Sookan changes in many ways throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the following situations, Russians are leading the Korean people into a mental trap, the tree grandfather used to meditate was chopped down, and Sookan and Inchun are being interrogated by the ruthless Russians. The Russians are leading everybody into a mental trap! They took over North Korea and have been treating the people very kind. The Koreans were living in a very bad time and now since the Russians are here and there being extraordinarily kind to them, the people think the Russians are upright and very mutual so they decided that it's alright if they stay with them. Almost everybody fell for the trap. Mrs.Kim fell for the trap and was helping