No-No Boy by John Okada, Frank Chin (Designed by), Lawson Fusao Inada (Designed by)
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- Pub. Date: December 1980
- 260pp
- Sales Rank: 72,502
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- ISBN-13: 9780295955254
- ISBN: 0295955252
Synopsis
Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded the beginning of an authentic Japenese American literature.
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No-No Boyby Anonymous
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June 05, 2008: In this book, Ichiro??s family was forced to move to the camp after Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It is true that hundreds thousands of Japanese Americans were forced to leave their home and business and to move to relocation camp by Executive Order 9066 signed by the president Roosevelt in reason that the American government didn??t trust their loyalty to America. Thus, this book is historically accurate. In the book, Ichiro??s family was forced to move to the camp and separated in the camp. Moreover, Ichiro is jailed because he refused to go to army and refuse to declare the allegiance to America. This is the reason that he is called as No-No boy. This book is mostly telling about life of Japanese Americans after Japan lost in World War II. Japanese Americans were segregated in society because they were Japanese even though they were born in America and have lived decades in America. They were hard to get a job and other people harassed them. They were also suffered by their identity that they neither think that they are Japanese nor American. Some of people in the book didn??t believe that Japan lost in the war and being panic when they learn truth. They lost everything during World War II including home, business, and their civil rights as U.S. citizen and pride as their native of Japan. Students can learn more about life of Japanese American during and after World War II because the textbook doesn??t tell how Japanese Americans were suffered in racism and how they lost their civil rights, and their panic in their identity. The readers can also think about current racism and civil rights issues through this book. I would recommend this book rate 5 out of 5. This book well described about how racism and prejudice by native gave suffers to Japanese Americans during World War II and after that. This issue can be important because still in America, Racism and civil rights are big impact to society, so by this book, we can understand current issues by comparing with those in World War II. I satisfied my choice of this book and I would highly recommend this book to other person.
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December 11, 2005: I think like many Americans, I was quite unaware of the environment in which those Japanese men who choose not to fight in WWII were subjected to after the war. To be quite honest, I had never even heard the term no-no boy until I read this book. This is definitly an important part of American history that has easily fallen through the cracks. However, Okada does an outstanding job in telling a tale that demonstrates some interesting aspects to the societal conditions that followed Japanese Internment and for those Japanese American boys who chose not to fight, prison. In this book, Okada takes a reader through a touching journey as Ichiro, a young Japanese-American who followed his mothers wishes and choose not to fight in WWII, becomes a no-no boy and goes to prison for two years. It is his experiences that he has after prison in the town that he came from that are so relevant to this book. I think that it was Okada's purpose in writing this text to tell the forgotten story of any no-no boy. Through his character Ichiro, he is able to descibe the emotion and societal frustration that these men probably experienced as they returned to their homes as no-no boys. The layout of the plot is simple and yet well developed and a bit complicated as you read about the characters and their different interpretations to the world around them. Ichiro is a valuable character because it is through his relationships with the other characters that we see the different points of view of a no-no boy. Through Ichiro's friend Kenji, who fought and will die of an uncurable battle wound, we hear the unspoken truth concerning those who condenm no-no boys. 'They think just because they went and packed a rifle they're different but the aren't and they know it. They're still Japs' (163). Kenji recognizes that the frustration Japanese Americans felt concerning ethnic heritage is related to how The United States had treated them because of it and the condenming of a no-no boy is just an artificial way to try and distinguish themselves as something else. While Kenji's viewpoint is just one of the many concerning no-no boys and the treatment of Japanese Americans, it is so valuable to Ichiro directly. Overall, I think that this book has a facinating story to tell and will expand the foundation for interpretation concerning no-no boys for those who decide to read it. It is worthwhile and I plan on reading it again.
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