Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of Obasan by Joy Kogawa
What mood does the author's use of short sentences
create?
"Yasashi desho," Obasan says. She has often spoken
of my mother's "yasashi kokoro," her tender, kind, and
thoughtful heart. She places the picture in my hand,
"Here is the best letter. This is the best time. These are
the best memories." When would this be? I turn the
photo around to see if there is any identification on the
back, but there is none,
O confusion
Osadness
O sentimentality
Ourgency