Offer your thoughts on one or more of these questions/comments. If you prefer add a comment or question on another element of these chapters.
Chapter 1
Chapter 1 described Tara Tokeda and Hana Chan in just a few pages, yet the foundation for a vivid understanding of their personality is already set. How did Uchido do that? Offer specific examples to support and clarify your thought. Perhaps select a conversation or a sentence and explain how that excerpt informs your understanding of the character(s).
Put yourself in Tara Tokeda or Hana Chan’s position? Imagine the feelings s/he experienced during the travel time and/or during their initial meeting. Would you be willing to get engaged in this way? What are the benefits of this type of engagement?
Chapter 2
What inferences can be drawn from the following line: “Discarding his given name, Hisakazu, because it was impossible for a white person to remember, he had taken the name Henry and was called that even by his Japanese friends.”
What predictions can be made from events in this chapter?
Chapter 3
This chapter introduces some potentially difficult aspects of moving to a new culture. Anyone who has moved from one culture to another can attest to various benefits and difficulties encountered when moving: What are a few benefits of living in new cultural situations? What are some difficulties that may occur?
In this chapter, Yamaka says, “ I don’t want to spend all my life being a foreigner in an alien land…” Do you agree with the implications of his statement? For example, is it truly impossible for a Canadian or American person of European descent living in Asia to ever stop being considered a foreigner in an alien land? Can you offer examples supporting your view?
Chapters 1-9 take place in 1917-1918. What do you know about world history from that time period? What are a few events or highlights of that time period? Who were a few significant world figures or leaders at that time? Share the url link to a website that provides interesting information from this time period.
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ReplyDeleteI am rereading the books. Let's hope twice is enough...
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This kind of marriage is horrible and stupid. For example, I survived ninth grade, reached tenth grade, and hit eleventh grade. The homee work were becoming harder and the pressure for college was getting bigger. An old friend of mind one day came to me ad said, "I heard in Amazon there's a highschool as good as TAS but with nearly no homework!Wanna come?" Why would I be dumb enough to travel all that way to Sounth Africa to go to school!? The only good reason would be the fact that there's no turing back, which is one of the negative reasons as well.
Chapter Two
That excerpt sentence clearly showed us the differences of social status between the Japanese and the Americans.
Chapter Three
There will always been a gap between foreigners and citizena. The shop keeper at a candy store may dislike Americans and will give less candy to kids from the US.
The only way to solve this is to swarm the place with your own people, that way the local people will become foreigners, and everything will be reversed.