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Society shifted its views of Japanese people as enemies and stayed clear of them after the war. This was evident in when the family had returned from the internment camp, everything stayed the same including their neighbors but yet now every time they walk by these same people, they would pretend to not know who they are (p.115)

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The sister became more depressed during her time in the internment camp. Her methods of coping were eating meals with friends as being with her family cause her emotional pain. She also developed a habit of smoking cigarettes too (p.92).

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The boy went from being an innocent child full of questions to having to grow up very quickly and losing his innocence. This was because of his experience in the internment camp and he realized the toll it had taken on his mother and sister which he also started missing his father a lot and would cope by imagining what it would be like reuniting with his father (p.104-105).

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The father is a person who is very good at "surface acting". He would write letters to his family and describe how Lordsburg was a very beautiful place but when in reality he was being treated horribly there as he was prisoner at the time. We also confirm this as when he returns home in chapter 4, he is described as skinny and having low energy which was the complete opposite of what he was before being taken away (p.132).

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The mother is a very anxious person as evident in the book where every morning in the barracks she would always reach for her keys as she woke and every night she would always make sure to touch it one last time before going to sleep (p.78). As the mother seemed to be a person who was very good at taking care of things, the experiences she's gone through because of the war probably only increased her anxiety.

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The author switches perspectives from speaking in 3rd person the entire story to 1st person in these instances. We think this implies that they're speaking for a bigger group than just the family.

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The mother ignores the man next door that only nods slightly once in their direction (p.107).

“Fool…I was a fool” (p.110).

Birdsong grew faster, and shriller, and the chill slowly lifted from the air. Our mother rose early every morning and made us breakfast, then tied a white scarf over her head and hurried off to catch the next bus. She wore a shapeless black dress, sensible shoes, no lipstick. In a large brown shopping bag she carried an assortment of brushes and rags….she moved briskly and did not complain. “Be good,” she called out to us on her way out the door” (p.136).

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The doorknob dream…something always gets in the way and he cannot ever get to the door that leads to a picture of the Emperor- divine, a god (p.73).
He talks a lot about dust. One night, he writes his name on the dust across the table. Through the night, more dust blew through and his name was gone in the morning (p.64). More dust (p.77).

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While listening to The Green Hornet on the radio, it felt as if they had never been away at all: “Nothing’s changed, we said to ourselves….We would go back to school again. We would study hard, every day, to make up for lost time. We would seek out our old classmates….we would join their clubs, if they let us. We would listen to their music. We would dress just like they did. We would change our names to sound more like theirs. And if our mother called out to us on the street by our real names, we would turn away and pretend not to know her. We would never be mistaken for the enemy again!” (p.114).We looked at ourselves in the mirror and did not like what we saw: black hair, yellow skin, slanted eyes. The cruel face of the enemy (p.120).We kept to ourselves….we said yes and no and no problem. We said thank you. Go ahead, after you. Don’t mention it. Don’t worry about it….Everything was fine….excuse me” (p.122).
The rosebush was no longer there- only a clump of dead weeds (p.196). On the last page, the rosebushes are mentioned again. The children look around the neighborhood for their mother’s rosebush, but don’t find it, but still are hopeful that some stranger has their rosebushes (p. 138).

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On page 82-83, the mother tells her boy that she still imagines her old life is going on; that she still imagines that her husband is getting back home from work, and chides herself for not starting cooking since she still imagines that she controls her life. She then remembers (or is reminded by its absence) of an expensive earring she lost on the train.
The Mother still internally believes her old life is continuing, but chides and criticizes herself when this internal clock clashes with reality

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On page 78-79, the daughter begins to worry about puberty coming, and starts spreading gossip to her brother about "adult things" like a woman supposedly actually being a man and a girl sleeping with a guard. She also says that "all the real stuff happens at night", and generally self-consciously acts like how she imagines an adult would act. This is contrasted on page 79 with her finding the body of the tortoise her brother had been keeping, and immediately digging a hole to bury it in to perform a "resurrection".
She's about to become a teenager, but is still in the part of youth where she believes that fantastical things (like resurrection) still exists around her. The fact that she's doing this in a concentration camp means that it's expressed through observations about guards and inmates, and burying dead animals, and this highlights how different her circumstances are compared to other tweens, who would be gossiping and believing in fantasy in very different ways

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In page 97, the jumpy boy shows the effects of the camps and the psychological and physical effects. This further shows how the government just threw the families back into their "regular"lives after the war.

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On page 74, lines begin to be drawn between the Chinese and the Japanese in society. Chinese people advertise their ancestry to avoid being caught up in the racism, presumably because white Americans would make at least some distinction between Asians on the street based on who they're fighting. The irony here is that while people are carefully sorting out people whose families came from one of two places, both thousands of miles away, they aren't actually separating the people in the streets *from the people they're fighting* thousands of miles away.
Selective racism framed as being responsible

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On pages 61-62 (mostly 62) we get an extended description of the Father. He's a kindly man, which we already knew, and an impish one, which we didn't. He makes pseudo-dad jokes (his favorite thing about America is the jelly donut, drawing 3D boxes is his "forte"). This section gives the Dad a personality, which helps expand him as a character and move him away from just being a plot device for the others to react to

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On page 60, the boy is described as still being interested in baseball and outlaws, and as having a pet tortoise. The baseball and outlaws part reinforces something that is repeated a lot in these sections, which is that the family are just normal Americans. Baseball is as American as it gets, and boys being interested in outlaws was the stereotypical pre-adolescent fantasy. The tortoise is interesting, as it is a metaphor (or some such literary device) representing the family. The boy scratches the family identity number onto it, and keeps it sealed inside a box to prevent its escape.

