6/7/2023 0 Comments Grass keum suk gendry kimThe art work in this graphic novel has a beauty of it’s own, but it isn’t the most visually appealing graphic novel that I have picked up. She’s still actively advocating for the rights of comfort women and looking for reparations from the Japanese government, or even at least the Japanese acknowledging the horrors past the standard apologies that they tend to give for these atrocities.īut Gendry-Kim doesn’t shy away from these atrocities during the time of Ok-Sun’s captivity and she presents them in a blunt way with stark images. Lee Ok-Sun, is now an octogenarian, living out the rest of her days in the House of Sharing. Using broad strokes, painted in black ink, Gendry-Kim shows not only the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea, but also uses the heavy brushwork to emphasize Lee’s somber memories. The story starts in Lee’s childhood, showing the lead-up to the war from a child’s perspective and continues through the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Ok-Sun Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. “I’ve never known happiness from the moment I came out of my mother’s womb.”
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