After World War II, Japan was in a state of flux as it attempted to embrace the Westernization of its country. Yukio Mishima was a person completely against this change. Yukio Mishima regularly represented his views through writing and in A Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, as we see the character Noboru vehemently disagree with the Westernization of Japan. Over the course of the novel, readers discovered that Yukio Mishima and Noboru may share many similarities, which would explain why Mishima portrays Noboru's opinions and curiosities in such detail. Readers also see that nearly every character in the novel experiences some sort of isolation. Westernization is also described as a revolutionary thing in Japan, but Mishima uses the gang of children to show that he is completely against this idea. Long before Yukio Mishima wrote this book, he was isolated from his friends and family where he was sent to live with them. his grandmother. Later in his life, Mishima's father brought him back to be raised by him and Mishima's mother. Mishima portrays his loneliness and curiosity through Noboru, who is locked in his room every night by his mother, only to then spy on her. As I said, Yukio Mishima was very against the Westernization of Japan after World War II and describes his hatred of Westernization through the children's gang, where they try to promote the "old" Japan, and Noboru is part of this band. Mishima also uses Ryuji and Fusako to symbolize people who support Westernization. Another similarity between Mishima and the character is that they both suffered from isolation, especially when Mishima was younger. Mishima's father was very against writing Mishima stories. Despite Mishima's disapproval in...... middle of paper ...... the most Westernized countries in the world. Overall, we see that Mishima and Noboru share many different similarities and without knowledge of Mishima's past, it will be very difficult to correlate between the two. Mishima also portrays his isolation and exclusion through many different characters in the novel, each of whom suffers different types of isolation through their own means. In the novel we see that each of the characters is divided into two groups, the group that supports Westernization and the group that does not. Mishima uses the gang of children as a metaphor for the Japanese people who are against Westernization, and in the novel we see that particular group being silenced. This represents the "old" Japan that almost ceased to exist due to the lack of people supporting it, so it went from a very powerful policy to a silenced policy, in Mishima's eyes.