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Through Naoe's eyes, immigration is viewed as a curse, a much unwelcome event that has forced her to estrange from Japan. Not only that doesn't she like the new country, she would make no effort to integrate herself within the community. Despite the fact that she herself admits she can understand and speak English, she stubbornly refuses to communicate in other language than Japanese. "I speak my words, speak my words, and I say them all out loud. I yell and sing and mutter and weep from my seat of power. I could speak the other [English] [...], but my lips refuse and my tongue swells in revolt."
The eighty-year-old woman is more upset since her daughter does not engage in conversations with her in their native language, nor does she seem interested in preserving her Japanese roots. Naoe does not understand Keiko's behaviour and she even calls her daughter "a child from my heart, a child from my body, but not from my mouth." The mouth is here a very important object since it is used both for communicating and eating.
Keiko and her mother have a rather cold relationship, and this might be one of the reasons why daughter refuses to speak Japanese to Naoe. But aside from this, Keiko is determined to increase her efforts and integrate her family within the Canadian community.
Muriel is the last generation of immigrants; she has willingly accepted her Japanese-Canadian nationality and has successfully integrated in the community. Granddaughter preserves limited knowledge about her...
They all symbolize the necessary steps towards integration within a new community: Naoe's behavior stands for the initial reticence towards the new country; Keiko's approach stands for the need to still preserve some connection with the roots, but also to make the necessary steps towards learning the new language and customs; and Muriel, she represents the last step of integration, the phase where one has left all recollections of his past country behind and has embraced the culture of the new homeland.
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Hiromi Goto, Athabasca University, Centre for Language and Literature, November 2, 2007, http://www.athabascau.ca/cll/writers/goto/goto.html, last accessed on November 12, 2007
Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms, the Women's Press Ltd., April 10, 1997
Dusica Marinkovic-Penney, the Women from Hiromi Goto's Novel 'Chorus of Mushrooms' and Their Canadian experience, Grin, Scholarly Publishing House, 2003, http://www.grin.com/en/preview/27690.html, last accessed on November 12, 2007
Hiromi Goto, Athabasca University, Centre for Language and Literature, November 2, 2007
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