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Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: The Tattoo Responses. For her Claudia dating a college drop out and becoming pregnant was not what she had in mind. The story line is twisted in such a way as to expose the sociological factors influencing the behaviors of the characters. Chris McKinney’s novel sheds light on the challenges of many Korean and Vietnamese women in Hawaii who are subjected to forced prostitution. It also draws a parallel of mama san a Korean woman whose past was also shaped by forced prostitution decided to engage in a similar vice. Mama San’s history can be traced to the article, “The politics of an Apology: Japan and Resolving the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue” Both the novel Tattoo and the article elucidated on the various issues that shape the character, values and behaviors of individuals in the current society. Generally the behavior patterns and moral values of individuals in the story were affected by their historical social events and this affected their individual relationships with other people. The article, “The politics of an Apology: Japan and Resolving the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue” tells of the World War II and how many women especially Koreans were force to become ‘comfort women’ for the Japanese soldiers wanted compensation and an official apology from the Japanese government. Mama san’s mother was also one of the women who were forced in prostitution during that time and probably mama san could have been a product of such illicit affairs. Mama san was also subjected to prostitution but in her case to American soldiers and her daughter Claudia was a product of her life in a brothel by the thirty-eight parallel. Like her mother years before she did what she had to do, she was a also a slave (The Tatoo,p129) In a paradoxical twist mama san ends up practicing the same vice the Japanese subjected her and her mother to but now in a different setting forcing mainly Korean immigrants into prostitution. Her illegal business involves offering the women to prostitution to US military personnel and other desperate men, giving loans and charging exorbitant interest rates. Her lifestyle and moral values go just to prove that history can influence future generation to the affected individuals. The attitude of mama san towards men which was greatly influenced by her personal experiences is also brought to light by how she treats Ken after he impregnates her daughter Claudia. She believes that men use women for their own leisure and dump them after they are true. The fact that many immigrants felt comfortable working for her was mainly because they felt that they share some common experiences and beliefs something which mama san took advantage to exploit them. The immigrants having been raised in similar backgrounds they somehow showed some similar characteristic behavior patterns. Many who have been affected by many social political events such as past injustices, war, personal suffering usually end up having affected individual relationships later on like mama san. Mama san values money more than anything else, she has adapted to the American culture that values capitalism. Her own Korean culture values honor and respect of the family name that the reason why many of the women depicted in the article, “The politics of an Apology: Japan and Resolving the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue” kept silent for many years as they were ashamed and stigmatized by the events that were perpetrated on them.