Essay Comparing Hotel At The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet

“Love is a serious mental disease,” proclaimed Plato, a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens; the characters of Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet could relate because of the conflicts they faced. Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is quite similar to William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet. The story tells how the protagonist, Henry, meets with the first love of his life, then, loses her to a World War II internment camp. The parallelism between William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, and Jamie Ford’s, Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, are known during sequences between both stories. In Romeo and Juliet, both protagonists felt affection for each other, until, Romeo and Juliet were seized and were removed from each other. This also happens in …show more content…
Until, he discovers unusual war supplies in a unknown part of the Panama Hotel, that were later discovered to be from the Japanese. He and his son go through most of the war supplies from the Japanese, and find things that belonged to Keiko. His son, henceforth, goes and locates his father’s lost friend so they could reunify their lost relationship. When his son does locate Kieko for his father, Henry seeks out to go and search out for her. I thought of this is a sudden change of realization as Henry found Keiko's things. A rush of excitement came over me as they were planning to find her. Henry finds Kieko in the city of New York with the help from his son, Marty. When they reunite face-to-face, they were astonished by seeing each other after so many distant years. They then have tea together with discussion of what happened when they were apart from each other after those years being separated. This story was a bunch of twisted path and twisting roads that later conjoined together at the end to make a touching ending. In my opinion, this story is a beautiful fictional book with a story to