There is a very strong meaning behind this title. I think that Kiyoshi and Tosh feel trapped because of their parents' debt. Throughout this part of the book Tosh is rebelling his parents because he felt that he should not have to do the back breaking plantation work in order to pay his parents' debt, which wasn't being paid by what he was earning. Tosh was getting frustrated because he was only making barely enough money for him and his family to live off of, and was not making any money to pay off the debt.
I think that the meaning behind this title is that Kiyoshi and Tosh wanted to be freed from their parents' debt. All they wanted was their bodies. I think that this means that all they wanted was to be able to control their life. They wanted to be able to attend school and start a life of their own with a special person and start their own family. They did not want to have the burden of their family debt. At the end of the story Kiyoshi was able to pay off his parents' debt, which freed him and his other siblings to start their own life and start a family with some one.
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All I asking for Part II
I think that Kiyoshi felt that Obaban was his mother's substitute because when his mother was sick Obaban came to visit her. After her visit his mother got better, but then Obaban got sick and died. He felt that Obaban took his mother's sickness and died from it because his mother still had children that she had to take care of and Obaban did not and had lived a long healthy life.
The Japanese believed in a superstition called Bachi, which, according to Murayama, was a punishment that a person got when they did something bad and got away with it. The thing about bachi was that the punishment did not necessarily have to happen to the person that did the wrongdoing. It could fall on anyone in that person's family. Obaban had told Kiyoshi that his mother could be suffering from someone else's bachi, but if she found another substitute to take the bachi she would get better. That is why when Kiyoshi's mother got better after Obaban came to visit and then Obaban died he felt that she was his mother's substitute.
The Japanese believed in a superstition called Bachi, which, according to Murayama, was a punishment that a person got when they did something bad and got away with it. The thing about bachi was that the punishment did not necessarily have to happen to the person that did the wrongdoing. It could fall on anyone in that person's family. Obaban had told Kiyoshi that his mother could be suffering from someone else's bachi, but if she found another substitute to take the bachi she would get better. That is why when Kiyoshi's mother got better after Obaban came to visit and then Obaban died he felt that she was his mother's substitute.
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