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Linda Sue Park's significance to the literary world is important because she is sharing knowledge about her Korean culture.
She influences her readers to tell others to follow your dreams not your culture.  She shows this in her books,  A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko, SeeSaw Girl, The Kite FIghters.

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The overall style of Linda Sue Parks writing is very detailed description. She uses this style while identifying her characters, themes, plot structures , symbolism, points of view, and book chapters and titles.  In A Single Shard  Park writes "The Sounds and Sights around him were wavering, as if seen and heard through water." That shows how Linda Sue Park uses description and to announce all of the identifications. In When my Name was Keoko, in detail, park explains, ¨The swelling on his face has gone down but the bruises look awful. Dark blue, purple,red, and the biggest one on his cheek bone is greenish yellow around the edges¨, and in Seesaw Girl, it says "She saw them in the dusk, purple-blue this time against the bluer sky." In both of these amazingly written quotes, they explain A LOT of detail with the color explanation added to them. Lastly, in Kite Fighters, it is said that "The immense gates opened wide, and the crowd of onlookers that always seemed to hover around the palace watched in surprise and envy as the three lees were permitted entry¨. The detail in this quotes presents detail in wording and explanation.

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In A Single Shard Park uses a technique of symbolism For example on page 143 It says "It was the little ceramic monkey" That monkey is a symbol of Crane-Man who is Tree-Ear's closest thing to a Dad that he has.

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All of her books that we read have a common theme of "you should always follow your dreams no matter how hard they are".For example in A Single Shard  it can be found on page 129 it says "He stood up and squared his shoulders, still clutching the piece of pottery."that implies that he decided to keep going on his quest, in The Kite Fighters you can find on page  The character names all reveal something about them for example in A Single Shard, on page 7 "Tree-ear was so called after the mushroom that grew in wrinkled half-circles on dead or fallen tree trunks, emerging from the rotten wood without benefit of parent seed." That fits Tree ear because he is an orphan who has become a successful young man.  In the Kite Fighters, Young-sup followed his dreams not his culture, so here is a quote I found," ......... when you next see the King, ask him if he would be so good as to grant my wish for Young-sup to fly the kite at the festival" ( Park 2000) (pg. 71)

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This book takes in the Korean Mountains. The main characters are Jade Blossom which is the younger sister of Tiger. And Willow is the aunt of Jade Blossom. The symbols in this book is the mountains represent Jade trying to get her freedom and find Willow. Finally, the theme of this book is to follow your dreams and and never give up even if your let down.

Ratings:  3/4

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This book takes place in Ancient Korea in the 1473.  The main characters are Young-sup (younger brother), Kee-sup (older brother, and is the Key for Young-sup), and lastly the King. The symbols in this is the kite represents freedom. Lastly, the theme in this book is to follow your dreams, not your traditions, no matter what happens to you.

Ratings: 4/4

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LInda Sue Park

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When my name was Keoko takes place in Korea in the 1940's. The Japanese have taken over Korea. The main characters are, Sun-Hee/Keoko, Tae-Yul/ Kaneyama, and Uncle. The symbolism in this book is the Sharron tree, this tree represents hope and courage. It is also told in first person. Last, the theme is to keep hope even when times gets very hard.

Ratings: 4/4

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http://www.lspark.com/books/awards.html

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Linda Sue Park's culture is Korean, but she lived in Urbana, Illinois throughout her life. Some of her hobbies are writing, reading,cooking,traveling,and last but not least doing cross-word puzzles. Some of the jobs she used to have before being a writer is Public-relations, worked in a major oil company, teacher, and food journalist.

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What Inspired/Motivated Linda sue park to write.

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What Inspired/Motivated Linda sue park to write.

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One reason linda Sue Park writes her books is to gain the rights of people who are treated worse, For example in SeaSaw Girl she writes "the house was built like a U around the inner court." this shows that the women were trapped inside there house surrounded by a wall.  Another reason Linda Sue Park writes is to show freedom and to gain the right for people.

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Linda Sue Park is the author of SeeSaw Girl, A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko, Kite Fighters, A Long Walk To Water, Project Mulberry, Storm Warning, and 14 others.
She has earned a total of 110 awards including the John newbery medal, ALA best book for young adults, Booklist Editor's choice, and Bank street best Children's books of the year.

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Korea involves a lot of history and culture. The books that Linda sue park has written completely show off the history in culture in Korea. The books that have been seen to describe Korea is : A Single Shard, Seesaw Girl, When My Name Was Keoko ,  and The Kite fighters.  In A Single shard, Korean History/Culture is represented by the fact that boys get to go outside of the house, and girls are restricted to star inside. In Seesaw Girl,culture in represented by the mountains showing  obstacles that the cultures in Korea faced. In  The Kite Fighters, Culture represented in the book is the fighting of the Kites explaining freedom of anything. Last but not least, in the book When my Name was Keoko, History is shown when the Japanese took over Korea due to the complication of politics..

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A Single Shard  takes place in a small village in the mid 1200's, the village is in Korea. The characters in this book are Crane-Man, Min and an orphan named Tree-Ear. The symbolism in this book is pottery which represents beauty and Korea. The Theme is you should always finish what your started.

Ratings: 3/4

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Linda Sue Park who was an author was born on 3/25/1960 in Urbana Illinois. Her Dad Eung Won and her Mother Joung Sook helped her creative mind write many books and poems. Her jobs include public Relations writer, a writer, a teacher, and a food journalist (which sounds like a good job). Her interests include reading, writing, cooking, traveling, watching movies, and doing crossword puzzles.