Running, Running, Running, through the desolate woods not knowing where I am going or what I am going to find ahead of me. Voices of angry men penetrate my ears, they sound like a pact of hungry wolves on the kill never stopping until they have gotten what they wanted...fresh meat. Mother had alw...

To Live and To Write "A Woman Writer" The first story by Tamura Toshiko, "A Woman Writer" was incredibly upsetting. This intelligent, successful woman seems very unsatisfied and unhappy, though it would appear that she has everything that she could ever want. Looking deeper though, one se...

The relationship between the mother/daughter, in "Girl", and father/son, in "Reunion", are very different. In what way are they different? They are different because in the "Girl", the mother is teaching her daughter the right way to live, the way to act. She is teac...

The day to day struggles of life has caused many to go astray. Acceptance in society can make or break a person when they feel as if they have no one to turn to. Whether it is society continuously breaking ones character and telling them that they can not strive in life, everyone struggles to feel b...