So Far from the Bamboo Grove Blog

The book, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, shows how Yoko, her sister, mom, and her brother survive after the Koreans are freed from the Japanese. This book took in the time period of about 5 months. The thought that came to my mind while reading the book was that how hard it would've been to move to a different place permanantly after living at a place for 12 years and not being able to move back. I got to learn how the Korean communist treated the Japanese after their freedom, and also learned how they were similar to the things that the Japanese did. I was glad to read a book about my home country and was happy to know about the events that occured throughtout the book. After reading this book, I would give it a rating of 7 out of 10. The ending was not as good as it should've been, because the author could've added what happened after Yoko and her sister reunited with their brother, and could of also talked about their dad and what happened to him. The author also should have added more info on the Russians instead of talking a little bit about them. The book was also very short and could of had more detail at the end. The good things about this book was that the reader got me thinking whats gonna happen next? Are they going to die? The author also made it hard for me to put the book down and stop reading. This book also made me think deep thoughts like did countries have to kill other innocent citizens even after the war ended? I mean because of this, so many people in the world died. For example, when Japan attacked Korea, so many men got killed, and women got raped, and the Americans dropped the bombs on Japan to make them surrender.