Has anyone read the novel Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori?

Question

I recently read the novel Shizuko's Daughter and had wanted to know whether the main character, Yuki, is a dynamic character. A dynamic character is one whose personality traits are different by the end of the novel. I don't think that she is, but I would like another opinion. Thanks

Answer 1

Yuki does change, but only in a minor way. This is not an earth-shattering movement of personality because nothing in the novel would cause that. However, every character, perhaps because very author, changes to some degree. She is wiser and somehow understands others to a deeper degree.

Answer 2

interesting deinition!
Well, Yuki is a dynamic character.
Shizuko kills herself, escaping a soured marriage, leaving her husband free to marry his mistress of eight years, and having vague ideas about making her daughter's life better. Yuki, 12, now faces a bleak world with a stepmother who tries to eradicate all traces of her predecessor and curtail the girl's visits to her mother's family. Her father is distant, taciturn, and guilt ridden, providing neither the support Yuki needs nor the discipline the stepmother wants him to exercise over the girl. Most of all, Yuki must cope with the loss of her mother and piece together some meaning for her death and ultimately for her life. Through strength and independence, Yuki comes to grips with her mother's memory, deals with her own current plight, and makes plans for the future. Readers leave her in college after a painful and poignant maturing. Mori's beautiful and sensitive prose evokes a world of pungent memories and harsh realities. Communication between characters often reflects the vagueness of language favored by the Japanese, pointing up Yuki's bluntness with great skill. Despite moments of warmth and humor and sharp insights into human motivations, Shizuko's Daughter is more often bleak, sad, and sometimes grim. Graceful in style, a tad grizzly in plot, and rather adult in tone, it is nonetheless a worthwhile novel about a resilient young woman's coming of age.



good luck

Answer 3

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