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Japanese-Canadians following post World War II suffered through the continued effects of the interment camps and were victims of racism. Hiromi Goto’s use of different form and structure throughout her book “Chorus of Mushrooms” emphasizes multicultural differences and applies deeper meaning to the context. Form is used to exemplify important parts of the story by bringing the focus into them. The author uses the bolded words “Mukashi, mukashi, omukashi” (Goto 18) before everyone of Obachans (Naoe) stories, in Japan this saying is used at the beginning of stories and means in ancient times, in ancient times, in very ancient times. By bolding these words the author highlight its importance in the beginning and continued repetition enforces
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