Every relationship plays a key role in making someone who they are today. Relationships may vary from family to friends, but whatever the case maybe they shape over time, just like the attack on Pearl Harbor shaped America into a war torn country. People are daft when it comes to this, because everyone has their own relationship. This idea coincides with the novel, Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford showing the reader the many different relationships within the novel. Changes affecting Henry are shaping his personality as we can see with the relationship between Henry and his father. Henry and his fathers relationship is tainted. Throughout the novel they rarely talk and when they do they either talk about the war or schooling.
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Henry, having to deal with his father growing up, retained some of his parenting skills. "Pops, we haven't talked about much of anything since mom died, you know?"(80). In the quote, Marty is pondering why they don't talk as much as they used to when Ethel passed away. When hearing Marty's response the reader knows why this is. Henry and his father didn't have the greatest relationship and follows into Marty's life. After Ethel's passing something was on Henry's mind, the old record. After hearing that the Panama Hotel was filled with Japanese belongings he invited Marty to help him search for it with his fiancé Samantha. "Henry signed in, whispering, 'We'll be in the basement. I brought help this time…,'"(107). The ironic part about this is Keiko split up Henry and his father where as Samantha actually brought them closer. The bringing up of Keiko is an important factor because she shaped his character into something …show more content…
Many of the characters in the novel had a relationship with Henry. Henry and his father never really saw eye to eye, where as with Marty they had communication and the reader can tell that Henry will support Marty no matter what. He had to go through a lot of challenges dealing with a Chinese Nationalist father and being prosecuted for looking Japanese shaped his characters personality. Henry has become the man he is today from all of the main points throughout the
Henry, having to deal with his father growing up, retained some of his parenting skills. "Pops, we haven't talked about much of anything since mom died, you know?"(80). In the quote, Marty is pondering why they don't talk as much as they used to when Ethel passed away. When hearing Marty's response the reader knows why this is. Henry and his father didn't have the greatest relationship and follows into Marty's life. After Ethel's passing something was on Henry's mind, the old record. After hearing that the Panama Hotel was filled with Japanese belongings he invited Marty to help him search for it with his fiancé Samantha. "Henry signed in, whispering, 'We'll be in the basement. I brought help this time…,'"(107). The ironic part about this is Keiko split up Henry and his father where as Samantha actually brought them closer. The bringing up of Keiko is an important factor because she shaped his character into something …show more content…
Many of the characters in the novel had a relationship with Henry. Henry and his father never really saw eye to eye, where as with Marty they had communication and the reader can tell that Henry will support Marty no matter what. He had to go through a lot of challenges dealing with a Chinese Nationalist father and being prosecuted for looking Japanese shaped his characters personality. Henry has become the man he is today from all of the main points throughout the