AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Okada, Hisaye Yamamoto, Executive Order 9066
Document Summary
Written works are reactions to the internment and how it affected the way of living for the. Born in redondo beach, child of japanese immigrants. Interned for three years in poston, az. Spent her life as journalist and writer. The protagonist yoneko has a yearning for religious knowledge, which marpo helps her understand. A literal earthquake occurs, which pushes yoneko away from god: nonexistent . Yoneko"s father gets electrocuted by a line during the quake and is incapitated. Marpo and her mother started working in the fields together. In bulosan, there is a distinction between older, wiser narrator and the young man experiencing life. In this story, we get everything from the pov of a ten year old girl. As readers, we have to put together the latent plot. Father becomes unwell; the parents fight over her nails; father slaps mother; marpo intervenes; mother gives yoneko a ring; go to a hospital;
