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A review by rakoerose
Ichiro by Ryan Inzana
4.0
A beautifully illustrated and impactful story, one that I can see being used to illustrate the importance of learning true histories in classes.
“In the end, we are all just ants staring at the sun.”
Ichiro is a snarky, semi-unlikable preteen boy who is struggling to find his place between his American and Japanese heritage. He learns a lot over the course of this story! It shows how kids often will think one way until something comes up to challenge it and broadens their horizons.
I think narratives like this that point out flaws and hidden atrocities within our country’s (anyone’s home country’s) histories are important. All too often education systems choose to hide the things they view negatively from the past. And then to learn in depth you have to either seek it yourself, have someone tell it to you, or go further into education that is behind a paywall (i.e. colleges).
I really enjoyed this book’s view on how we have to be knowledgable in order to not repeat the past. That the actions of our past don’t define the present fully, but are things we must learn from.
“In the end, we are all just ants staring at the sun.”
Ichiro is a snarky, semi-unlikable preteen boy who is struggling to find his place between his American and Japanese heritage. He learns a lot over the course of this story! It shows how kids often will think one way until something comes up to challenge it and broadens their horizons.
I think narratives like this that point out flaws and hidden atrocities within our country’s (anyone’s home country’s) histories are important. All too often education systems choose to hide the things they view negatively from the past. And then to learn in depth you have to either seek it yourself, have someone tell it to you, or go further into education that is behind a paywall (i.e. colleges).
I really enjoyed this book’s view on how we have to be knowledgable in order to not repeat the past. That the actions of our past don’t define the present fully, but are things we must learn from.