Chang-Rae-Lee's Native Speaker Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 1. The Korean businessman put money into a general account and the members share their money constructing relationships on their trust and honor.
  2. 3. Henry’s wife, but Henry and she has been divorced because they feel guilty that they did not save their son. In the story, she is known as a speech therapist, who mainly teaches immigrant(Asian) children. Some children have a problem with their mouth or ear structure, but most of them are not native speakers.
  3. 4. a person who tries to obtain certain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country or even military affairs. It is also one of the lists from the word of how Lelia expresses her husband, Henry. In the list, there were 18 words that express Henry such as emotional alien, genre bug, neo-America, great in bed and etc. This also implies that Lelia can’t understand Henry even though they spend time with each other a lot, had a baby and shares the same bed. Due to the different backgrounds and cultures, Lelia couldn’t understand Henry.
  4. 5. She is a person who works with Henry in Kwang’s political campaign. When Kwang’s headquarter was burnt-out and terrorized, she thought that it is a crazy thing to appear in a media in front of the burnt headquarters. She thought that the image implies the campaign has been disabled which gives a negative impact on the voter. Later in the story, she provides us with information about Kwang. For example, she officially answers the mystery of Eduardo’s apartment incident.
  5. 6. When the Korean War has occurred, many Korean children called U.S soldiers in Miguk. It is a racist term when Henry’s friends were teasing it.
  6. 9. One that gives or donates something. The _____ is an important factor in this story because Hoagland wants a list of names who were planned to revenge Kwang for Eduardo’s death.
  7. 10. A person who lives permanently in a foreign country. A/an _______ is also an important element of this story because the story goes over with issues related to immigration that could trigger discrimination. For example, Henry’s father business also talks about hiring immigrant workers in his shop or the main character of this story, Henry, who was immigrated to America.
  8. 12. a violent person who commits a crime. When Kwang and Henry went to the Korean club, Kwang tells Henry that he thinks Eduardo was double-crossing him. He thinks Eduardo was telling the report to De Roos who Kwang was considering going against.
  9. 15. He has a strong connection with John Kwang at the beginning of the story. Later, when the campaign headquarters was burn-out, Henry found out that _______ was killed.
  10. 16. Advertising a series of social or political messages that share common ideology or theme. Henry’s main job is to infiltrate Kwang’s ________. After Eduardo’s death, Kwang wants Henry to take Eduardo’s work of his accounting contribution from _______
  11. 17. He is the current mayor of New York City. He wants to be re-elected in the election. He is opposed to the strong candidate, John Kwang. Eduardo was suspected by John Kwang that he was betraying Kwang helps ________.
  12. 19. It is a language that uses from South Korea and North Korea. This story contains ____ culture such as the word ggeh, ajumma, Byung-ho. This language is important in this story because many characters use this language and connected to this culture.
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  1. 2. He is Henry’s boss who tries to gather other people’s secrets or information for certain purposes. He calls Henry for his newest assignment: investigating Korean-American politician, John Kwang. Later in the story, he wants to know how much money is coming in from Kwang’s donor and ggeh. Later in the story, he plans for revenge to Kwang by publishing his donors and ggeh details
  2. 4. She is Kwang’s assistant. She confides the secret to Henry that she wants Henry to take a more important position. As an assistant, she asks Henry to encourage Kwant to appear in the press. When the political polls show Kwang’s approval rating was drastically falling, she stays away from Kwang.
  3. 7. He is an American politician who is running for the mayor in New York. Where he works, has mostly populated with Asians and recent immigrants from Africa and South America. He has a particular connection with Eduardo and not scared of associating with other people.
  4. 8. He was Henry and Lelia’s son but he was dead because he was smothered by the other boys when he played a game with them. Lelia believes that the death was caused by Henry and herself not carefully taking care of him. If he was alive, Henry’s family would move their house that has good school and infrastructure, but his death changed everything
  5. 11. The word means close familiarity or friendship. This term is important in this story, each character is connected with other characters with ______. Since the main character of this story, Henry, knows how to get close with others and figure about their secret and gather information by ________. Kwang also values _____, so he does afraid of having a close relationship with each other.
  6. 13. He is the main character of this story who is also known as Lelia’s husband. He is good at lying and good at figure out other’s secrets. He also works for Hoagland who tries to get information about Korean-American politician John Kwang. Later he is only one who knows the secret of Eduardo’s death and detailed information about ggeh. However, he keeps the fidelity with Kwang that he doesn’t tell any information related to ggeh.
  7. 14. It is also known as a speech-language pathologist who tries to help people who have language-related disorders. It is also Lelia’s job is ___________. This story discusses the difference in nationality with race and pronunciation. Henry was also teased by his English pronunciation because he immigrated from Korea.
  8. 18. The smoke grenade produces a gas rather than an explosion. The ______ _____ was considered a serious threat to Kwang. Jack thought that the church incident could be a sign that someone can be threatening to Kwang, but Henry thinks that the accident was caused by two eleven years old kids.