Year of Impossible Goodbyes-Plot

In the book, Year of Impossible Goodbyes, by Sook Nyul Choi, the main character Sookan, her family, and her friends face hardships from Japan and Russia. In this book, there is a rising action, climax, then a resolution that looks like it has fixed all the problems, but later in the book, there is a bigger rising action, climax, and then the final resolution. First of all, the Japanese have invaded Korea. The Japanese take all of North Korea's valuables, freedom, pride, and forbids them to learn any of the Korean history and language. Instead, Japan makes Korea have Japanese names and makes them attend Japanese schools. The first climax is when Sookan's grandfather dies. After he dies, the Japanese soldiers take away the sock girls who make socks for the Japanese army, and destroyed the sock macking factory to make more weapons for the soldiers in the army. Then finally, the good news comes. It was said that they were losing and were going to surrender to the Americans. The war ends and people in Korea now have bags of rice and many other valuables things that they couldn't have during the war. Sookan and her family think that they are safe but another climax happens. Russia starts to come to Korea and Sookan hears that they were going to stay in the North side of Korea. First when Russia comes to North Korea, they act all friendly and supply Korea with happiness and tell them that they will be different from Japan. Korea believes this, but later Russia starts closing all the ways to get into South Korea except a few secret passageways that they don't know of. Then Sookan's uncle comes and tells Sookan's that after they've closed all the roads, they would take over North Korea and use it for their own good. He gives Sookan, her mother, and her brother valuable items and say that someone that he knows will take it to lead them to the other side. During the check of the passports, Sookan and her brother are seperated from her mother. The guide ditches the children and now Sookan and her brother must find their mother by themselves. During this time, they find a person that tells them that the Russian soldiers took away little kids, and their mother might already be on the other side. They trust him and follow his directions on how to get to the south. The start running on the dirt road to a barb wired fence and although they bleed because of a small hole, they try to crawl under the fence. The resolution of this story is that at the end, Sookan and her brother get reunited with his mother, father, and her brothers.