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How does this statement apply to Jin and her fellow picture brides?

The biography Passage of a Picture Bride describes its real-life subject as having a positive outlook and broad-mindedness, unusual traits among Korean women of that time.

How have Americans attitudes toward immigrants changedor not changedsince the 1900s?.

Massie and the others convicted in Joe Kahahawais death?

How does the author weave real people and events into the lives of his fictional characters, and how do they contribute to your understanding of Jins circumstances? If you were already familiar with any of the historical figures, how do you view them after reading the novel? For example, the author is uncertain of May Thompsons fate in real lifewhat do you think she might have done after leaving Honolulu? What do you think about the Governors decision to commute the sentences of Lt.

Compare and contrast the lives of a Korean kisaeng and an Iwilei prostitute.

In what other ways were the Korean and Hawaiian societies of the time both similar and different?

Korea and Hawai'i were both small countries, in strategic locations, that came to be dominated by more powerful nations.

How would you interpret the poem by Hwang Chini on page 26 within the context of the story?.

How do you feel about Jins decision to leave Korea? What do you think that you might have done in her place? How do you regard the various decisions she made after learning the truth about her fiancé in Hawai'i.