Korean Literature Cranes by Hwang Sun-won

What is the symbolism of the thirty-eighth parallel line?

• It is a flashback.

• It is a division that has disrupted communities.

• It is a cultural segregation.

• It is a foreshadowing of war.

Hwang Sun-won, after WWII and the outbreak of the Korean War, fled to the American-occupied South.

• True

• False

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The old man scolds Song-sam for climbing the chestnut tree.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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Children’s faces are “ridden with fear.”

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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Song-sam tells Tok-chae, “You are sure to be shot anyway.”

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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Song-sam and Tok-chae teased Shorty when they were children

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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Song-sam and Tok-chae caught a crane then set it free.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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Tok-chae’s first child is due in the fall.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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The memory of the freed crane flying over the trees.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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Song-sam had to leave his father when his father refused to leave his farm.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

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