The Eskimo Connection Characters

Hisaye Yamamoto
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Eskimo Connection.

The Eskimo Connection Characters

Hisaye Yamamoto
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Eskimo Connection.
This section contains 543 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
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Emiko Toyama

In the story "The Eskimo Connection," Emiko is a Nisei poet and a widow living in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Emiko remembers living in one of the internment/relocation camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.

Emiko receives a letter from a young Eskimo prisoner, Alden, asking her to critique his essay. Emiko is self-deprecating and wonders what Alden and she could have in common. She is hesitant about making a connection with Alden but eventually decides to make a few suggestions and return the essay to him. This begins their two-year correspondence.

The entire story, while not written in a first-person point of view, is told through Emiko. She has a sense of humor but can sometimes appear to be a bit naïve. She does not want to know why Alden is in jail, preferring instead to create an image of his...

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