November 11 It is dawn. Everyone awake. Everyone asleep. Ahead of me the worn down road lies before my sleep deprived eyes like a tarmac ribbon, stretching on for what seems to be forever. The deafening rattle of loose items, bounces off the neglected walls of this fragile tinny bus. The bus is anything but […]

Mi-ran The characters we respond to the most sympathetically are those who experience both suffering and triumph. We respond sympathetically to Mi-ran’s suffering at the beginning of the text. Mi-ran is a 12-year-old girl from Chongjin, and she is the first character the reader meets. Her father was a south Korean captured in the Korean […]