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Patricia Kingsley
Min Soo is Daniel and Charlie's mother and Dae Hyun’s wife. Daniel loves his mother dearly and believes they have a strong relationship, as he feels comfortable enough with her to write poetry in her presence. She is distraught when she learns that Charlie was kicked out of Harvard, and she supports her husband's insistence that both of her sons become doctors in order to achieve the American dream. Three years before the start of the novel, Dae Hyun bought Min Soo an oil painting set, and Daniel learns that she used to be a skilled painter. Daniel often wonders if his mom regrets getting married and having children, as he believes that not having those familial ties would've allowed her to be a successful painter. Though she is proud of her Korean identity and acts in ways the novel says are uniquely Korean, Min Soo also understands the importance of allowing her sons to embrace their American identities. She does this by giving her boys American first names (coupled with Korean middle and last names) and later, supporting Daniel when he refuses to become a doctor.
Min Soo Bae Quotes in The Sun is Also a Star
The The Sun is Also a Star quotes below are all either spoken by Min Soo Bae or refer to Min Soo 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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I was so surprised by that. I thought I knew everything about my mom—about both of them, really—but here was this secret history I didn't know about. I asked her why she stopped and she waved her hand in the air like she was wiping the years away.
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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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Min Soo Bae Quotes in The Sun is Also a Star
The The Sun is Also a Star quotes below are all either spoken by Min Soo Bae or refer to Min Soo 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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I was so surprised by that. I thought I knew everything about my mom—about both of them, really—but here was this secret history I didn't know about. I asked her why she stopped and she waved her hand in the air like she was wiping the years away.
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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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