Blog: Sookan's Future

Rujian, Zhou

11/5/2015

English II

Mrs. Guarino

The Repay Of Hard Works

Like an old word said “You get what you’ve done.” I believe that a person will get what he or she want after the person spent a lot time and put a lot efforts in doing it. For example, like Sookan in the book, I think she will become more and more comfortable about living in America in the rest of the novel.

First of all, Sookan is a girl who is always hard-working and friendly to her friends as all the reader know. The only barrier of her is English, which is a new language to her, and Sookan must takes more time to practice it. Even though Sookan is not as outgoing as Ellen, but she still has friends such as Marci and Ellen. So when she stays more time in America, when her English become better and better, she will be able to fit in the community better. And at that time there will not be any barriers to Sookan, she will success in her college. She is hard-working, she reads a lot of books, does homework and she takes notes. There must be nothing to stop her from becoming top students in the college.

At the meanwhile, her friendship with Ellen and Marci will stay stronger and stronger. Because Sookan does not have any bad behaviors. She is not mean to anybody in the campus, and it is impossible to think about she will do something bad to any of her friends. Instead, by the improvement of her English, she can talk more things to Ellen and Marci. She can expressive what she thoughts to them and let them understand her better. Sookan, Ellen and Marci will become closer to closer to each other.

Moreover, it is always hard for Sookan to stay away from home. As we read, Sookan always misses her country and her family. She cries after she read the letters from her mother and sister. She wants to be home everyday, so I think she will return to Korea one day. But she won’t stay in Korea and never come back, because it is better for her to keep studying in America. Whatever the opportunity or the safety, America is better than Korean at that period. Maybe Sookan will go home to see her mother, sisters and brothers. But she will also miss her friends and the life in America. It will also be hard to Sookan to come back to Korea because she used to live the freedom life in America. It will be strict to her to adapt all the old traditions in Korea.

On the other hand, I don’t think her family will not be angry with her. Sookan goes to study in America alone, and she never gives up her hard works at any moments. For example, she passed out because of she tried so hard to finish the homework, the scholarship works and all the other works for her. There will not be a reason that let Sookan’s family angry with her. Even though Sookan’s grades were not good as the first, her family members especially her mother will understand her difficulties in studying. As her mother wrote in the letter to Sookan, her mother shows her worries to Sookan. Her mother also understand the difficulties Sookan faces in America like English and making friends. But those difficulties will not last very long. As I said before, Sookan’s condition will be better and better after she stays in America longer.

As we speak to family, there is another family that important to Sookan, which is the Bennetts family. In my opinion, the Bennetts are like the Sookan’s family in America. They cares about Sookan, and they joined Sookan’s Christmas party in the dorm. Sookan likes Bennets family, but she loves her own family more. Her mother work so hard to send her to America, and her sister wrote many letters to her to guide her. The people who cares you the most always come from your own family. Sookan’s family support her a lot, and made her what she is now. So I think Sookan likes her own family more than the Bennetts family.

In conclusion, I have many similarities with Sookan since both of us are international students from other country to America, I understand Sookan better. After I read more and more chapters, I know that Sookan is a wonderful girls that never let her people down. As her work harder and harder, she will get more replies in the future. It is never a bad choice that work hard when you are in a difficult time.