So Far from the Bamboo Grove Questions

Many Koreans in the world today hate the Japanese for what they did to the Korea during World War II and how they bothered them for about fourty years. After the war, although Korea gave revenge to Japan, I think that reading this book, they should of not done it, because it brought many deaths to the people in Korea, but also a majority of the population in Japan. In the book So Far from the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, I learned how the the people of my nationality, bothered the Japanese in order for revenge. This book shows how the Japanese including Yoko's family survived during the time after the war. This also shows that when Japan invaded Korea, this was how they treated Korea. Yoko's family lives in Korea, because before Japan lost the war, they had a lot of power over Korea, and could live an easy life in Korea. Being a Japanese citizen helps them before the war ends, but after the war is lost, the Japanese are tortured like the way that they tortured Korea. Although Yoko's family is Japanese their family and many other familys did not want any more people dieing, and saw everyone else equally and as a person. Whey Yoko's family is inside the train, Korean communist soldiers come in looking for her family. Although they are looking for them, the Korean nurses help them by making them look like they were sick. The irony in this is that since Japan had bothered Korea, it would look like that they would turn them in, but since Yoko's family helped some of the sick people by providing food and giving them comfort, the Korean people did not turn them in. Although Yoko calls here sister as "Honorable Sister," they sometimes say bad things to each other. Ko is probably very bossy because they are in a difficult and a very dangerous situation. She has no time for her little sister to whine for sleep and food, when the food is limited and there is no time to waste by sleeping. On the way to the Seoul train station, Yoko's family face many hardships. There are problems because there is no true male to guard them, and the lack of food, sleep, and danger roaming in the forest gives them a lot of fear and stress.