The three short stories by Erika Kobayashi all are similar in how they explore character stories with the narrator of each being connected of the person and tell of their life stories discussed in the writing so it shows a very unique point of view and way of thinking. Coco's Century is told from the point of view of the granddaught through adoption of Coco who is telling the life story of her grandmother to her very own child on the day in which she would have turned 100 years old. In His Last Bow the narrator is a father to his newborn sun and is holding him reflecting on past generations of men in his family and their histories and backstories exploring their professions and lifes motivations. The third short story Sunrise covers the life story of a woman from birth until the birth of her granddaughter and covers her life and observations as short snapshots growing up.
Abandoning a Cat is about the narrator and her relationship with her father as well as his life growing up. It covers a lot on how their father had a very different upbringing then them and his life in the miltary during World War 2 as well as his backround in religion and literature showing the stark contrast between the two aspects of his life and the turmoil that might entail.
Ueno Station is about a character in an economic recession in Japan and his time spent in the Ueno park which has a large number of homeless and times before the situation got that finacially bad. It details his life growing up as well as his life with his family as an adult and the various jobs and life experiences he had.
Love Isn't Easy When You're the National Anthem was the most estoric of the peices covered this week and was told from the point of view of a nonhuman, the country of japan's national anthem. It was written as a love story of how it was interested and fascinated by the person who refused to sing it and thought that they as a person were unique for it.
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