Quiet and set back from the rest of the world. Naomi lives through analytical eyes. Naomi, is the type of person who just looks on and doesn't assert herself as a participant. Naomi seems to have grown up before her time. While other girls of her age were having tea parties with pink and white laced dolls, she was exposed to the brutal violence and gross sexual misconduct throughout her young life.
Due to the growing racism against the Nisei, Naomi and her family experienced the horrific trauma known to few other races. Though Japanese tradition was overshadowed by her brother and aunts frantic attempts to forget the barbaric memories of the past. Naomi has struggled to stand tall, she's strained to maintain a sense of her own self pride.
Even during her adult years as a teacher, she think back as to whether she could have made more for herself had things been different.
Obasan
Obasan
With her direct Japanese ancestry, her traditions stay prevalent in her actions. She is a very strong willed woman, who is frail physically, but powerful mentally. She is strict on herself, as to what she does that is possibly straying from her ways. Often that strictness is reflected on others in her family.
She is a women of few words, but those that are spoken are concise and to the point of the situation. One of the strongest character traits that is portrayed in the novel, is her need for memory. She saves everything, from pieces of string that had bound a parcel, to every scrap of paper. This seemed like her way of feeling secure that she will always have items to remember the people, places, etc. by, if she is unable to mentally.
