Korean+War+Interview+Project+Ann+Yi+A+Block

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=Interview Q's=

=1.5 Page Essay=

=Analysis Q's= - My grandmother’s account of the Korean War wasn’t exactly the material to be published into a historical novel, such as the experience that Hongyong had. However, her experience of sorrow and anguish as she carried her five-year-old brother through kilometers of the harsh winter wind proved that the innocent civilians were defenseless and vulnerable to the dangers of the war. The civilians weren’t informed with any precise information of the war, but they were the ones who suffered the most through this war, with their lack of food and resources.
 * 1) How does your interviewee's testimony fit in with what you have learned about the experience of civilians?**

- My grandmother’s family had fled Seoul, when the North came down the 38th parallel the second time, with the help of the Chinese. She and her family fled to a wealthy family friend’s house, located in Suwon, a city not too far from Seoul. Yet, the Southern government tried to prevent the civilians from leaving Seoul and announced to everyone to stay at Seoul to protect and guard their capital from being captured.
 * 2) Using your background knowledge try to contextualize their testimony. How do you think major events of the war affected their life at the time?**

- Simply guessing, I would imagine that my grandmother was able to stay out of fatal danger during the war because when she was not on her way to flee from Seoul, she was active in work such as loading the bombs. There, I would hypothesize to be more protection than if she were to be in the wide open, because of the soldiers. Otherwise, I can only say the difference of the people who were sacrificed in the war and civilians who survived and managed to stay out of danger, was also just plain luck.
 * 3) Hypothesize or explain how you interviewee was able to stay out of danger.**

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