There were a lot of stories this week. Starting off with the first three by Kobayashi, similar to last week the first story sunrise talked about nuclear bomb but what I really liked was the comparison that the story made between the bomb and the sun. The second story to me was a lot more feeling, the fact Ko was forgetting her own past/youth, but there was still her family to tell her story for her. The last of the three really tied in the three stories, the three generations of this family and how their experiences/traumas build off onto their children. “Abandoning a Cat” we have another story in theme about family, this one was the telling of a father. This story honestly was a hard read due to its heavier content. “Uneno Station” had us look through the perspective of a homeless man and I feel this perspective isn’t really shown in other stories, at least not from the ones I can recall. The part where he only sees his fellow homeless people while other people to him are just puddles of water is very interesting to read, I think it’s more so because those other people aren’t really having an impact in his life(?) where as he interacts with the other homeless people thus even if there are people passing by he wouldn’t really take note of them as much. “Love Isn’t Easy…” I don’t know about this story, it just didn’t really leave an impact to me. Like I guess the part about loving those who won’t sing back to you was something that stuck with me but the whole anthem symbolism just didn’t do it for me. This week’s readings were filled with war and its effects on multiple generations. It showed more on how war isn’t just the fighting happening but its long term effects on people and how the memory and trauma of it passing on.
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