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A 5 page essay that on this love. While Franklin Hata, also affectionately known as "Doc" Hata, to the people of Bedley Run, is the central character of Chang=rae Lee's novel A Gesture Life, his life and its meaning exist within the midst of relationships with women, both in his present and remembered from his past. These relationships provide insight into Hata's character and why his adopted daughter Sunny accuses him of constructing his life around "gestures and politeness" (Lee 95). While even the incidental relationships with women perform this function in the narrative, this aspect of the Hata's characterization is primarily shown in his relationship with Sunny, an adolescent Korean girl named Kkuttaeh, K for short, and his lover Mary Burns. As this illustrates, the writer is choosing to pursue the second option for analysis, as this essay will pursue the literary form of the author's character system throughout the novel. No additional sources cited.
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with women, both in his present and remembered from his past. These relationships provide insight into Hatas character and why his adopted daughter Sunny accuses him of constructing his
life around "gestures and politeness" (Lee 95). While even the incidental relationships with women perform this function in the narrative, this aspect of the Hatas characterization is primarily shown in
his relationship with Sunny, an adolescent Korean girl named Kkuttaeh, K for short, and his lover Mary Burns. As this illustrates, the writer is choosing to pursue the second option
for analysis, as this essay will pursue the literary form of the authors character system throughout the novel. From the beginning of the novel, Lee carefully indicates Hatas value
system, which places a great deal of importance on being an accepted and valued part of his community. He indicates that simple acknowledgment of acquaintance and familiarity is a "small
but equaled pleasure" (Lee 1). Hata sees in the behavior of his neighbors toward him an "almost Oriental veneration as an elder" and it is clear that values this aspect
of his life very much (Lee 1). Slowly, as the novel progresses, the reader begins to see deeper into Hatas psyche. A great deal is revealed via Sunny, his
adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through flashbacks about his youth and his involvement in World War
II as a medic in the Japanese army, it is revealed how Hata felt an intense desire to become fully assimilated and accepted within his adopted culture. He is stationed
in Korea during the war and his duties include providing medical care to the euphemistically named comfort women who were provided for the sexual exploitation of Japanese soldiers. Korea was
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