World War II, a disastrous period in time that had left millions dead and just as many suffering the losses but amidst all the chaos and anguish, on January 22nd of 1945, an article was released in Alberta with the caption, “Grinning and Happy.” Finding said article almost forty years later the main character, portrayed from Kogawa’s point of view, is reminded of the hardship that had occurred in the fields of the beet farm she was forced to work at. No one had documented of what happened behind the large piles of beets and smiling owners, of the other side that Kogawa lividly remembers.
Though the article, grinning and Happy, may have been known as the only official copy of how matters went, to say it has historical accurately captured
Though the article, grinning and Happy, may have been known as the only official copy of how matters went, to say it has historical accurately captured