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Obasan Study Guide

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by Joy Kogawa
About 79 pages (23,620 words)
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Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 Summary

Naomi spends the night in Aunt Obasan's home and is awakened when Aunt Obasan enters Naomi's room on her way to the attic. Naomi accompanies Aunt Obasan to the attic to assist the elderly woman in her search for an item which she does not identify for Naomi. Sifting through layers of dust and cobwebs, Aunt Obasan continues her search for the item while Naomi waits patiently. Aunt Obasan is frustrated when she does not find what she had hoped to but does locate Uncle Isamu's identification card and takes that with her, when she and Naomi leave the attic.

After this impromptu nocturnal search, Naomi has a disturbing dream about people enduring forced labor under the watchful eyes of a British officer and a robotic dog. Uncle Isamu also.....

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