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Prologue-Part 1: Chapter 4

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Park, Yeonmi. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom. Penguin Books, 2015. Paperback.

· In the Prologue, Yeonmi Park and her mother crossed the frozen Yalu River from North Korea into China on March 31, 2007.

· They were led by a young North Korean smuggler who had bribed some of the guards to let them cross.

· Yeonmi was not dreaming of freedom.

· She did not know what freedom was.

· They left so they would not die from starvation, disease, or from the inhuman conditions of a prison labor camp.

· They also left because they were searching for Yeonmi’s older sister, Eunmi, who had left for China a few days earlier.

· After they crossed, Yeonmi heard her mother crying out, and she realized they “had come to a bad place, maybe even...

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