Characters
Jeanne's brother who acts as a father figure when she becomes disconnected from Papa.
Who is Woody?
I sat across the room from her for an hour trying to follow what was going on. It was all a mystery. I had never learned the language. And this woman was so old, even her dialect was foreign to me.
What is a reflection?
This country brought America into war attacking Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What is Japan?
A derogatory term for Japanese.
What are Japs?
Who is Jeanne Wakatsuki?
“I will fight well, Papa.”
“In this war? How is it possible?”
“I am an American citizen. America is at war.” “But look where they have put us!”
“The more of us who go into the army, the sooner the war will be over, the sooner you and Mama will be out of here.”
What is dialogue?
This country dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima ending the war in 1945.
What is the United States of America?
1st generation Japanese born in Japan but immigrated to the United States between 1890 and 1915.
Who is the Issei?
The minority group that was targeted because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Japanese American
Papa’s boat was called The Nereid—long, white, low-slung, with a foredeck wheel cabin. He had another smaller boat, called The Waka (a short version of our name).
What is a description?
This country was a part of the Axis power fighting alongside Japan in WW2.
What is Germany/Italy?
2nd generation Japanese Americans with Japanese ancestry, most of them born during or after WW2.
Who is Nisei?
The American military man who questions Papa at Fort Lincoln.
Who are the FBI/The Interrogator?
There everything changed. Our paths diverged. She was asked to join high school sororities. The question of whether or not I should be asked was never even raised. The boys I had crushes on would not ask me out. They would flirt with me in the hallways or meet me after school, but they would ask Radine to the dances, or someone like Radine, someone they could safely be seen with.
What are examples?
This country fought alongside America during WW2 forming the Allied Power.
What is the Soviet Union (Russia)/ Great Britain?
Absent of fairness
What is injustice?
Jeanne's sister who leaves the camp with her husband, Shig, to relocate to Reno, Nevada, but returns to the camp when Shig is drafted. She gives birth to a baby boy, which leads Mama and Papa to a reconciliation.
Who is Eleanor?
It was a bleak and awful-sounding word, yet I had no idea at all what shape it might take if ever I confronted it. I saw it as a dark, amorphous cloud that would descend from above and enclose us forever
What is a Metaphor/Simile?
During WW2, this document was issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorized the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The western seaboard of the United States from Washington to California.
What is the West Coast?