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Issues Shin faces throughout most of the book is hunger, "children in the camps constantly scavenged for food"  after he escapes it's trying to not to get caught and when he arrives in China and later to the US he struggles with fitting into society and the guilt he carries with him for what he's done in the camps.

Corn Porridge, part of Shin's daily serving of food for 23 years.

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During Shin's life in the camp he saw cruelty and death but was not shocked by this.  Shin was born into this and for him that was normal. What Shin was really looking for was food,  Shin now sees himself before as being like an animal. "The only thing I thought was that I had to prey on others for survival" (190)

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"his first memory was an execution" (xii).  The guards were using this execution to instill fear of those in the camp. These guards would soon teach Shin that any person who'd break the camp rules should be shot, rules that Shin still remembers to this day

Google maps picture of camp1

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Heart is very similar to spine all he ever cared about in the beginning of the book is himself and food. Although, he does change and instead cares about freeing those he had left behind in the camps.  "[Shin] had decided he would be a human rights activist and raise international awareness about...the labor camps"

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One way that I relate to Shin is on page 180 where Shin meets a Korean family that's constantly caring and nice towards him and he questions it. I too have been in a situation where someone has always been nice to me and questioned it. -Jilian Hidalgo
I relate To Shin in the sense that when he believed that people should be shot for breaking the rules, he didn't know that there was any other way to treat people or that the rules were cruel.  Often when my perspective is limited it prevents me from seeing the whole pictured through this story it allowed me to see how little someone with a limited perspective could actually see.-Darin McGrane

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What Shin offers us in the world is that he gives insight into what it's like to be born and raised in a North Korean Prison Camp but also he provides a voice for the thousands of people still trapped in the  camps.

"One Man, if he refuses to be silenced, could help free the tens of thousands who remain in North Korea's camps"-Shin Dong-Hyuk

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Hunger, meat, trash, difficult, fear, and pain were just a few words that Shin said constantly.  Shin was optimistic and saw light even when there was none.  he treated others with respect and loved to listen to what they were saying.

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Shin's goals in the book first starts off as just wanting food due to always being malnourished and overworked then to trying to escape so as to have a better life. After escaping and settling himself in society it's to bring attention to those still suffering in the camp like he had suffered. In the book it states "He desperately wants the world to understand what North Korea has tried so diligently to hide" (13)