The Teahouse of the August Moon
My plan for today was waking up early and drawing my school project whole day. So in the morning l woke up early and I sat in front of PC for drawing… Then I received an unexpected sms from a friend of mine telling that she had an extra ticket for a theater play so she was wondering if I could join her. Of course I accepted immediately although I had tons of things to draw. We met in the pier, we got on the boat and we were in front of the theater building in half an hour.
I had no idea about the play so I let it be a surprise for me :
Okinawa Island…It’s a weird country which was occupied by Chinese first, then Japanese and finally Americans that it owes its fame to this bloody occupation which ended with 200.000 dead in April 1945…
The writer of the novel “The Teahouse of the August Moon” is one of the officers of the occupation army. Vern Sneider…and John Patric ,who’s also one of the officers of the occupation army , made a great comedy from this book.
It’s about the occupation mentality of USA. As they always do, also in Okinawa they’re far from evaluating the human factor, they are just ordered to apply the decisions which was taken on a desk in Washington with general logic. As they think that what is valid for them is valid for everyone in the world, the people of the island is forced to be shaped with “american life style “ model.
The aim of this approach is to destroy the differences of the other cultures and making them similar to american one. So the army builds schools to give their own culture to the island people. But one humanist man who was taken to the army by force because of the war, refuses to build a school and he builds a teahouse
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