Saturday, July 25, 2009
WEEK QUESTION 10
The poem titled as "In Response To Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita talks about a young girl who is very much Americanized but at the same time contains the Japanese decent in her. Throughout the poem she reminds the readers that she characterizes herself as an American. The girl goes on by saying "I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks, and my favorite food is hot dogs." She very much likes America because everything she says and describes would represent a typical American teenager in her. Also, the girl does not seem to know anything about American/Japanese conflict. When her best friend, who is white tells the girl "You're trying to strart a war, giving secrets away to the Enemy." The girs does not know what is really happening and did not know what the response should be, so she just disregarded it without saying much in regards to that.
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I agree with you completely on how the fourteen year old girl is americanized. I believe though that she has a sense of the American/Japaneese conflict because when her friend shirley tells her "You're trying to strart a war, giving secrets away to the Enemy"(971) The fourteen year old girl says "I gave her a packet of tomatoe seeds and asked her to plant them for me, told her when the first tomatoed ripened she'd miss me" (978). By her doing so, she is using the tomatoe to express their friendship. They grew up together in grade school as friends and now that they are getting older poeple tend to segregate, loosing friendships due to this American/japaneese conflict. Hence the tomatoe grows from the seeds and when ripened reffering to Shirley maturing, she will miss her childhood friend.
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