Focus on NoNo Boy to write an essay that answers the following questions:

How are the ideas of cultural separatism and the melting pot developed in the novel?

How do different characters in the novel illustrate the stages of Banks’ model of ethnic identity?

What message do you think the novel sends about the attainability of the “American Dream?”

And how exactly does the novel define the American Dream ?

Reading – John Okada. NoNo Boy. University of Washington Press.