Oe was only 9-years-old when his father and grandmother both passed away, his father died fighting in World War II (par.2). ... The story begins with a group of juvenile delinquents and talks about how they are essentially disowned because of their behavior. ... The book describes how the young boys were brought up and the Japanese hierarchy of power. ... He will also be remembered for being able to write numerous books during his career and keep writing until he was 78-years-old. ... Winning a Nobel Prize for Literature is also no small task that Kenzaburo Oe has achieved which he earned fo...

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She owes them the very joy in their lives of which she stripped and with the lovers themselves dead, she has no other way to make amends for her mistake than document the survival of their love. 2. ... It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point" (350-351). ... How can one honestly justify giving birth to a story so inexperienced and unreal without at all crediting the reality from which it is based? How can one preserve that which is fake and not that which is true? ... The big question here: How can Briony truly ascend to atonement if the one that determines wh...

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And, since it was not clear how to defeat the Japanese since they were so devoted to their country (recall the Kamakasi), Roosevelt wanted Russian involvement in the war. ... The British prime minister was understandable anxious to engage France in the task of occupying and controlling Germany in the general to rebuild French power with a view to help offset the Soviet military presence in Central Europe. ... This opinion was underlined by FDR when in a telegram to Churchill he stated that "You know, of course that after Germany's collapse I must bring American troops home as rapidly as t...

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