Different colors make the world becomes charming. So does in the field of literary. It also needs something to decorate. This can be illustrated by Yoshiko Uchida’s “Picture Bride”，which talks about Hana, who is a picture bride from Japan and her hunsband Taro’s life in America. One of the most important themes in this book is reality does not always match people’s expectations. Uchida uses literary and rhetorics techniques such as imagery, perspective and tone to help develop the theme.
Uchida develops the theme through the use of imagery. Even though Hana is going to America to marry Taro, she still has no idea about how he look likes, and what his personalities are. When she is on the way to America, she is thinking about how the flat, where she will live with Taro looks like. On page 10, the narrator says, “Hana wondered about the flat above the shop. Perhaps it…show more content… When Mary leaves Hana and Taro suddenly, and only leaves a note for them, both of them feel very disappointed because she leaves them to marry Joe who is a white and cannot speak Janpanes. On page 175, the narrator says, “Hana felt numb.”... “Oh, Mary how could you do such a thing to us? Hana murmured.”... “Hana could not find any word to console him, and when she spoke, she found herslf spilling out the bitterness inside her” Uchida uses “numb”, “murmured”, “console”, and “bitterness” in order to express she has a depressed altitude toward Mary’s leave. The tone of the text helps readers understand how disappointed Hana and Taro acturally are when they know Mary had left them. At first, Hana and Taro expected that Mary will become a doctor and stay with them. However, the reality is actually very unexpected for Hana and Taro because they could not believe that their daughter chose Joe who is a white and lefts them with only a note. Thus, the narrator uses the unexpected outcome which is Mary leaves Hana and Taro in order to show the unexpected
