The Tattooer Culture

Humans create a pattern of likes and preferences called "Culture". The way we think about a specific topic, the language, the way we feel and act, the beliefs, the type of food we like, as well as music, among many others. All this set of likes and preferences are transmitted from generation to generation. In the two stories which were treated in "The Tattooer" class and "The Women's Swimming Pool," it is not very difficult to realize that they are largely focused on the culture and traditions. "The Tattooer" is a story that is full of coldness. This reading is about a young man named Seikichi. Seikichi was a well-known tattoo artist in Japan because of a special ability to tattoo all his clients. This young man had …show more content…
This story is about a young woman who, after the death of her parents, stays with her grandmother, a very conservative and strict lady. This young woman dresses in long sleeves and all the time is covering her body since her grandmother is a very strict lady, because of her religion. This girl dreams of leaving the place where she and her grandmother live and go to a women-only pool in the city.The girl lets her grandmother know she wants to go to that pool since it is only for women and no man will see her. Finally, the girl convinces her grandmother to take her to the famous swimming pool. When they reach the city she realizes that everything is very different, people behave differently and the way of dressing is also very different from her and her grandmother, but she did not care much, she just wanted to find the pool only for women. She goes in search of the pool and leaves her grandmother resting since the granny was very agitated. She finds the pool and returns to look for her grandmother to the place where she had left, but her grandmother was lying on the pavement praying. In conclusions, the girl does not get to enter the famous swimming pool, since she had a lot of pressure because her grandmother did not agree with what she