Marie G. Lee's My Two Dads

In Marie G. Lee’s “My Two Dads” Marie, a girl who grew up in America, watches as her dad seems to become another person when they travel to Korea. Marie only thought of her dad as an American- a pizza loving, baseball playing father, she didn’t know just how Korean her dad was. She also didn’t know much about the Korean language, and she knew even less about her Korean heritage. One day, Marie’s dad told her a story about the hardships the Korean people had to go through, the hardships he had to go through too. Marie developed a deeper understanding as to why the people in Korea acted the way they did, and even though she still didn’t feel like she belonged, she now could sympathize with her father. “I began to perceive the transformation of