In the historical fiction novel of Obasan written by Joy Kogawa, Naomi Nakane, a thirty six year old maid teacher in Toronto, Canada review the events in her life. This revealed the theme, which is the danger of dead air around the home and how there are no way out of it. Kogawa allow the reader to understand the theme by reaction of Naomi and Stephen in their major events.
In Obasan World War Two is going on, so Naomi Nakane whole are put into camps making them prisoner. Other people discriminate them in calling them hateful epithet like “Japs”, which led to Naomi Nakane brother Stephen to hate or found on pond the his own japanese culture. This cause problem for Stephen because hating your own culture is equal to as hating your own self, even so Stephen is a renowned musician plus won first place prize for original piano composition; “but he still seem irritable and is almost completely non communication with Obasan” claimed …show more content…
Even so Obasan moved in with them it was still an emptiness inside the home to Naomi as if something were missing; this something was love a mother love for a child a type emotion which can’t be replace; this is what Obasan never actually do for Namoi, she never gave Namio advice about life or taught how to deal with other people. In addition of this the more Naomi don’t tell someone about how the love she never felt live inside is the more she become timid or enslave into someone else will or scary to lives. “ Namoi would like to go with Kenji but Uncle say I must not go on raft”; “Namio hate school, running the gauntlet of white kids in the wood close to home” But Naomi did found an escape knowing what happen to her mother; knowing that her mother were injured in a bombing and pass gave Naomi a sense of peace knowing her mother was
In Obasan World War Two is going on, so Naomi Nakane whole are put into camps making them prisoner. Other people discriminate them in calling them hateful epithet like “Japs”, which led to Naomi Nakane brother Stephen to hate or found on pond the his own japanese culture. This cause problem for Stephen because hating your own culture is equal to as hating your own self, even so Stephen is a renowned musician plus won first place prize for original piano composition; “but he still seem irritable and is almost completely non communication with Obasan” claimed …show more content…
Even so Obasan moved in with them it was still an emptiness inside the home to Naomi as if something were missing; this something was love a mother love for a child a type emotion which can’t be replace; this is what Obasan never actually do for Namoi, she never gave Namio advice about life or taught how to deal with other people. In addition of this the more Naomi don’t tell someone about how the love she never felt live inside is the more she become timid or enslave into someone else will or scary to lives. “ Namoi would like to go with Kenji but Uncle say I must not go on raft”; “Namio hate school, running the gauntlet of white kids in the wood close to home” But Naomi did found an escape knowing what happen to her mother; knowing that her mother were injured in a bombing and pass gave Naomi a sense of peace knowing her mother was