Thursday, March 27, 2008
Fifth Post - When My Name Was Keoko
The theme of the story is patriotism, or nationalism(?). It's like even though Japanese took away their name, language, and national tree, they are still Korean and they are not giving up. When the Japanese took away their names, they didn't accept it, and kept their names in their heart. Although they were not allowed to speak Korean, they spoke it inside their house. Also uncle fought for independence and didn't just give up, this shows that although the Japanese might have took away Koreans physical body and the land, they cannot take away their personality and cannot change the fact that they are Korean. This book shows that a person could be changed outside, but cannot be changed spiritually by just forcing them.
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I agree with your blog. I too think that the the whole thing is about not loosing own countrie's culture and language even though they are forced to. The main characters didn't give up maintaining their culture through out the whole book. And later, they were free to speak Korean. I really enjoyed reading this book and could learn a very important lesson that even though you can't speak your own language outside, the spirit and culture still reminds in you. :)
i agree with you that japanese couldn't take our heartss they only took our outside/
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