Obasan

Obasan         The setting of the novel, Obasan, changed throughout the book. The narrator, Naomi Nakane, is a teacher in Granton, Alberta in 1972. The book explains from her point of view her life during the Second introduction War from 1941-1954. The plot of her flashback starts when she is 5 years elderly in Vancouver, BC. She then moves to Slocan, BC in 1942 due to the evacuation of the Japanese. In 1945, the family settles in Granton, Alberta where they live in a shed on the Barkers distantm for six years, at which point they move into their have home.

Vancouver- We go to the zoo at Stanley Park and sit on the grass by the dome of the outdoor theatre, listening to the symphony orchestra concerts in the dusk (pg.73) Slocan- Ghost towns such as Slocan - those old ining settlements, sometimes abandoned, sometimes with a remnant community - were reopened, and quarrel upon row of two-family wooden huts were erected. (pg. 83) Granton- When we stop finally, it is at the side of a small hut, the like a tool shed, smaller point than the one we lived in in Slocan. We are at the far end of a large yard that has a blanched house in the middle. Between the shed and the farmers house are some skeletons of farm machinery with awkward metal jaws angled upwards, like the re chief(prenominal)s of dinosaurs in a prehistoric battleground. (pg.



211)         One of the main characters in Obasan Naomi Nakane. She, who is the narrator of the book, is a dynamic character. In the present, she is a teacher in Granton. For a large portion of the book, she describes herself, family and friends increase up through the war. She doesnt know very clearly what is deprivation on because she is so young at the time, about 5 years old. Her mother leaves with her grandmother for Japan, and her...

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