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In five pages this paper summarizes the final three chapters of Chang-Rae Lee’s 1995 debut novel Native Speaker, with discussion and comprehension questions also provided. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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intricately interwoven plots of personal tragedy and political intrigue, offers glimpses of Parks surveillance activities while at the same time he and his Caucasian wife Lelia attempt to put the
pieces of their emotionally broken marriage together following the accidental death of their young son Mitt. The first of these three concluding chapters opens with a description of the
media attention surrounding disgraced New York councilman and mayoral candidate John Kwangs departure from a local police precinct after posting bail in a drunk-driving accident that left 16-year-old Korean prostitute
Chun Ji-yun comatose at Beth Israel Hospital. Janice, Kwangs press secretary, is "going crazy" trying to deal with the media frenzy surrounding this political scandal. Reports that Kwang
was involved in an underground illegal immigrant ring add fuel to an already reputation-damaging fire. Henry observes, "A figure in scandal is like a heavy metal, the closer and
longer you stay near, the more lasting the effects" (Lee, 1995, p. 324). Janice leans heavily on Henry for support, but he feels conflicted because Dennis Hoaglands intelligence agency
hired him as a spy to infiltrate Kwangs campaign but at the same time feels sympathy and compassion for the Korean American politicians ordeal. Henrys feelings of loneliness and
isolation are revealed in a type of flashback manner that links the social alienation he has always felt in America as a result of his ethnicity. He muses, "I
felt alone... No Korean father or mother, no taunting boys or girls, no teachers showing me how to say my American name. Id then run back inside and look
in the mirror, desperately hoping in that solitary moment to catch a glimpse of who I truly was" (Lee, 1995, p. 323). While
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