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    Summarized & Analyzed "Obasan"
    Summarized & Analyzed "Obasan"
    Summarized & Analyzed "Obasan"
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    Summarized & Analyzed "Obasan"

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    The author was the winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award. She even received the Order of Canada, the Order of British Columbia, and the Order of the Rising Sun Awards.

    Summarized & Analyzed "Obasan"
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    Introduction
    Chapter One: About the Book
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Major Characters
    Chapter Four

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateJan 7, 2017
    ISBN9781370741304
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      Summarized & Analyzed Obasan

      Copyright

      Introduction

      Chapter One: About the Book

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Chapter Three: Major Characters

      Chapter Four: Complete Summary

      Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

      Introduction

      Dear reader,

      This is not the original text of the book Obasan. It is a literary treatise on the mentioned book to help the students of English literature.

      The book introduces you to Obasan, and provides plot overview, characterization and their analyses, complete summary, and critical analysis.

      If you have not read the original book Obasan, it is advisable to go through this treatise first so that you could get to the bottom of the original text. This treatise tells you about the things which you will not find in the original text when you first go through it.

      If you want to read the novel Obasan, please do not order this book.

      All the best

      Student World

      Chapter One: About the Book

      Obasan by Joy Kogawa was first published in 1981. The story describes how the Canadian citizens of Japanese descent were persecuted during the Second World War.

      The book became quite popular soon after its publication. Now it is often required reading for English courses on Canadian Literature at the University level. The book is also prescribed to the students of Ethnic Studies and Asian-American Literature in the United States.

      The novel teems with very strong imagery, and the images of silence, streams, and stones are highly emphatic and meaningful throughout the story. The author presents many interesting dreams throughout the story.

      Memory, prejudice, tolerance, identity, justice, past, literature, writing, etc. are some of the important themes that the author investigates in this novel. The author has contemplated several of these themes in her poetry as well.

      Before writing the present novel, the author used to write only poetry, but this novel marked a departure for her. Before writing this novel, she was famous, but she was really not famous as a writer. By the mid 1980s, everything changed for the author. Suddenly, her work got hailed as part of the new literary canon by the contemporary critics.

      She was the winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award. She even received the Order of Canada, the Order of British Columbia, and the Order of the Rising Sun Awards.

      This novel brought all the name and fame that an author can ever yearn for. Owing to her work, each internment camp Japanese Canadian survivor received twenty one thousand dollars and the reinstatement of their citizenship. They had been deported during the Second World War.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      The story begins in 1972. The place is Granton, Alberta. As the novel begins, we are introduced to Naomi Nakane. She is a thirty-six years old middle school teacher. She is present in her class but she is bored.

      Suddenly, a phone call informs her that her uncle has died. Naomi’s aunt is very old. Aunt is called Obasan in Japanese. Since her husband has just passed away, her aunt is alone. Like any other good niece, Naomi visits her aunt.

      Naomi notices that her aunt is not much perturbed about her Uncle’s death. Naomi repeatedly asks Obasan about her uncle, but she seems to have nothing to say about him. Naomi tries to tell her to take some rest, but she does not move. Eventually, both of them go into the attic.

      At this point, the real story begins. Naomi begins to recall the time she had spent in the internment camps. She remembers how her mother disappeared one day without telling

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