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While video chatting she meets a nice South Korean guy who flies to China to simply help her with some money. Regardless of politics, Park’s story also helped me to see America through the eyes of refugees from other countries. So I set a challenge for all my friends out there; “find what moves you, and never give in to scrutiny or judgement. She finally gives in to rape when a big Chinese "gangster" offers to help her entire family if she sleeps with him. Desperation turns to flight, as Yeonmi and her mother are smuggled into China, and to perhaps an even worse fate than starvation as they soon become embroiled in the trafficking and raping of North Korean women to impoverished Chinese farmers.
Throughout her story, Yeonmi is honest and open about her experiences to the point where it almost feels cathartic.I was taught to simply follow what the government told me to do or say or think… In North Korea, it’s not enough for the government to control where you go, what you learn, where you work, and what you say.
Beyond her support of oppressive ideologies, her logic is awful – like in the tweet about transphobia, of course you can care about humans rights abuses like murder and starvation and also care about trans rights? I have a friend who experienced one harsh thing that happened to Yeonmi she was raped and trust me, asking her to remember that detail over and over again is like putting a knife in her heart and brain repeatedly. To comment on an obvious political correlation, we peek into what life is like when the government controls the lives, history, religion, and discourses of their people. We can see inklings of this in America with the attempts to control language, silence dissenting viewpoints (especially in universities), demonizing certain people groups and blaming the world’s troubles on them, and discourage questioning of beliefs of certain people groups.An underlying theme of political ideology surely finds its way into the discussion, from the Korean War, Soviet-style communism, to the eventual isolated sentimentality that even Mao would not have recognised. The book itself could be mistranslated but really, I challenge you to try remembering every detail of your life since your birth until now, let’s see if you get them right 100%. I kept forgetting this is so recent while reading because it is something you cannot comprehend happening in this day and age! It was bad for me to hate men for such a long time, to think they were the worst thing in the world. However, I’m seriously disappointed with those who lowered their score because of the reason saying her stories are fakes and fabrications.
You can’t read a story like this without feeling admiration and awe that she survived what she did and went on to overcome the scars of her past and resist the North Korean stigma that ostracized her when she reached South Korea. Highly recommend this book, I read it in 3 days…everytime I had spare time I would pick it up and couldn’t put it down. Because I wrote it not only using my own memory, but using my mother’s memory, my sister’s memory, using the memories of the people who escaped with us. Shifting focus on this biography journey away from men with significant power, I wanted to find a piece that would not only educate, but also exemplify some of the struggles of the common person.Yeonmi wrote this book with the purpose that more people will listen to her story and know the reality that resides in North Korea even though this means putting her life in danger as she's now being branded as a public enemy to the whole country where she's born.
She goes on with her story, and than she mentions that her father was able to escape prison by promising an incredible bribe to the prison warden. Park explores the treachery that awaited her in China and a life that paralleled the agony of North Korea when she found herself being trafficked.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.
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