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Min Jin LeeA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these activities to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.
ACTIVITY: “In Another Life”
One of the themes of this novel is resiliency. Beginning with Hoonie, we see each character struggle with their own survival and decisions, and at the end of Pachinko, Sunja reckons with the journey that brought her to Osaka and gave her both children and grandchildren.
Which event did you choose to change? Why?
What happens as a result? How does this trickle down through the family?
What would be different about the novel if Lee had made the same choice you did?
Does this change the effect or lesson of Pachinko?
Teaching Suggestion: This could also be done as a group activity in which each group has one character whose life they change.