Monday, July 2, 2007

Assignment #11(A)

Nakamura-san was paid, as a beginner, a hundred and seventy yen- then less than fifty cents-a day. At first, the work was confusing, terribly tiring, and a bit sickening. Her boss worried about her paleness. She had to take many days off. But little by little she became use to the factory. She make friends. There was a family asmosphere. She got raises. In the two ten minute breaks, morning and afternoon, when the moving belt stopped, there was a birdsong of gossip and laughter, in which she joined. It appeared that all along there had been, deep in her temperament, a core of cheerfullness, which must have fuelled her long fight against A-bomb lassitude, something warmer and more vivifying than mere submission, than saying,"Shikataga-nai." The other women took to her; she was constantly doing them small favors. Thet began calling her, affectionately, Oba-san-roughly,"Auntie." (p96)
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