filipino no no boy
... The story follows Ichiro, a first generation American-born Japanese-American, who choose not to join the American army in order to escape the internment camp into which he and his family had been placed in the anti-Japanese fever following Pearl Harbor (hence his classification as a No-No Boy). ... This paper follows the story of Ichiro in "The No-No Boy" who struggles to come to terms with himself and resolve the crisis of feeling like he does not belong in the environment in which he lives. ... ” Keywords SELF-DOUBT ADOLESCENCE CIRCUMSTANCE ENVIRONMENT CIVIL RIGHTS HOPELESSNESS VICTIM RESOLUTION Historical context is crucial to the understanding of No-No Boy, since the novel explores unflinchingly the issues of Japanese American identity. ... -John Okada, No-No Boy John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. ... His book No-No Boy was published in 57 and subsequently rejected by his own people. ... John Okada wrote No-No Boy, the first Asian American novel. No-No Boy, published in 1957, is about the post-WWII experience of a Japanese American named Ichiro Yamada. ... John Okada himself was not a no-no boy; indeed, he served in WWII, in the Pacific. ... Of the four books I analyzed in this way this year, No-No Boy was by far my favorite. ... The tolerance and understanding that students will gain from reading this novel should be evident immediately after one has read No-No Boy, even though the novel is enjoyable and is hardly preachy-sounding.