Korea

Question 1

What are the key themes of Korea?

Answer 1

• Lies
• deceit
• secrets
• power dynamics
• generational trauma
• Darkness
  -Loss of innocence

Question 2

What imagery does korea have?

Answer 2

• The river
• The lavatory
• The prison

Question 3

What form and structure does Korea have?

Answer 3

• Shift from dad having power to the son
• First person

Question 4

What key language does Korea have?

Answer 4

• Water language

Question 5

Quotes which present the fathers outlook of the world:

Answer 5

“He’d been captured in an ambush”
“ The buttons of the tunic began to fly”
“It destroyed the day”

Question 6

Quotes about the fathers deceit and unclear intentions:

Answer 6

“cold and mist was on the river”
“the river was dead silent”
“Mud was rising a dirty yellow between the stem”

Question 7

Quotes about the father tricking his son:

Answer 7

“his fingers baiting each twisted hook so beautifully”
“without lifting his eyes from the hook and box of worms”
“opening the can of worms”- baiting the son and letting it all out

Question 8

Quotes about repression, lies and sacrifice for own benefit:

Answer 8

“There was something calculating in his face, it made me watchful of him”
“it was new to me to hear him talk about his own life at all”
“he’d draw fingers across his eyes as if to tear a spider web away”
“words fumbled” “i was wary of the big words, they were not in his own voice”

Question 9

Quotes about a better life:

Answer 9

“You wouldn’t think of throwing this country away all together”
“not certain he’d get a renewal of his license”
“we impoverish the course of fishing for tourists”

Analysis: Not only does this family need money but the idea that if he’s own country caters to the needs and wants of outsiders that america might do the same.

Question 10

Quotes about loss of innocence and lack of recourses:

Answer 10

“clay in the darkness of the lavatory”
“worms crawling in too little clay”
“darkness”
“in the darkness of the lavatory”
“i knew my youth had ended”