Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly

Dear Friend, . "Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly" is a book of #metoo movement and a heart-wrenching book that will make you demand justice for the comfort women who were brutally tortured by the Japanese soldiers. The juxtaposition of Soonboon's naive actions and thoughts with those of the adults around her is truly heart-breaking. No one, let alone a fifteen-year-old, should have their hopes, dreams, and innocence stolen from them in the way Soonboon's childhood innocence was ripped away from her. No one should have their right to live taken from them the way Imperial Japan and its soldiers did to so many of the Korean people. This book details events that are based on true stories, and they are not easy to read. However, I recommend that everyone read through each and every word, sentence, and page of this book. If reading just the words are hard for people to get through, imagine how hard it was for the girls who had to experience the horrific details in real life. They should not be silenced and with its words, "Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly" allows the voices of comfort women to be spoken and heard by its readers. . Title: Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly Author: Mihee Eun Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co ISBN: 978-1-4809-4114-4 Publishing Date: September 14, 2017 Reader: Teens . "Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly" is introduced to Baker & Taylor as well. So, I would like to recommend to your library to have this book for your people. . Best regards, . Sam

"Flutter, Flutter, Butterly" is a heart-wrenching book that will make you demand justice for the comfort women who were brutally tortured by the Japanese soldiers. The juxtaposition of Soonboon's naive actions and thoughts with those of the adults around her is truly heart-breaking. No one, let alone a fifteen-year-old, should have their hopes, dreams, and innocence stolen from them in the way Soonboon's childhood innocence was ripped away from her. No one should have their right to live taken from them the way Imperial Japan and its soldiers did to so many of the Korean people. This book details events that are based on true stories, and they are not easy to read. However, I recommend that everyone read through each and every word, sentence, and page of this book. If reading just the words are hard for people to get through, imagine how hard it was for the girls who had to experience the horrific details in real life. They should not be silenced and with its words, "Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly" allows the voices of comfort women to be spoken and heard by its readers.

I was born and grown in Korea. This story is not new to me at all since it is our true history. It's not our proud history but "NEVER FORGET HISTORY"! Because the world can learn from this painful sad history!

This book contains an almost poetic way of telling its story concerning Korean comfort women, or sex slaves, who were subjugated by the Japanese during WWII. Listening in to each thought of the story's character, a reader cannot help but feel emotionally invested into the young girl's fate. Some may find the choice of words new and strange as I did, but otherwise it is a good read.

I am Korean, and I have grown listening a lot of stories from my grandma, now 92 years old strong and not tired of living and loving. She told how many of her friends and herself were married off in their young ages in fear of abduction by Japanese police. As a child I was not clear what that meant but it became clear later when I learned about the sexal slavery by the imperial Japanese Army. These are real stories by real people who have been forced into sexual slavery. These tragidies has been ignored so long and undermined as poor women’s personal tragedies, yet the Japanese government still denies the war crimes as if they can hide the truth by distorting the history. What I least can do is Listening the voice of the victims and support their opportunity to make them heard in the global community. To know history is to prevent future tragedy. Let their stories be heard.

This story didn't make me pleasant throughout reading the book. I had some knowledge about the wartime atrocities committed by Japanese military, including its mobilization of Korean women as sex slaves. I've learned Koreans suffered from Japan's brutalities, and independence activists were jailed, tortured, or killed. I, however, never imagined they were this brutal. Where is the end of evil of the human nature? Darkness never beats the light. The event of light over darkness represents good over evil. You should know that Japan has never been sincerely repentant of its wartime britalities even now. If you are eager to know what happened during the twentieth century by humans, you must read the story, "flutter, flutter, butterfly".

I was born and raised in Korea but have never harbored any ill feelings against the Japanese. Maybe that's because of my upbringing. My father was educated in Japan since his childhood. He went back to Tokyo in the late 1940s for graduate studies. He spoke Japanese like a native speaker, as with my mother who spent more than five years in Japan with father after marriage. Naturally, I had little reason to hate Japan except for numerous stories of atrocities I was taught in school. Fast forward to 2008, five years before father passed away, he came to visit Tunisia where I lived as part of a visiting professor program. We traveled to Spain, Portugal as well as Tunisia and this was the first time in my life to talk to father heart to heart. I still remember what he said when I asked what it was like living under the Japanese rule more than 60 years ago. I had somehow thought he would say something positive. But he answered, "On the outside, they are nice and polite. But they think all fellow non-Japanese Asians as sub-human." It was surprising to hear such comments coming from father. He added, "They are hypocrites. They play victim when it comes to atomic bomb attacks and kidnapping of Japanese civilians by North Korean agents [that happened in the 1960s and 1970s]. But they should realize first how many Koreans were forced to work in mines and factories during the Pacific War era." I am telling you this lengthy personal story of mine to disclose that I am not prejudiced. Upon reading this book I started reading upon recommendation of my friend, Samuel Lee, I was enraged by the fact that the Japanese still think Koreans are half-human or something. It is true that some politicians in Korea use the issue of "wartime comfort women" as a convenient tool to deflect some difficult problems at home. And I know some of the girls were kidnapped by Korean slave traders or Japanese private profiteers, which absolves some of the responsibilities of the Japanese military or government. But what were Japanese government leaders thinking when they demanded in 2015 that the pact be irreversible (meaning the Korean side will never bring up the comfort women issue ever again) in exchange for offering $10 million for compensation? All I can think of from all this is the Japanese (at least the Japanese government) still feel they did nothing wrong during the war and it was them who were wronged by the Allied forces. As long as they think that way, no reconciliation will be possible with the peoples of Korea, China, and other Southeast Asian nations affected by Japanese occupation.

"Flutter, Flutter, Butterly" is a heart-wrenching book that will make you demand justice for the comfort women who were brutally tortured by the Japanese soldiers. The juxtaposition of Soonboon's naive actions and thoughts with those of the adults around her is truly heart-breaking. No one, let alone a fifteen-year-old, should have their hopes, dreams, and innocence stolen from them in the way Soonboon's childhood innocence was ripped away from her. No one should have their right to live taken from them the way Imperial Japan and its soldiers did to so many of the Korean people. This book details events that are based on true stories, and they are not easy to read. However, I recommend that everyone read through each and every word, sentence, and page of this book. If reading just the words are hard for people to get through, imagine how hard it was for the girls who had to experience the horrific details in real life. They should not be silenced and with its words, "Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly" allows the voices of comfort women to be spoken and heard by its readers.

As an Author of six books, I'm not easily impressed or emotionally moved. This book did both for me. I could not put it down and read it in one sitting. This is an important story told perfectly. I hope someday justice will come to those who perpetrated such barbaric cruelty and to those that suffered such grievous harm. My the butterflies be with us all.