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This 5 page paper discusses the novel "Obasan" by Joy Kogawa and particularly the main character's aunts' reaction to the internment of Japanese-Canadians, and how their reactions are representative of those of the Japanese Canadian community itself. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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fate; the story of the Japanese-Canadians is not as well known, but the episode is still as shameful as its U.S. counterpart. This essay examines Joy Kogawas novel with regard
to the reaction of the main characters aunts to the internment, and how that reflects opinion within the Japanese community itself. Discussion Interring citizens because of their race is discrimination
of the most disgusting kind, and both the U.S. and Canada are guilty of this crime. It seems that human beings will never learn to look at each other as
people first and skin colors second. This is racial profiling taken to its ultimate and tragic conclusion. The book is narrated by the now-36-year old Naomi Nakane, who as a
four-year old girl was forcibly relocated from her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, a seaport, to the inland town of Slocan in Alberta, and from there to an even smaller
town, Granton, where the family (or those members still together-Naomis mother has made a badly-timed trip to Japan) works in the beet fields (Rose). The move from Vancouver is particularly
difficult for Naomis uncle, a fisherman (Rose). This uncle is the husband of Naomis aunt, the Obasan of the title. With her mother in Japan and her father sent to
work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aunt who dominates the
book. Obasan is really an archetype: the earth mother, the wise woman, the old woman who has learned all the cruelties of life through long experience. Kogawa describes her thus:
Squatting here with the putty knife in her hand, she is every old woman in every hamlet in the world. You see her on a street corner in southern
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