Analysis Of Tears Of Autumn By Yoshiko Uchida

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Tears of Autumn In “Tears of Autumn”, the author, Yoshiko Uchida, uses the title to convey the message that struggle and rebirth go hand in hand; having the “tears” in “Tears of Autumn” symbolize the struggles and “autumn” to represent the rebirth. Considering her situation as a Japanese woman traveling alone to a foreign place, Hana Omiya will confront some bumps in the road, or in this case, “tears”. She first experiences a bump when she must decide whether to, “marry a fanner and spend her life working beside him planting, weeding, and harvesting” or to, “go to America to make [a] lonely man a good wife."(Uchida, 2). After an internal struggle, Hana makes the decision to head for a new life in America. However,as she lays in the boat to

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