How Long to Read The Concept of Failure Represented by the Nisei Characters in John Okada's 'No-No Boy'

How Long Does it Take to Read The Concept of Failure Represented by the Nisei Characters in John Okada's 'No-No Boy'?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 6 minutes to read The Concept of Failure Represented by the Nisei Characters in John Okada's 'No-No Boy' by Michael Burger

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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Augsburg (New English Literatures and Cultural Studies), course: Japanese Canadian and Japanese American Literature, language: English, abstract: A proverb says: "War does not determine who is right, just who is left". Left, that is naturally the veterans who managed not to get killed in battle and thus survived their mission. But left, that is also the ones who refused fighting in a war for their country, for whatever the reason. War and its aftermaths clearly do not take a decision on which of the two behaviors is right. It just leaves the involved people opposing each other contrarily - like left and right. In John Okada's novel No-No Boy, almost all of its characters are immediately confronted with the previously mentioned discord. Set in the Seattle of 1945, No-No Boy deals with the outer and inner conflicts of a young Japanese American, named Ichiro, who refused the draft by a government, which in his eyes deprived him of his identity as an American. The narration starts with its central character, Ichiro, who had just arrived at a bus station in Seattle and now sees himself confronted with a drastically changed and diverse Japanese American community. By telling the story from Ichiro's perspective, Okada thereby convinces his audience with an authentic depiction of "a quest for self-identity under extreme circumstances" (Huang, 2006: 152) in this fragmented and torn segment of society. Like his protagonist, Okada himself was an American-born son of Japanese immigrants, a so-called Nisei, and therefore also got evacuated from his hometown Seattle during the war years. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Okada was in his mid-twenties and, unlike Ichiro in the novel, volunteered in the US Air Force, only to get discharged again directly after the war, in 1946 (see Huang, 2006: 152). Okada therefore can be rated a prime source f

How long is The Concept of Failure Represented by the Nisei Characters in John Okada's 'No-No Boy'?

The Concept of Failure Represented by the Nisei Characters in John Okada's 'No-No Boy' by Michael Burger is 65 pages long, and a total of 16,575 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Concept of Failure Represented by the Nisei Characters in John Okada's 'No-No Boy' Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 30 minutes to read The Concept of Failure Represented by the Nisei Characters in John Okada's 'No-No Boy' aloud.

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