Analysis Of Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet

The book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet begins in 1986 where Henry Lee, a Chinese-American who’s now in his 50s, approaches a crowd at the Panama Hotel in Seattle where remaining belongings of Japanese families are discovered. This triggers Henry to begin reminiscing upon his own experience that took place in 1942. The story transitions to Henry as a child and his experiences in the years of World War II. It all begins when the devastating attack at Pearl Harbor has taken place, and now Henry receives terrible treatment from his peers at an all-white school. Henry’s father even attached a pin to differentiate his ethnicity from the Japanese, that demonstrated the ignorance of society. The author, Jamie Ford, takes the chance to focus