FLAMINGOOOOOOOOO~ !!
sounds like a goood boook
i want to read it too>< hehe
This book,is really similar to the one im reading... exept the one whose telling the story is DIFFRENT
Through the book, From the Bamboo Grove, i kind of got a chance to be in the shoes of the japanese and i bet through the book your reading, you got to understand the korean's point of view,
well anyways !have fun reading this book<3
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What the Japanese did to Korea was quite more humiliating than other countries that were invaded by another country, such as Europe over India. Japanese tried changing our culture and everything about us. I am also proud that we were able to hold to our own culture and not be a different country. If a Japanese insulted our country again, I'd get really mad after all the land and political ties they have made with us Such as the Dokdo land that they have also retrieved from what I heard, and also the ocean boundary that they have made their side bigger.
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