Like his daughter, Sunja, Hoonie survives miraculously after watching his two junior siblings pass away from sickness. But, despite the odds, she proves herself a worthy matriarch by rising above the hardship to survive – in a foreign land and inspiring her children and grandchildren to do the same.įeaturing a man with two major disabilities – one disfiguring his face, another his legs, Hoonie in ‘ Pachinko’ is the perfect example of why people may choose to say ‘there are no excuses for not making it.’ Sunja goes through rough patches of life, losing her father at 13 and being deceived into becoming pregnant at 17.
She is loved so deeply by her parents, Particularly her father – who adores her, bringing her up with love and affection but also with strict nurturing with values and survival skills the old-fashioned industriousness. She is the matriarchal figure for the Baek family and is the only character that connects all four generations.īorn to Hoonie, a physically challenged poor businessman, and his wife Yangjin, Sunja becomes quite the miracle child who escapes death (surviving after the first two issues die of illness) and hereditary disabilities of her family. Sunja becomes the central character of Min Jin Lee’s historical epic, ‘ Pachinko’. Major Characters From All-four Generations Sunja Baek Some of the best of them are explored below. Min Jin Lee’s character creations are spot-on – given that each has their fair share of input in the whole narrative. With ‘ Pachinko,’ there’s a proliferation of characters across plots and scenes, and that’s not unexpected for a book that captures four generations of mankind.
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