The Women from Hiromi Goto's Novel 'Chorus of Mushrooms' and Their Canadian Experience

Essay from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1 (A), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistics), course: Canadian Experience and Identity in Canadian Literature, language: English, abstract: Throughout Hiromi Goto's novel Chorus of Mushrooms, different approaches to immigrant life in Canada are presented to the reader. While some people feel safer and happier assimilating to the Canadian culture and way of life by simultaneously giving up their own roots, others are unable to lead a normal life without an attachment to these roots. This essay will analyse three Japanese Canadian women from one family and their experiences in Canada. They are from different generations and each one of them has her own way of dealing with this topic, and each one of them has a different opinion concerning the question what it takes to set new roots in a new country and what it takes to be happy as an immigrant in a new country