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Kenzaburo Oe - Ambassador of Japanese Culture

Oe's first born child was born with a massive growth on his head. Doctors had to explain to Oe that they had to perform surgery to remove the growth or his son would die. However if they did the child would have permanent brain damage. Oe was distraught by the this news and took a break from writing to make his decision. He traveled to Hiroshima to visit the victims of the atomic bomb. This visit gave him the knowledge to return to his home and let the doctors perform the surgery on his son Hikari (par. 29).
             Kenzaburo Oe was influenced by many people during his life. When he was young his grandmother told him the legends of the Japanese culture. During WWII his mother had to raise him by herself so she gave him a lot of literary classics such as "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." After he got out of secondary school he went to college and was influenced by many of his professors specifically his French Literature professor. Another main influence was his idol Jean-Paul Sartre who he wrote his thesis on. He eventually got to interview Jean-Paul Sartre in 1963 when he was travelling in Europe. One of Oe's most famous novels, his first novel, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was very impactful to many people not just the Japanese. The book described what life was like during WWII for most of the Japanese citizens, they were forced to do something by a superior and had no other choice. This allowed many people to have sympathy for common civilian letting them realize that everything the Japanese military did in WWII was not the average person's fault. The story begins with a group of juvenile delinquents and talks about how they are essentially disowned because of their behavior. The boys are soon abandoned by their superior officer, when a plague like sickness is discovered to be going around the town. The book describes how the young boys were brought up and the Japanese hierarchy of power.


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