She struggles to please her parents by learning an unfamiliar language while surrounded by strangers. With a name “Yoon” meaning “shining wisdom”, the main character thinks that her name looks much happier written in Korean than in English. (Apr.My Name Is Yoon is a moving story depicting a seven-year-old Korean girl’s difficult adjustment to her new life in America. Yoon may be new to America, but her feelings as an outsider will be recognizable to all children. A turning point comes when a classmate offers Yoon a cupcake, and the heroine imagines herself as one her round face a leafed cherry atop the pastry as she floats above the classroom. A close-up of Yoon's face shows feline ears protruding from her jet-black hair, while in the background, a real cat balances on a window sill. My mother would find me and cuddle up close to me." Yoon's words betray her sadness and insecurity at relinquishing some of her Korean identity, while Swiatkowska's painterly artwork translates the girl's fantasies.
Instead, she fills her paper with other words she learns from the teacher, such as cat. At school, Yoon refuses to write her name. She sits at a large white table where her father teaches her to write her name in English ("I did not like YOON. With a turn of the page, readers see Yoon dwarfed by the seemingly endless checked flooring of her new American house. Swiatkowska's ( Hannah's Bookmobile Christmas) opening spread similarly conveys a sense of starkness, with a landscape of rolling hills and towering trees in small clusters the serene narrator appears in a white dress. I came here from Korea, a country far away," begins Recorvits's ( Goodbye, Walter Malinski) first-person narrative, as noteworthy for what it leaves out as for what it includes.
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