She’s also curious in relation to her past and her suffering “There was so much to learn. I had no idea how much I still hurt.” (39) making her character unique from others. Emily wants to bring equality not because she feels sorrowfulness towards the Japanese but because she has suffered, experienced the isolation and the discrimination. If Emily were to be a non-fiction character, she be known as the voice in silence. Regarding Emily’s description of Japanese discrimination, it establishes foreshadowing towards Naomi's storyline. Naomi’s understanding of Emily’s conference notes, journals and collected newspapers reflects her own life as she states “From my years of teaching I know it’s the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain”(41). The knowledge of the prior discrimination shows the audience Naomi and her family suffered from the isolation, unfair treatment, and silence before and after WWII, which develops characters and the plot. Emily’s experience and research changes her perspective, “The past is the future” there is no benefits from silence ; there is only suffering
She’s also curious in relation to her past and her suffering “There was so much to learn. I had no idea how much I still hurt.” (39) making her character unique from others. Emily wants to bring equality not because she feels sorrowfulness towards the Japanese but because she has suffered, experienced the isolation and the discrimination. If Emily were to be a non-fiction character, she be known as the voice in silence. Regarding Emily’s description of Japanese discrimination, it establishes foreshadowing towards Naomi's storyline. Naomi’s understanding of Emily’s conference notes, journals and collected newspapers reflects her own life as she states “From my years of teaching I know it’s the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain”(41). The knowledge of the prior discrimination shows the audience Naomi and her family suffered from the isolation, unfair treatment, and silence before and after WWII, which develops characters and the plot. Emily’s experience and research changes her perspective, “The past is the future” there is no benefits from silence ; there is only suffering