Sookan In Impossibly Goodbyes

Even though she was at her house, she still hurried to get to school for the feeling of satisfaction and safety instead of staying at her house which is filled with fear and discomfort. Barry uses the main character’s actions to convey that the narrator only feels comfort when she is at school and that she always urges to be there. Secondly, in the passage that follows, Lynda Barry writes the narrator’s thoughts to show that just the sighting of someone’s safe haven can relieve panic. “ All I knew was a feeling of panic, like the panic that strikes kids when they realize they are lost. That feeling eased the moment I turned the corner and saw the dark outline of my school at the top of the hill” (Barry 1). The quotes conveys that just when the protagonist sees the outline of her school the feeling of discomfort simply disappears. The narrator’s mind finally went calm, as shown through the thoughts that went through her head. Thirdly, in the next excerpt, the author uses first person narrative to express the thinking of the central figure of narrative. “It’s only thinking about it now, 28 years later, that

In the book called Spilled Milk, it talks about a little girl her name is Brooke. She lives in New York with her dad, mom, bother, and sisters. Brooke has kept a secret. The secret was that she had been sexually abused by her father, from a young child to about the age of sixteen. The act of being sexually abused by her father is terrible. Brooke also, took more abuse in the effort to stop her father from abusing her siblings. All her life she knew something was off about her dad and didn’t understand why until she realized she was being abused. Brooke’s mother read Brooke’s journal about the problems that her and her siblings were having. She made a promise to Brooke to try to help.

She was so scared because she was competing against older woman and men. Betsy’s sister Sarah had a great idea to make a sampler with a quote from the Bible. Whenever Betsy was entering her sampler a mean man laughed at her because she was a young lady and he didn’t think she had a chance. He threw her smaper on a table and said if it’s not hanging up tomorrow then come pick it up. Betsy thought to herself that it wasn’t an old piece of cloth you could just throw around. A couple days went by and The contest votes were finally in. Betsy and her siblings jumped out of bed did their chores and were off to the contest. They got there just on time. They were announcing the awards third place was a woman with a quilt. Second place was a lady with a huge gown that was probably twice the size of her. First place was Betsy! She won a thousand dollars! Her family was so proud of

From the beginning of the whole excerpt, she starts off with a hateful or dissatisfied tone about always being locked away. As it progresses, until paragraph four, her tone and perception changes. For example, in paragraph four, her tone was more understanding and calmer, she is also is speaking about why she kind of appreciates being locked away because it keeps her from the other nightmarish things she sees outside through the small hole she found. This shows the audience that the little girl, in a way, is mature and has experienced a lot. The audience perceives her tone in the beginning, as disdain, dissatisfaction, or a hateful tone to show her unhappiness with her situation, to show that she really wants to travel outside and view the world freely, although, her change in tone shows that she sometimes appreciates being able to only stay in one place because she is hidden or away from the cruel things that happen outside.

She seemed to have been in denial that she has a parent that doesn’t love her and a mother that isn't on earth anymore. She begins to see how her mother didn't actually live a perfect life. She denies the truth about her mother and this quote shows that she really hates herself more for believing she killed her mom and believing she once had a perfect mom. Chapter 13, Page 262 “I looked at the row of seashells on the window ledge, knowing how truly they belonged here even though we were a hundred miles from the ocean.”

There are many things that feel wrong to us but if you have courage, you can stand up against it and maybe change it. When someone thinks that something is unjust or goes against their values, they may want to change it. The only problem is that the most people will just sit and become suppressed by the thing they think is wrong. You have to have courage and stand up against what you think is beyond your acceptance. In the novel Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, we are shown the horrors and oppression of the slaves but along with a story about a young girl and another man who opposes the unjust laws and learns to read.

The Quote states “I didn't want to talk about the danger” (Pg 82). This shows us that the incident had a long-lasting effect on her. She was scared of what happened. In her own words, it was dangerous and she didn't want to bring up the memory of it. This spread fear and hurt her mentality.

The narrator comes into the kitchen to see a huge mess and her mom in the middle of it. As she is walking in a piece of the debris almost hits her in the head. “I ducked as a piece of tile flew at me”. This already raises the tension in the story because the narrator has already almost been injured by a flying piece of tile. From the mothers point of view nothing is wrong and waves it off as it is was nothing which angers the narrator even more. “ I pushed past her to get the broom, but she grabbed me by the elbow. A feeling of nervous ness swelled inside me.” If that is not enough the narrators mother decides its the perfect time to tell her that in the next few days she will be leaving her mother and going to New Mexico for 3 months. “ But what am I supposed to do? That’s three whole months” The daughter is steamed because she is going to have to move again to a new place were she has not friends, but from the mothers point of view she is sending her child away so she can be safe while she going off to work in a unfamiliar place. The mother cannot see the situation from her daughters perspective that is why the passage progresses the way it does. It eventually leads to them fighting and the daughter locking herself in her room. If only the mother could have seen the daughters perspective then maybe she would have taken a different approach leading to a different more positive

2. She is scared of Floyd she get slap in the face because Armstrong speaks French her and she afraid to tell him the truth because she don’t want to endure in any more pain. Ms. Perdue is a school teacher that taught lily previously and she had an encounter with lily at a store and doing this encounter Ms. Perdue encourages lily to enroll back into school, because of the death Ms. Perdue husband and she left depending on her own.

The book mainly follows a girl who has pica, an eating disorder that gives you an appetite for non-food items such as chalk and plastic spoons which happen to be Miranda’s favorite. Like many in her situation she doesn’t believe she has a problem she just likes to eat what she wants instead of the food that literally could save her life. However, those around her saw what was really happening. Her twin brother Eliot stated “She was the thinnest I’d ever seen her. Her hands and head were the heaviest parts of her. Her neck drooped. She hugged herself, her fingers pinning her dress to her ribs. There was an odd smell to her, heavy and thick. It was clear to me that she was slipping again, down a new slide.” (Oyeyemi 2). This is a description that many family members of those suffering with eating or feeding disorders would tell you. It’s a sad truth for many families. Families go through different stages of emotions from confusion, grief and anger, and grief or fear. Many are afraid that they are responsible for the eating disorder just like Luc with Miranda’s Pica “Miranda’s condition became chronic he thought that somehow he was responsible.” (Oyeyemi 14). In the story the family feels helpless as if no matter what they do they can’t help her. A similar case of Pica popped up in Salford, Greater Manchester. Five-year-old Zach Tahir

She was reminded of her mother again when she was a single mother with two children. She had to get her blood tested because she thought it was a test to see if she had her mother's disease. She was terrified to get the results because she did not want to leave her children. She would put her life on the line for her children, by teaching her children fire drills and putting them to sleep on her break. She was a very good mother.

In the memoir “Year of Impossible Goodbyes” Sookan changes from someone clueless and innocent, to professional and strong-hearted. This change is showed in three moments: When Captain Narita takes away the sock girls, when Sookan has to go to school, and when Sookan is sprinting with Inchun when they have finally made it to the South.

realizes that the people of the town are so afraid of the devil, she can use

Knowing that she and her family are able to survive such distressing situations without having to jeopardize their views allows her to have faith in her family's future and gives

Sookan changes in many ways throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with poorly treated by the Japanese, seeing Kisa and finding out about their father and brothers being in the South and safe, and finally they got help from an old man working at the train station.