Denmark

Knut lives in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and attends Copenhagen University as a graduate student of linguistics. In Chapter 1, he expresses his appreciation for walking along the city's canal and looking out at the "gloomy Copenhagen sky" (3) and meets Hiruko for the first time after seeing her on a television talk show. He declares that "Denmark is definitely the world's easiest country to live in" (4) and comments repeatedly on the fact that Greenland used to be a Danish colony, a fact that he believes relevant to his mother's interest in Eskimo people. He tells his mother, "Sending money to an Eskimo won't bring the Great Danish Empire back, you know. Denmark's better off as a small country" (141). The history of colonization between Denmark and Greenland is related to the theme of multiculturalism and immigration, as it demonstrates that the borders of countries have always been, and will...