places
Where papa was born?
Japan
"I have been living in this country nine years longer than you have. Do you realize that? Yet I am prevented by law from becoming a citizen. I am prevented by law from owning land. I am now separated from my family without cause.."
Papa
“divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat.”
Barracks
What type of dancing did Jeanne do?
Ballet
Where did the Japanese Americans get sent to?
manzanar
"Well get this whole place as tight as a barrel, Mama, already met a guy who told me where they pile all the see lumber."
Woody
“We drove past a barbed-wire fence, through a gate, and into an open space where trunks and sacks and packages had been dumped from the baggage trucks that drove out ahead of us.”
Manzanar
What did papa sing?
Japanese anthem
What place got bombed that started the war?
Pearl Harbor
”what is pearl harbor?”
mama
“Inside, the floor was covered with excrement, and all twelve bows were erupting like a row of tiny volcanoes.”
Bathrooms
What was the nuns job?
To convert people to the catholic faith
Where did they lived before the war?
Ocean park
"All right!" he yelled. "All right, I will, will! I will!"
Papa
They wore white shoes, white hose, and white dresses. Above their bleached faces their foreheads had been shaved halfway over their scalp's curve to make a sharp widow's peak where starched black hair began to arch upward, reminding me of a cobra's hood. Their lips were gone. Their brows were plucked. They were always together, a pair of reptilian kabuki creatures
The nurses
What did the Japanese Americans need to do to prove they are loyal?
Sign the loyalty oath
What reminds papa of japan and gives him hope?
Mount Whitney
“I have to go”
Woody
“Their robes were black, their heads were hooded in white. Sister Mary Suzanne was about forty then, a frail, gentle woman from Japan who could speak no English. Sister Mary Bernadette was a feisty, robust little Canadian Japanese who spoke both languages fluently.”
The nuns
What block did the family move to for a nicer Barracks?
Block 28