The love between Ishmael and Hatsue

In the roman there are different faces of love between the American reporter Ishmael and Hatsue, a Japanese-american woman.

The first established relationship they had in school as they were kids. In this time they were good friends as far as Ishmael kissed Hatsue. In the first moment Hatsue was shocked, but she also had feelings to him. Although the Japanese culture forbade the contact between the American and the Japanese people, Hatsue and Ishmael met each other at the cedars, the secret place of them. That was also the place where they kissed the fist time. In the publicity, however, they act like exchanged people. They pretend like they didn’t know each other and that double life went on for a time.

In contrast to Ishmael Hatsue knew that their love couldn’t exist for longer time. Sooner or later Hatsue’s parents would discover the relationship and it would be a shame for the whole family. So Hatsue broke up and moved with her family to a camp for Japanese-american people due to the conflict between America and Japan.

After a while Hatsue got a new lover called Kabuo, but he wasn’t equal as Ishmael. They married and Hatsue wanted to forget Ishmael. On the contrary Ishmael developed hate against her and wrote letters with these feelings, but he never sent them away.

He had to go in the Second World War, lost an arm and became the reporter of San Piedro, where he saw Hatsue in a courtroom again. He stood in front of a great decision because he could exculpate Kabua, who was on trial for murder, with documents he found. For a long time he thought about him and probably a new chance with Hatsue. If he gave the important information to the jury they would reveal the truth, but if he kept them Kabuo would be arrested.

Finally he let his heart speak and decided to give the jury the documents, because he only wanted that Hatsue is happy.

test correction

Task 1

Dear Tobias

I saw a picture of Norman Rockwell last week, which socked me. It depicts the contrast between black and white people. On the left side there are two white men and behind them a little black girl. On the right side you can also see two men with white skin. At the top you can find the graffiti “Niggers” on the wall. You can’t see the heads of the men, but they wear a band around their arm, on which it says Demphy US Marshall. The men in front are dressed in a brown and a white suit like the men behind. In the centre the wall is dirty, because of a smashed tomato, which lies on the street.

I think the artist creates a quite extreme mood. He wants to show us that black people can never be like white people, although their character is the same. The artist is trying to convey that this conflict will affect the next generation and the next. He seems to believe that the conflict will never end. But I disagree. Our generation can solve this problem, but at the moment it doesn’t looks like this. The racists are getting more and the solidarity in our time isn’t important at all. We have to accept the people how they are: black or white, Christian or Muslim, fat or thin. Only the character of the people is important

Yours Alban

Task 2

For me pictures like this ore definitely no art. Maybe the contrast between the red shovel and the dress of the woman looks good, but you still can’t consider it art. Art must be a masterpiece which not everybody can create. Something like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Art has to be practised for a long time. You can’t make a simple brush stroke and call it art, but a well composed photo could be called art. With photos like this the museum in which it’s exhibited or the photographer only wants to provoke. Under no circumstances would I buy such a photo. The painter should be creative and shouldn’t produce rubbish like this photo.

To sum you can’t call simple pictures art, because the maker has to have skills to make masterpieces of art