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Walter Park is a Korean American store owner and gunshot victim. Walter was shot in the head at a traffic light and forced to undergo a partial lobectomy, permanently changing his life. During his interview with Smith, he is heavily sedated and speaks incoherently of “feel[ing] kinda lonely” and wanting to return to Korea, though he has no idea that his words don’t make sense. Smith includes these interviews with Walter Park and his family members to complicate the idea of justice. Giving voice to the riot’s victims gives credence to the play’s thesis that in an unjust society, one person or community’s justice necessarily comes at the expense of another.
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Walter Park Character Timeline in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The timeline below shows where the character Walter Park appears in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Kinda Lonely
Smith interviews the Park family. They sit in the Parks’ new, modern home in Fullerton. Walter Park was shot through the eye during the riots. June, his wife, sits next to him,...
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Walter Park recalls feeling “lonely” inside his store. He decided he needed to go to Korea to...
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To Drive
Smith interviews Chris Oh, a medical student, and Walter Park ’s stepson. Oh reveals his stepfather doesn’t know he’s had a partial lobectomy after the...
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And in My Heart for Him
Smith interviews June Park, Walter Park ’s husband. June cries as she talks about Walter, who came to the U.S. 28...
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Execution Style
Smith interviews Chris Oh, Walter Park ’s stepson. Oh explains how a witness stated that Walter pressed on the accelerator after...
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