er from the apparent awakening of Bull.
While the author portrays a world torn by racism and bigotry, he nevertheless concludes on a note of hope. This concluding glimmer of hope is preceded by a fight between Bull and Freddie, with Ichiro joining in, and the death of Freddie after the fight.
Bull would seem to be the most brutal and irredeemable of racists, expressing specifically anti-Japanese-American racism. But Bull is himself introduced to us as "a swarthy Japanese, dressed in a pale-blue suit . . . with a good-looking white girl" (Okada 73-74). Bull is a self-hating Japanese, a man who wants to be absorbed into the mainstream of white American society. He hates the "no-no boys"---young Japanese-Americans who refused induction into the army at a time when the United States was threatened. The self-hating Japanese is shown to be even more of a racist than the Japanese-hating white man, and that is perhaps the reason that Okada has Bull play the very i
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