This is an autobiography written for later elementary/junior high readers from the perspective of a child during and after World War Two. Sook Nyul Choi writes about her experiences as a Korean living in her country under Japanese occupation. It was interesting reading this story after reading So Far from the Bamboo Grove, which is written by a young Japanese girl. Both girls experienced unimaginable horrors and hardships yet were on opposite sides of a battle. Reading these two books together in a unit would help show that in war no side is completely innocent and everyone suffers.
It was interesting how my perspective shifted throughout the book... when I first started reading I was critical of how the author described the Japanese as harsh and was still more on the side of the Japanese. This changed the further I got into the story... both the Koreans and the Japanese were guilty of horrible atrocities and it seems the real war was between the victims who happened to be living in the wrong place and the governments and generals who were giving the orders.
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