“When the Emperor was Divine” is an exceptional book. It is a historical novel: powerful‚ deep and human. The author of the book‚ Julie Otsuka‚ takes a reader on a richly detailed tour through landscape of this historical narrative. And she is a superb guide: lucid‚ erudite‚ and witty. She touches several themes and issues such as injustice‚ racism‚ and integration. Injustice and racism are represented at least some significant part of the book. These issues have been tied up with Japanese cultural
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However‚ in the novel When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka‚ her story took place during the World War 2. The novel shows how American has changed their attitudes towards the Japanese because of the war. Ostuka’s family was separated from each other under the American’s investigation due to that they are Japanese Americans. The Japanese Americans lost all of their rights over the suspicious
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people have to adapt to different environments throughout her work‚ “When the Emperor Was Divine”. Throughout both of the works‚ Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart and “the boy” in “from When the Emperor Was Divine” have to develop and adapt to diversity that is brought upon each of their cultures. Achebe and Otsuka demonstrate how people adjust to the confrontation of changes and the fear they encounter when proceeding their true beliefs. When being faced with an opposing force that overwhelms an area‚ changes
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disappearance in When the Emperor Was Divine encompasses both the obvious‚ such as their dog‚ and their father‚ and more complicated‚ subtle themes‚ such as the sense of community that they had with their neighborhood‚ and their worth as human beings as judged by other people. Their father as they knew him before his arrest was forever removed from their lives‚ due to whatever he suffered during his detainment. He was eventually released‚ and so‚ he was not removed from their lives entirely‚ but he was entirely
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When the Emperor was DIvine is a title that has a very strong meaning to it. With this meaning also comes great significance. The title When the Emperor was DIvine is written in past tense because it uses the word when. This is a very small but a very important detail. It is saying that the Emperor is not divine anymore. Divine is a word used to describe somebody as a God. By losing his divinity the Emperor‚ in the eyes of Americans had lost all of his power. This correlates to what had happened
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succeeding as Emperor was decided either dynastically or by Adoptive succession. In Dynastic succession the current Emperor selects one of his relatives to succeed him. In some cases like with Augustus choosing Tiberius‚ the choice is only made because the intended successors are no longer a viable option‚ in this case due to the deaths of his intended heirs. Throughout the rest of the Julio-Claudian line and also with Commodus it seems that the preferred way of handling succession was Dynastic. The
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Justinian was a Byzantine Emperor who helped to renew the Byzantine Empire that would leave an eternal legacy for Western Civilization. During Justinian’s reign‚ the Byzantine Empire was at a time of decline. With Justinian’s visions‚ he was able to lay out a foundation that would help the Byzantine Empire live for many years to come. Justinian was born in 483 AD at Tauresium in Illyricum in the Balkans of what is now central Europe. He was the nephew of Emperor Justin. His uncle Justin had passed
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Was Nero a good Emperor? On the one hand‚ Nero was a good emperor because he saved his people from the great fire that hit Rome in 64 AD. This makes Nero a good emperor because an emperor should take care of his people and should do as much as possible to save their souls. Nero was also a good emperor because after the great fire‚ when all of Rome had burnt down‚ Nero decided to reconstruct the city but this time‚ using much stronger material that would last longer and was more resistant to fire
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specific behavioralcharacteristics that is firmly anchored in symbology‚ a set of discernible bodily movements‚ postures‚ facial expressions and voicemodulations that are acquired and take on strategic social value within the peer context.[3] Cool was once an attitude fostered by rebels and underdogs‚ such as slaves‚ prisoners‚ bikers and political dissidents‚ etc.‚ for whom open rebellion invited punishment‚ so it hid defiance behind a wall of ironic detachment‚ distancing itself from the source
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The Emperor Was Devine is a novel by Julie Otsuka. The novel tells the agony that a Japanese family went through during World War II at the internment camps. Through the story‚ Otsuka aims to show the disbelief‚ despair‚ humiliation‚ and resignation of the people settled and living in the United States and the current events despised and marginalized them. By illustrating the loss of identity of the Japanese family‚ the author demonstrates what may people had to go through in the internment camps
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