‘ Vengeance is mine.’ ‘Lord,’ she prays, ‘free us from them and free us from this nightmare.’” The father eventually returns, beaten and trembling they continue their journey mentally and emotionally distraught.Īs the story develops, it turns its focus toward the narrator and what he encounters in school and in his village. The mother waits for him, standing outside in the cold winter weather “She feels neither despair nor sorrow, but outrage of a wounded soul. The narrator’s father is taken away and severely beaten because of his participation in previous Korean liberation attempts and spreading of anti-Japanese ideas. Once in a while, the train stops at a station and the Japanese “Thought Police” are taking men away and killing them. In the beginning, the parents are moved to Manchuria in a train filled with sick, starving Koreans. I, not knowing much about the Japanese occupation of Korea and what had happened, immediately assumed that Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood referred to the mass killing and abuse the Koreans had suffered under the Japanese.
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