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Dae Hyun Bae
Charlie is Daniel's abrasive, rude older brother—the narrator insists that being awful is something Charlie never grows out of. Charlie is ashamed of his Korean heritage and especially his Korean family, to the point that he refuses to eat Korean food and even pretends he doesn't understand the language. He especially hates Daniel, who is able to comfortably accept his Korean and American identities, and mocks him every chance he gets. Charlie is home in November, when the novel takes place, after being forced to withdraw for two semesters from Harvard, where he was attending school to be a doctor. Both Dae Hyun and Min Soo are distraught and angry about this, and Charlie chafes under all their negative attention. He overhears his mother telling Daniel to not be like him, which makes him even angrier. In the future, he drops his Korean middle names to become Charles Bay and becomes a corrupt politician. However, he does one good thing in his life: he agrees to give Natasha Daniel's phone number, though he does it because he knows his parents will shift their negative attention to Daniel for having a black girlfriend.
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Chapter 8
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In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean.
So they would know where they were from.
So they would know where they were going.
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Chapter 69
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Of all the ways today could've gone, I couldn't have predicted this. But now I'm sure that everything that's happened today has been leading me to her and us to this moment and this moment to the rest of our lives.
Even Charlie's academic probation from Harvard feels like it's part of the plan to get us to this point.
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Chapter 113
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"My parents are immigrants. They moved to this country for a better life. They work all the time so my brother and I can have the American Dream. Nowhere in the American Dream does it say you can skip college and become a starving artist."
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Charlie Bae Quotes in The Sun is Also a Star
The The Sun is Also a Star quotes below are all either spoken by Charlie Bae or refer to Charlie Bae. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean.
So they would know where they were from.
So they would know where they were going.
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Chapter 69
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Of all the ways today could've gone, I couldn't have predicted this. But now I'm sure that everything that's happened today has been leading me to her and us to this moment and this moment to the rest of our lives.
Even Charlie's academic probation from Harvard feels like it's part of the plan to get us to this point.
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Chapter 113
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"My parents are immigrants. They moved to this country for a better life. They work all the time so my brother and I can have the American Dream. Nowhere in the American Dream does it say you can skip college and become a starving artist."
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