The red sun bleeds

My thesis is an excerpt from a historical fiction and magical realism novel. Ran, a young Korean girl, grows up in Japan-occupied Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s. When she comes of age at thirteen, she discovers she can transform into a gumiho, or nine-tailed fox, a creature from Korean folklore. She must reckon with her transformative state to take down and assassinate key players of the Japanese occupation. This story utilizes an adaptation of a traditional tale to explore the ways Koreans women lived with the double-bind of gender oppression and imperialism, but also resisted with a nationalistic spirit.