Character: So Far From the Bamboo Grove

The characters in our story are mainly Yoko, Ko, mother
and Hideyo. However Yoko, Ko, and Mother were all together
and traveled together during the war. They went throught
many conflicts and tried to cover themselves from being
Japanese. Hideyo was off alone because he wasn't able to
move with the family. HE was one week behind and it
doesn't really talk a lot about him. I wanted to know more
of what happens to him but it was usually about Yoko/ko/
mother's point of view. Yoko changes when she saw how Ko
acted and that they were having a hard time. She began to
understand somethings that she didn't know and acted a
little bit more compassionate than before. mother was i
mpressed at Ko's act of compassion and wanted Yoko to be
like her too. There was a great change when her mother
died and Yoko, and Ko were sad. This was until chapter 8
and i wonder what happeend to Hideyo

Setting-So far from the Bamboo Grove

The setting of the story is in North Korea, in the
small town of Nanam, in the beginning. A few
chapters later, they had to move down to Seoul
because of the soldiers that were coming. However,
the setting is mostly in the railroad for Yoko, Ko and
her mother because they came off the hospital train
and started walking down. If the setting had been
different, the story would have been different.

Secret

My secret is when I did homework in 7th grade,
sometimes I used to listen to music when my
mom said i shouldn't. I listened to music and did
homework, which I thought it helped me more
on concentrating, while my mom wasn't watching.
When she comes in my room, I quickly took my
earphones out and just acted like i was just doing
homework. Now, i dont do it anymore because it
actually distracts me. I dont think its really a secret
but still, i have no other secrets that i could think of...

Courage

When I was in 1st grade, this happened to me. This was
when I just came back from America and started attending
Korean School for the first time. I knew it would be different
and I wasn't very good at Korean at that time so it was hard
for me to adjust there. After having a hard time with a semester
of Korean school, I was tired at this and then I just went to
my mom and said that I wanted to go to an American school
or an international school. I knew about the international school
because I sometimes heard my mom and dad talking about it.
I was only 2nd grade by then, but I still asked for it because my
parents also knew that I had a hard time in Korean School. After
I came to TCIS, it felt much better and atleast it felt more like
America. Since then, I have been attending TCIS. I had the courage
to move schools and I felt I had more braveness than before.