AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Asian Americans, Joyce Carol Oates, Creative Destruction
Document Summary
There is a paradox - recognizes the people that have given him hope (p 160) Experiences two deaths - kenji dies and mother"s death (p 165) P 184 - emi visits him; sense of spark and hope between them. P 186-187 - man buying the drink becomes symbolic - possibility of human exchange. P 196 - found gary on the step ladder . Rehabilitate the i that has been broken. Particular story of ichiro is a story of modernism as a whole. How to return to the self/home after being affected. Kenji"s family is the ideal family of assimilation. Freddie looks for trouble and his own death. Does not care and gets into trouble so he can feel. Does not have people like ichiro does. Gets into a fight with bull and ichiro intervenes. The author sets up the book where the pressure has been rising so the climax is the real fist fight/conflict (building up the conflict)
