Plot for When My Name Was Keoko

Exposition:
> setting: Korea (in the southern part)
> situation / climate: the time of the Japanese occupation (in 1940s)
> characters: Sun-hee, Tae-yul, Uncle, Abuji, Omoni

Conflict:
protagonist v.s. antagonist = Sun-hee, Tae-yul v.s. the Japanese and the lost of their independence.

Rising Action:
> 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 war between the U.s. and Japan begins and sun-hee's family have to live in poverty.
> Not wanting to betray his Uncle, Tae-yul decideds to voluteer to join the army. He leaves for Seoul and starts to get hard trainings.

Climax:
> Tae-yul decides to be a kamikaze and goes to Japan to get trainings.
> He finally gets to fly a plane for the first time in his life.

Falling Action:
>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.
> The war ends with the Japanese Emperor surrendering to the U.S.
> 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.

Resolution:
> 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".
> The family members are all happy but learns that Uncle is stuck in the North of Korea because of the Communists.
> Sun-hee and Tae-yul begins to learn the Korean alpahbet their father had promised to teach them when Korea became free.