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Coming from a Korean family, the Japanese invasion in Korea made me very depressed whenever I heard about it. Nobody in my family who fought in the war is alive now, as a result I didn’t knew how it really was. Of course, my Korean teachers told me many major facts; however they never told how Koreans were treated unequally. When I received When My Name Was Keoko, I was really excited, because now I’ll know how it felt to be living during the war. When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park is about a Korean family during the Japanese invasion at Korea. Sun-hee and Tae-won are the two main sibling characters throughout the book. Even though they are from a same family, they have different types of character traits. Sun-hee’s character traits are intelligent and curious. In chapter five, it says, “I loved calligraphy the very first time I tried it. It seemed that an unknown creature came to life in the brush as soon as I picked it up- a creature light as a dragonfly, smooth as snake, quick as a rabbit.” It told me that she loves to learn and has a great amount of knowledge, because learning Kanji is very tough to learn. Also, it told me that she loved to learn about new languages even though she didn’t like the Japanese were treating her. Her curiousness was shown frequently throughout the book. For example, she was eavesdropping one of her uncle’s and abuji’s conversation, and she would always ask Tae-yul questions about what’s happening to Korea and her family. Many of these similar examples told me that she wants to know every single event that is happening and wants to fit in. Tae-won’s character traits are caring and brave. He shows his caring throughout the book. Tae-yul seems to be rude to her sister however; he is doing these things in order to protect her sister from being worried. Of course, he sometimes has to answer these questions to get her stop being annoying. In chapter twenty, he volunteers fighting in the Japanese war to protect and help