Sunday, August 01, 2004
response #5 from Seon Cheol Yoon
Young Ju’ father has gone to Korea and left his family in the U.S. without any helps. Many people may blame him how he could leave his family, and can tell he is so cold-hearted. Young-Ju’s mother plays the role of the father and Young Ju plays the role of mother. She becomes a brave girl because she has to take care of her younger brother. When I read the part that Young Ju made a dinner by herself, and her mother came up to her and said her father had gone to Korea, this part was the deepest misery of the novel. However, I can understand Young Ju’ father because he is the same Korean with me and he is also a man like me. I can conceive what was the matter of Young Ju’s father. He should have overcome his problems, and he also should have kept his family.
At the end of the novel, Young Ju’s family purchased their own house, and we can imagine how happy they feel. If the ending of the novel concluded without her father’s leaving, the novel would give better impression to the readers because I think that the readers might want the happy ending that her father comes back and they make good relationships each other as if they were in Korean. In addition, I expect the second volume of “A step from Heaven” that will be the story of Young Ju herself and her offspring after she get married and her younger brother Joon’s story. I am eager to know the story about the second generation of immigrants’ family, how they keep their own cultural heritages and their Korean language.
At the end of the novel, Young Ju’s family purchased their own house, and we can imagine how happy they feel. If the ending of the novel concluded without her father’s leaving, the novel would give better impression to the readers because I think that the readers might want the happy ending that her father comes back and they make good relationships each other as if they were in Korean. In addition, I expect the second volume of “A step from Heaven” that will be the story of Young Ju herself and her offspring after she get married and her younger brother Joon’s story. I am eager to know the story about the second generation of immigrants’ family, how they keep their own cultural heritages and their Korean language.
