The short story entitled Oh.. Oh.. Oh.. written by Idrus in Indonesia wherein he based it on the situation during his time. He cited there how Japanese dominates the said country. For me the story was interesting because the title itself can be expressed in many ways so as a reader you'll be curious of what's the content of the story.
The author entitled his story as Oh.. Oh.. Oh.. because it was the expression used by several man in the train when it stop at a tiny station. The story is a mind opener in the way that it tells us how cruel the Japanese during that time. The Indonesian people, themselves can't fight even though they were in their own country. It was really unfair for them because if you don't have the authority from the Japanese, you can't get easily what you need. But if you have a pass from the people who governed the said country it will be an effortless for you to get what you need as in the part of the story wherein a Chinese who didn't lined up because according to him he has a pass from the Japanese, so the ticketing window opened for him.
It is also a wake up call for us to be aware that corruption is everywhere, even that time corruption was present in the said country and we can't deny that corruption is also present in our country and we're hoping that the government will take a step to solve that problem. As a reader, I felt pity for the woman in the story because the keibodans or the occupation auxiliary police didn't even think that the woman work hard to buy the rice and there's no money left for her to buy another sack of it. It just shows how cruel the Japanese are that time.
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