Week 5 : Assignment - Review of a book

Tear glittrs when it gets light
- Su-yeon Eun

Hyewon Choi

 

 

 

   There would be nobody who wants to suffer hardship. Rather, almost everyone want to live happily without anxiety. So with Ms. Eun’s (a writer of this book) case. The writer of this book also wanted to live happily. This book, Tear glittrs when it gets light, however, is well-known to people as success stories of women who was sexually assaulted by her father. What ‘success’ means in this book does not mean getting rich but overcoming tragedies in one’s life. This was not a book before, but a company collected data and combined in one book. She wrote this to ask someone for help during she stayed in refuge.

 

   Her father was a paster. He was very hospitable to everyone, but not to her. For 9 years, Ms. Eun was raped by him. Her mother and her liittle brother just ignored her even though they knew how she was suffered. Living with family was murder. She attempted suicide several times. She also tried to ask people for help but they didn’t help her rather they ignored her. Someone tried to tell her some advice but this didn’t add up to any help for her. Finally, the paster, her father was under detention for 7 years. The writer of this book is also trying to live happily now!

 

   This book deeply inspired me and made me feel guilty. I thought we have to concern for somebody who is suffered by something and help them. We are just so indifference that someone get hurts in bad situation. I recommend you to read this book and think about this event.