Response Essay #3
The “Diary of a Vagabond” was written by Hayashi Fumiko, a popular novelist. The story was an I-novel based on the diaries she kept in the 1920s. Her mother and step father were itinerant peddlers who move from place to place, and she has to work for her own tuition in her high school. She often wandering and slept in public toilet.
The first part of the story focuses on the female protagonist, “I did not have single close friends, since I changed schools seven times in four years” (Vagabond, 124). She describes a lot of the instances that happened in her teen. As we weave through it, the story begins to spend more on her lover, “I wrote a long letter to the man on the island who had abandoned me” (Vagabond 131). And the
The “Diary of a Vagabond” was written by Hayashi Fumiko, a popular novelist. The story was an I-novel based on the diaries she kept in the 1920s. Her mother and step father were itinerant peddlers who move from place to place, and she has to work for her own tuition in her high school. She often wandering and slept in public toilet.
The first part of the story focuses on the female protagonist, “I did not have single close friends, since I changed schools seven times in four years” (Vagabond, 124). She describes a lot of the instances that happened in her teen. As we weave through it, the story begins to spend more on her lover, “I wrote a long letter to the man on the island who had abandoned me” (Vagabond 131). And the