Eassy 4-Rough Draft

                                                         My body, My freedom
    Debt is mostly every American problem now a days and it was a problem in the story “All I’m asking for is my Body” by Milton Murayama. In this story there is a Japanese family that is so much in debt that they just work to pay it off and they are very poor. This family is known as the Oyama family, they have to main children that contribute to help with the debt and they are Toshio and Kiyoshi. They were very young and already had so much debt that wasn’t even theirs. No child should be responsible for their parent’s debt and they shouldn’t be made to pay it off or even help at all.
    The parents have work so hard to put food on the table but they have put them selves in so much debt. The mother of the family has worked so hard as a sewer, she makes kimonos and sells them as for the father he is fisherman. The mother is very superstitions and she believes that all the family debts should be paid of by the end or the year. So for this to happen they both work very hard everyday and not by any new clothes or anything they will not need, they don’t even go to the dentist. To me this is very bad because even though you might be in so much debt you should take care of yourself and especially your children. Health is the number one thing anyone should be watching out for because if you don’t then how you are going to pay your debt back.
    This family helps each other in a way that I have never seen any family help each other. The father of the family used to work for his grandfather and gave him all his money to help him pay of his debt and know the Oyama want their old children which are Toshio and Kiyoshi to work and give all their money to them to help pay off their debt’s. I believe this is very wrong, it seems like they are using their children as slaves and they shouldn’t be doing that at all. It’s weird how some families can be very naive and not no any better for their children, just because they did that, work for their parents don’t mean they need to continue the legacy.
    Kiyoshi meet this one teacher that was trying to change how parents in that era would use their children as slaves. He tried to tell the children and educate them on how there are better opportunities out there in the world for them. Most of the parents didn’t like him because of what he was teaching their children, but he didn’t give up he knew he would be able to get to at least one child. Kiyoshi did take that advice and all he wants was to be the owner of his own body and not work so hard to pay his parents debt. He wanted freedom from his parents and he didn’t want to pay a debt that didn’t belong to him.
    No child should be responsible to pay a debt that their parents have earned. A child should be able to be free and make their own debts and not worry about anyone else.  I believe if you have a child you shouldn’t be using their child as a slave you should treat them with care and give them all you can and try your best to keep them healthy as possible. The economic stage of America has gotten worst and even back then everyone suffer from poverty. And it is very sad to say that now it is happening again.