1. When the Empire Was Divine
There is some evidence to suggest the relationship between the father and the Emperor in Otsuka's novel, and the reason why the U.S. government arrests him on purpose. First of all, the father physically has typical characteristics of Japanese ancestry such as black hair, slanted eyes, thick glasses, thin lips and high cheekbones, and also he represents a symbolic person of Japanese-American who are from Japan living and working on west coast at that time. ... Moreover, in the section "When the Emperor was Divine", the mother traces back to her memories right after her husband i...
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- Approx Pages: 4
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate