CHIYOKO

Question 1

WESTERNIZATION

’ a boston..’

Answer 1

A boston bag.

Her boston bag is symbolic of the materialistic values of city dwellers, and she bases her self worth over superficial items like her expensive bag.

Question 2

WESTERNIZATION

‘Shows watched and

Answer 2

‘Shows watched and novels read in Tokyo’

• influenced her into thinking she was somewhat attrocious as she does not meet the ‘western’ beauty standards.

Question 3

WESTERNIZATION

‘She could not wait’

Answer 3

‘She could not wait to get back to Tokyo’

• Highlights the contrast between islanders and Chiyoko as islanders jave immense love for Uta-Jima

Question 4

INSECURE

‘She wore a

Answer 4

‘She wore a gloomy expression’

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her sadness and self imposed insecuarity. adjective

Question 5

INSECURE

‘the storm was’

Answer 5

‘the storm was a monotone of dullnes’

Parallels Chiyoko’s mood. Pathetic fallocy

Question 6

INSECURE
‘What she regarded ‘

Answer 6

’ What she regarded as ugly, however, was actually only the plaster-of-Paris mask of self preoccupied virginity.

highlights Chiyoko’s self- imposed doubts about her beauty and apperance

Question 7

HOPELESS ROMANTIC
‘someone who could look at her with eyes..’

Answer 7

Someone who could look at her with eyes saying ‘love you’ instead of ‘you love me’

Question 8

INSECURE

Hoped the dawn’s darkness

Answer 8

The personification of the darkness covering her face illustrates her self consciousness and vunerability

Question 9

HOPELESS ROMANTIC

‘Chiyoko’s face was full of life…“He

Answer 9

Her entire attitude and mood is based on the validation of Shinji.

Question 10

HOPELESS ROMANTIC

‘Shinji - am I so ugly? My face - is it so ugly?’

Answer 10

‘Shinji - am I so ugly? My face - is it so ugly?’
repitition highlights how she desires Shinji’s validation, she relies pn other to boost her self esteem