The Price of Fame

The Price of Fame, tells the story of two marginalized immigrants that decide to steal  Charlie Chaplin’s coffin, after his death, in 1977. One man is an ex-convict , the other man who believes in friendship and have principles, doesn’t like his friend’s idea, but his precarious life, spouse’s situation and his daughter’s dreams pushed him to accept the job and ask for a ransom to the Chaplin’s family.

In my opinion, the film is a mix of tragedy and comedy, the death and laughter. The film shows the poverty of a social class in 1970's society and the ridiculous and desperate plan they think will solve all their problems. Although  the film is based in a true story, the film is a tribute to the life and work of the great filmmaker Charles Chaplin.

When the emperor was divine

When the Emperor Was Divine tells a story of one Japanese American family’s experience in internment camps during World War Two. The story is told through the eyes of each of the four member of the family. One important detail, is the characters are nameless, while there are a lot of characters with Americans names. This represents the differences in the society between Americans and American-Japanese people, where they even can’t use their own names, which means the loss of Japanese’s identities and their loss of rights. The principal characters symbolize any American-Japanese in the U.S in that moment.

I would like to recommend this book because it tells a part of the history of the U.S that is not well known for all. You can learn how they were treated and considered enemies aliens, only based in their origins. Throughout the reading, you can feel the sufferings and humiliations received by that family. The father's agonizing narration in the last pages of the book, touched me so much, because you can feel in your bones the torture suffered by him.  Without alternatives, he declared falsely to be a spy, because that was what the Americans wanted to hear. The father, his family -like other  thousands of families- will never be the same.