Analysis of Jung-Sum
...major effect on your emotional self, just because he was so young, and he never realized that he was holding onto his dead mother until he grew older. I can relate to Jung-Sum’s character in this part of the novel, because when I was young, and my father left, I didn’t know why. I felt like he abandoned our family because we weren’t good enough, or that he just didn’t want to raise his kids. I never realized until I was older that my mom left him because of his alcohol addiction, something that Jung-Sum father was also addicted too. Jung-Sum was adopted by the Chang family when his parents died,. When he was just four years old, he had to adjust to not having his parents, and living with people he never even knew. He had to learn to love these people, and was forced to accept them as his family. He was left with wondering what happened to his birth parents, and why he never grew up with them. His moving to a new family changed his whole life, which I can identify with because I moved around a lot. Although I never had to live with a new family, I had to adjust to living in different houses, going to different schools, and having lots of different friends. I know what its like to have the feeling of leaving your whole life behind, and it’s a feeling that I rather have not ever experienced. I know Jung-Sum probably felt the same at the time. In the second part of the novel when Jung-Sum fights with Frank Yuen, at the end of the fight he starts babbling in a voice that he had forgotten. He had a flashback of his father whipping him with a...