> Tae-yul comes back home alive, explaining how his mission was cancled by the weather and that the Japanese put him and the other bombers in jail with the 'crime' of 'not finishing his mission for the Emperor'. > Korea finally becomes free, but Sun-hee and her family are disappointed and sad that Tae-yul could have survived if he only waited two more months.

> The war ends with the Japanese Emperor surrendering to the U.S. >Sun-hee and her family were all depressed that Tae-yul had become a kamikaze and that he had flown his mission as a suicide bomber. > He finally gets to fly a plane for the first time in his life. > Tae-yul decides to be a kamikaze and goes to Japan to get trainings. He leaves for Seoul and starts to get hard trainings. > Not wanting to betray his Uncle, Tae-yul decideds to voluteer to join the army. and Japan begins and sun-hee's family have to live in poverty.

> Sun-hee, along with the readers, finds out that Uncle is part of the resistance movement and that he scretly made newpapers that enraged the Japanese, but gave the Koreans messages telling Koreans about getting their independence back. the Japanese and the lost of their independence. > characters: Sun-hee, Tae-yul, Uncle, Abuji, Omoni Brown, author of While I Was Away, delivers an uplifting coming-of-age story about a Japanese American girl’s fight to make space for herself in a world that claims to celebrate everyone’s differences but doesn’t always follow through.> situation / climate: the time of the Japanese occupation (in 1940s) Is this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of success they’ll let her have-one that they can tear down or use race to belittle?ĭisheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she’s made of. until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it’s an Asian play with Asian characters. So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she’s thrilled. And at the start of seventh grade, she’s channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.Īs the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big.

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