All I Asking For Is My Body

March 30, 2008 bonkie02

I definitely vote this better than reading Frank Chin. Milton Murayama’s All I Asking For Is My Body and Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter had some similarities between them. For example Sone had always felt ashamed of being Japanese and in Murayama’s section that we read he says that he had also felt ashamed about being Japanese. In Nisei Daughter Sone’s mother told her to not feel ashamed of being Japanese and in Murayama they have the same thing. He says “Be proud you’re Japanese. Never bring shame to the Japanese race. What if they, all of them, bring shame to me?” In the Nisei Daughter Monica Sone feels the same way about her heritage and being both Japanese and American. Both novels talked about the internment camps as well. They both described the camps to very horrible. Murayama described the strict rules that went around in Hawaii such as a Japanese couldn’t carry more than two-hundred dollars with him or her. I also found it interesting that Murayama had many Christian things such as symbols and views. I liked that his father wanted his family to have a Christian background because it was like blending two different cultures except with religion, I think.