Determination Of One's Behavior

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who is the speaker and of whom they are prevalent within both underlying the entire story. It is ironic that both characters born in Canada would expect to have had their families embrace western traditions and culture, rather they struggle to maintain their own heritage and don't want to loose it. It is ironic because Suzuki and Sun-Kyung struggle to be free of the restrictions of their culture and become more "Canadian" even though they already live in Canada.
Each story deals with multiculturalism, different heritages and cultures they posses the foreign expression aspect of style. Each story uses certain slang or expressions significant to their country. In Suzuki's story the word "Gaijin" is used meaning "to all people in Japan, all non-Japanese - black, white, or yellow are Gaijin or foreigners". Also the word "Ryokan" was used meaning "a traditional Japanese inn". Because Suzuki was a Gaijin in his home country he was not permitted to stay the night in a ...

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or as. In Suzuki's "that in people just as in animals, while my Japanese was primitive as to be useless, being a package of what looked like wood carved in the shape of bananas, most Sansei, like me do not speak Japanese." These comparisons show comparisons between Suzuki and his Japanese ancestors they exemplify the difference and separation he feels from them using the terms like and as. This technique was also used quite effectively in Yi's story also "obliging me to act as either a Korean or a Canadian, I looked like a Korean, I am a Canadian, like all other immigrants in the country, when you are regarded as one of them." Similarly to the use of simile in Suzuki's story the ...

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