10 Major Events in the story.

1. The Koreans were forced to change their names to Japanese.

2. The Olympics race, where Sohn Kee Chung, a Korean, was reported Kitei Son of Japan.

3. Sun-hee was awarded top student in kanji, and was called a chin-il-pa.

4. Neighbourhood accountings, when Mrs. Ahn could not count in japanese.

5. Tae-Yul's bicycle was taken away by the Japanese soldiers.

6. Uncle working for the resistance.

7. The soldiers searched their house, where they found Sun-Hee's diary and burnt it. 

8. Tae-Yul writing letters to his family about his training in Seoul.

9. Tae-yul becoming a kamikaze.

10. Tae-yul was not dead and returned home.