John Okada’s No-No Boy

The United States is a country that admits freedom, equality, justice and, among other things, the opportunity to immigrate America's dreams. However, when President Franklin Roosevelt issued presidential decree No. 9066 in the 1940s and ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans to move to camps, "America" ​​was almost indistinguishable It was. Regarding the outcome, little is known except for the historical documents and stories of the affected people. Through John Okada's novel taboo boy, the result of detention can be understood more clearly through the event of Ichiro of the hero.

Beginning with No Boy of John Okada, Japanese Americans who returned from the camp at the end of World War II were juxtaposed with Japanese Americans who promised to return to China from overseas services. The main character, Ichiro Yamada, is facing a personal dilemma of national identity. He condemned his stubborn Japanese tradition and Americans locked them. His parents can only speak Japanese, ignoring the influence of the United States. Born and raised in the United States, Ichiro insisted it to be a Japanese nationalist, so he was imprisoned. Ichiro had never been to Japan, but his mother insisted that the whole family was Japanese. The conflict between generations of immigrants and this generation is the stimulation of the Ichiro identity crisis in the whole novel.

No-no boy is a novel by 1957, the only novel published by Japanese American writer John Okada. This story is the story of a Japanese American who detained Japanese Americans during the Second World War. This novel, written in 1946, is written in Seattle, Washington state, and is written with the voice of an omniscient narrator who often incorporates the voice of the hero. After World War II, in 1946, Japanese Chinese men in Seattle, Washington and Ichiro Yamada, a former student at the University of Washington, returned. He spent two years at American American American camp in America and served in federal prison for two years as refusing to fight with the United States during the Second World War. Returning home now, Ichiro accepts American customs and values ​​and works with her parents to work hard with his brother Taro.