Buddha In The Attic Comparison

Everyone is connected by six-degrees. We are all intertwined, yet we all have our own independent lives. A group of people can have the same experience and leave with completely different memories. One’s actions has the ability to affect everyone else’s surrounding them, yet people spend so much time only thinking of themselves. Words have the power to change the way people see themselves. People’s life experiences “drip” into everyone else’s that they encounter and shape how they view the world: humans are shaped by their own ideas, and what is learned. Our DNA memory is a compilation of our own memories and the experiences of people who we surround ourselves with. In Julie Otsuka’s Buddha in the Attic and Haruki Murakami’s Tony Takitani, character’s lives are shaped by events that happened to other people, who they

In both stories, the aspect of time also leads to the character’s inability to remember memories and questioning of the existence of people who they had once loved and cared about. Human beings are all made up of a collection of memories and stories that we are told, but all memories are eventually forgotten in time.
Julie Otsuka’s Buddha in the Attic, takes place in San Francisco in the 1930s, in the years before Japanese Internment, which began t in 1942. The book begins with a group of Japanese mail-order brides arriving in the United States, waiting to meet their future husbands. The book follows their lives, illustrating the struggles of immigrants in the United States and the pursuit of the American Dream. The final chapter entitled, The Disappearance, tells the story of the white neighbors that lived alongside Japanese families and the effects that their departure has on their families and