“We’ve discussed it and decided that, because you are from Pyongyang and attended such a distinguished school before coming here, we would like you to be the student council president.”
“I bowed to show that I agreed. I knew that my elite upbringing destined me to be a leader. Part of my education was to accept my responsibility."
Scene from Chapter 5, pg 32-33
Skaidrė: 2
Young-bum
“Look,” said Chulho, leaning toward me and opening a brown bag. He then motioned for me to take a look inside. All I could see were strips of some kind of reddish meat covered in crystals of gray salt. I shrugged, trying to act cool, as if I knew what was going on. But I sure didn’t.”
Chulho
“It’s squirrel meat. I caught a squirrel in the forests last fall,”
Aduel
"For sure, Chulho was playing with me. No one ate squirrel.”
Scene from Chapter 5, pg 34-35
Skaidrė: 3
“ I crossed the Ha-myeon Bridge and searched the market. I walked up to several women, thinking that from the back they were my mother. But when I tugged on their sleeves and they spun around, they were someone else’s mother.”