Wow, Amy you hit me hard with your post “Emotionally Immobilized”. I wish I would have had the chance to read that very personal letter written to Joy Kogawa. I completely agree with you in the sense that “emotionally mobilized” is exactly how I felt reading Obasan and being unaware to so many of the tragedies that took place in my home nation. Every page of Obasan made me cringe, and not just because the Japanese-Canadians were treated horribly but because I simply didn’t know how to react. I am still stunned that I was so unaware of this for the majority of my life thus far. I feel as if a lot of us B.C. students are able to understand exactly what you are articulating when you pull out such powerful words like “emotionally mobilized”.

Devon Coady