Character Analysis Of Ichiro Yamada

Ichiro Yamada is the very epidemy of what it means to be alienated and disconnected in post world war 2 united states. Ichiro Yamada The son of Mr. Yamaha a heavy drinker and Mrs. Yamada who is as Japanese as an American can be shown through the book that he is disconnected with the world around him. Ichiro A No No boy becomes alienated because he answered no to when he was asked whether "Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered?”. After rejecting the army, he also in the eyes of many Japanese Americans became a traitor by answering No to "Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or

With his first encounter with the “negroes” Ichiro realizes that things are much different now he is alone and being called racial slurs and Ichiro already knows things are much different in Seattle, he begins to walk faster to avoid being ridiculed even more and this causes him to feel more disconnected with his environment. Ichiro realizes during this passage that the world he left would not be the same this time around. The next quote I choose was “I did not go because was weak and could not do what I should have done. It was not my mother, whom I have never really known, it was me, myself.” (pg 34) This gives a window into ichiros very thoughts into why he felt alienated/disconnected, we can see here that Ichiro felt like he had made a mistake becoming a No No boy, he says that he was weak and should have just enlisted. The most fascinating part is when Ichiro says that he has never really known his mother this tells me that the person who birthed him has not really been existed in his life in a way that he feels a mother should be. This leads me to think that ichiro not being connected to his mother and her nonchalant attitude towards him and his decision makes him feel even more alienated when he returns home,

No No Boy is an incredible story, which illustrates to us how one man can feel so alienated when there are so many people around. No No boy is book about how the interment camp affected Japanese Americans and as we see through the eyes of the fictional character Ichiro Yamada it was not easy to be a No No