Literary illuminator Response #5

       Page #: 181
Simile: Hurtling out and down, like a Canada goose shot from the sky.

       Page #: 182
Simile: I felt it, too, like a chill from lingering too long at a drafty window.

       Page #: 185
Simile: He'd crossed the space between us and scooped me up as if I were a little kid.

       Page #: 192
Simile: I wrote of Mom's eyes melting like wax.

      Page #: 194
Simile: Tears fell like rain.

      Page #: 200
Simile: Him in the middle of some terrible battle where men on both sides fell like ripening cherries in a hail storm.

      Page #: 218
Simile: The words flooded out, but they hit like separate waves: crashing, crashing, crashing.

Literary Historian Response #3

In any of the internment camps anyone seventeen and older had to complete a questionnaire it was not that bad except for questions 27 and 28. Question 27 was, are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty, wherever ordered? And question 28 was Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any and all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance to the Japanese Emperor or any other foreign government, power, or organization. Some of the people who were in Tule Lake and answered Yes-Yes were put into different internment camps, that was because Tule Lake became a high security camp were they put the people who answered No-No.

Character Response #3 5/16-5/23

Grandmother: is very rebellious against the government. She would to do everything opposite of what the government tells her to do.

Mike & his father: are trying to protect the main character. His father is trying to protect him by writing letters and telling him what to do. Where as Mike is physically protecting him in fights and going to war.

The main character Joe: feels very confined in the camp and doesn't like it. Now that his grandmother rebelled by answering the test wrong, they will have to stay at the camp even longer.

#3

       In this weeks section, Joe is still in the concentration camp and there is talk about the war. He and his brother start and finish school and have their birthday at the beginning of the new school year. Joe meets some of his friends from back home like Mae and Phillip. His brother, Mike, is told at school one day that he can join the Nesei army with parent permission because he is seventeen. Later on throughout the camp, everyone learns that if you are 17 or older, you have to answer a questionnaire about your loyalty to Japan and America. Joe's grandma answers "no" to a question asking if she is loyal to Japan or America. Her explanation is that she is not a citizen to America but she doesn't want to go back to Japan, she says she would rather have a country to go back to than no country at all. Joe's mom and Mike both answer "yes" and are concerned about what might happen to their grandma. After the questionnaire, Phillip isn't allowed to talk to Joe because Phillip's are making him speak only Japanese. The other people at other camps who answered "no" to the same question were moved to Joe's camp. They are referred to as the No-Nos and are causing lots of trouble throughout the camp. Mike ends up going of to the army and his family isn't very happy about it. It section ends with Mike and Joe having a birthday, followed by Mike leaving for the army.
Business and Products:
Coke pg. 116
San Francisco Chronicle pg. 127
Newell Star pg. 127, pg. 143
Life Magazine pg. 127
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea pg. 129
Tom Sawyer pg. 130
FBI pg. 153
Baby Ruth pg. 167
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn pg. 169
Red Badge of Courage pg. 169

Literary illuminator Response #4

   Page #: 135
Simile: "I could go through them like a slick fish. I could sink baskets like a machine."
  
    Page#: 141
Simile:  The days seemed the same, like the Canada geese that swarmed over the flat country around us.

    Page #: 143
Simile: But January soon brought excitement , rolling across Tule Lake like a Tsunami.

    Page #: 143
Simile: Opinions blossomed like flowers, or weeds.

   Page #: 145
Simile: "Government, they treat our children like dogs yet want them to fight like men."

   Page #: 147
Simile: "Rumors have spread like the plague."

   Page #: 158
Simile: "The Signal Corps will be after you like a trophy catfish"

   Page #: 159
Simile: Traffic in and out of the gate had been like a slow drip from a faucet.

   Page #: 149
Word: Espionage
Definition: The act or action, the practice of spying.

Page #: 151
Word: Repatriation
Definition: To send or bring back a person, (most likely a prisoner of war or refugee)  to his or her country or land of citizenship.

Literary Historian Response #2

Joe and his family had to move to a Japanese internment camp.

first they went to Camp Pinedale a temporary internment camp in Fresno California. The assembly center was located six miles north of downtown Fresno on vacant land near an existing mill-workers housing area. The area is now within the Fresno city limits, north of Herndon Avenue.
After that they moved to Tule Lake, a war relocation center, this internment camp had the highest level of security of any of the camps.

Character Response #2 5/9-5/16

I think Sandy the guard is going to turn into a well-rounded character, but most likely is going to be an enemy in the story. But for now he is going to be friends with the main character.

Mae is a basic character right now, but will develop into a close friend of the main character and spend a lot of time with him and his family.