How are our characters connected to the world?
Well, I think our characters are very connected to the world in this short story "Whites" by Julie Otsuka. They are stated as being a very real part of California's history in farming and existing in the country while having a sense of honor-bound duty to their families back in Japan. They are very real and entrenched in the underbelly of American's society during that time, and do a wonderful job of bringing us a view of that world with the ways they have to talk to Americans, do their work, and speak about their own places where they feel they can be safe. Calling the little Japantown in San Francisco 'more Japanese than the villages in Japan' was a really unique way of bringing us into this perspective of the situation these Japanese people were stuck in, specifically the Japanese women.
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