I have read a book called ”Ten Thousand Sorrows” and it was written by Elisabeth Kim. I can definitely recommend this book which is a true story about the writer, Elisabeth Kim’s destiny. Elisabeth was born in Korea. She lived in a small village with her mother. She doesn’t know anything about her father, except that he was an American soldier.
Everyone in the village hated Elisabeth and her mother because of what her mother had done. She had given birth to Elisabeth, a child they would never accept. She was a non-person in their eyes. Even though Elisabeth and her mother had no friends and were very poor, they had a good home with allot of love. They lived together until one day when Elisabeth was around five or six years old, she doesn’t know exactly because nobody knows what year she was born. Anyway that day her grandfather and her uncle came to their little house and killed Elisabeth’s mother, in what they called a murder of honor.
Elisabeth was placed in a children’s home where she had a terrible time. Most of the days the children had to spend in their beds which were like cages – they couldn’t move or go anywhere.
After a while she got adopted by an American couple. They were Christian missionaries and had very strict rules. Elisabeth tried very hard to learn a good behavior and please her new parents. But everything she did was wrong. She had to learn to speak English right from the moment she came there. She had to smile all the time, otherwise her mother wouldn’t see her. She could never cry in the house, that was a sin. If she did anything they thought was wrong they hit her. Elisabeth had to become the perfect daughter.
The Term Paper on Mothers Day
When I was first asked to give a talk on mothers, since it would be mother’s day. I started wondering how Mother’s Day came to be. I was surprised to discover that Mother’s Day has a history longer than Christianity! Ancients celebrated Isis (Mother of the Pharaohs), Rhea (Greek Mother of the Gods), and Cybele (The Great Mother). The worship of these ancient goddesses is similar to the reverence ...
The story continues with her miserable life in her new home in America. She lives with her parents and by their rules until she’s about seventeen, when she got married to a man that of course her parents had picked out for her. But her husband wasn’t a good man. I think you should read this book because it’s very interesting. You can never imagine the things she has gone through. The book touches your heart and makes you think. The title of the book is true, she has really had ten thousand sorrows.
