They Won’t Crack It Open (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Yong-Ik Kim
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: Sarasota, Florida
- Principal Characters: Cho, Dick, Ma
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Teaching or teachers, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Blindness or blind persons, Asia or Asians, Asian Americans, Korea or Koreans
- Locales: Sarasota, FL
The Story
A schoolteacher from a village close to Pusan, South Korea, Cho comes to the United States to further his education. Before reporting to campus, he decides to visit his American friend, Dick—a soldier who was stationed in South Korea during the Korean War. Dick often visited the blind children's school where Cho was teaching and entertained students with stories about the United States. He told students that he came from a town where they had “the greatest show on earth” and once took a circus issue of Life magazine to show children its colorful pages....
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