I think it is perfectly ethical for the author to insert themselves into a story like this one considering it will help the reader better understand C...

Christopher McCandless is very strong to be able to get rid of every single belonging, his relationships between friends and family. I feel like a lot...

Megan When I was 13 I begged my parents to get me a budgie, which is a parakeet. I got a white one and a blue one for Christmas that year. I didn't...

In my book The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka, is about a group of Japanese women who are sold off to husbands in America and have to deal with h...

"Enemy face" is essentially people who see others who look Japanese or are and since they are at war and threatened by them they see them as an enemy....

The stereotype for the Japanese Women in my book is that they are easy to work out in the fields. "A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day....

Something similar happened to a random man who was mistaken to be Japanese but was a Chinese man. He was beaten because people thought he was Japanese...

In my book The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, many women from Japan were sold off into marriage by their parents in the early 1900s. Towards the...