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Mrs. Ueno (former housekeeper) helps the mother by grabbing the buckets from her hands. The son tells the mother to thank her tomorrow. She responds by claiming she does not where she lives and not even knowing what day it is. The son tells the mother that it is Tuesday. This shows how the mother has lost track of time management and may be starting to lose who she is.

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On page 96, the mother explains how at the night of the father's arrest, he asked her to bring him a cup of water. She felt tired and told him to get it himself. As a response he rolled over and went to sleep.

At this point we don't exacly know how the relationship between the mother and the father is. However, by that action, we can infer that the father is somewhat dominant over the mother. Even with the mother being tired, he decided to go to sleep instead of getting the cup of water himself, which could represent him feeling resentment or feeling nothing at all. (She later feels guilty about it).

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On page 70, we get to see the amount of rumors the people inside the internment camp have spread. First, that men and women would be put into different sections and it later escalates to the point of them thinking they would be sterilized. They also make rumors about the war and how they would be turned over to the Chinese for safekeeping right after the war.

Although they have radios, it’s hard for them to trust the American government as they see them as the enemy. The uncertainty of what’s going to happen next makes them create fake news. Those rumors could also be rooted from their fear of their future, since at that moment they don’t know how much the war will last or escalate.

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Despite everything that the father had gone through when he was imprisoned, he still took the time to care for his children. He looked happy when his children returned home. He would make them snacks and ask them if there were any news. Despite all the trauma that he had endured, he still tried to be there for his children, help around the house (in spite of his poor health) and showed that he cared for them, even if he wasn't the same as before (in that he didn't play with his kids anymore, sing around the house, etc) (p.154-155).

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The author talks about how a man was shot dead by a guard because he was too close to the fence. The man that was killed was hard of hearing and was just walking his dog. About 2000 people went to his funeral, which just showed the community that had grown within the camps that they were being held in. (p.121)

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Sometimes the boy wakes up crying because of nightmares. On page 57, we get to know his thoughts as he is not entirely sure why he is in the internment camp.

“Sometimes he worried he was there because he’d done something horribly, terribly wrong.”

He then proceeds to think of “bad” actions he has done in the past as he reflects on why he is being punished. In his innocence he is feeling guilty and lost. It’s even harder for him since the one that used to calm him through nightmares was his father.

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On page 54, we get to see the daughter writing letters to her friends "on the other side of the fence". She says that she is having a good time and that she wished they were there with her.

The daughter, as others, is still implying that she is on a vacation with her family. She is probably lying as a way of hiding how she actually feels and probably the shame of being on “that side of the fence”. She also thinks a lot about what the other people from the outside are doing; it could also be a way of coping as if she is having a “good time” in the internment camp.

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When the mother was carrying a bucket of water, she ran into her former housekeeper. The housekeeper insisted on carrying the bucket of water for her since “she can hurt her back again”.  The mother proceeds to tell her that she shouldn't since she doesn’t work for her anymore.She mentions that at the internment camp they're all equals. (Pg.56)

We can infer that the housekeeper has a lot of respect and loyalty towards the mother. She shows appreciation towards her, as if she had been a good boss. The mother responds humbly to her actions as she recognizes that at the internment camp there’s no hierarchy. As a whole we can tell they had a good relationship.

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When the girl reads her father's notes, it says how well the father is and then had censored script in the bottom. This shows how the father was simply trying to send a message to the girl but even that was censored. (p.42)

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When the sister says "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain", which is followed by "In my dreams" "I am the King". This shows that there is still some internal sexism shown in the community and how with all the racism there is still sexism. This puts the mother and the daughter in a level below the son and father in society.

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The brother is a very tentative person to what his sister has to say. This is shown when he listens to how his sister tells him about the salt lakes that used to exist in Utah. Later that night, he would dream about water and the ancient salt lakes that his sister talked about. This shows that he has a very active imagination, but that he also intently listens to his sister. They have a very close bond with one another. (p.78)

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When she came home late at night, her brother was awake and she started talking to him. She asked him about his day and after that she says that she can't remember what her looks like now. (pp. 86) This shows how she is very caring of her brother. She talks about how she is bothered that she can't remember the looks of her father. The separation of the Dad is leading to her forgetting things about him.

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The sister is very caring of her brother. Sometimes he would wake up in the middle of the night crying and clearly in distress because asking "where am I" after they were sent to the camps and the sister would just comfort him. She would tell him that it was a bad dream and soothe him back to sleep. She does a lot for her brother and is truly caring for him. (p.74)

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In page 120, the author talks about how the old friends who they would hang out with and how they no longer invite them to do stuff. The author also added how one of the teachers said that writing to the Japanese kids anything is working for the enemy. This shows how the community has changed and how the Japanese are treated very differently now.

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The mother removing any remnants of Japan from their home after her husband was taken away. Then she told her children to tell everyone that they were Chinese instead of Japanese. This was the mother's way of protecting whatever left of their livelihoods in America after the attack on Pearl Habour. She probably knew that after the attack on Pearl Harbour and seeing her husband be taken away, Japanese people would become subjected to a harder time with racism and hatred. (p.92-93)

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She looks in the mirror and sees eye bags. She doesn't believe it is real and she asks her son if its real (pp. 77-78) She can't maintain her skincare that she used to do. She is concerned about her looks and thinks that her husband is not going to remember her. She is aging and her stress is leading to eyebags and wrinkles.

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"A the top of the porch steps she reached into her blouse and pulled out the key... entire time we had been away."(p. 107) The mother carried the key everywhere shows the mother's attachment towards the home. Her anxiety to keep checking for her keys also shows how the camp led her to have anxiety about losing things in her life she loved.

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The daughter smoking cigarette and having friends. This shows an element of time that played into the slow violence of the internment camps. She is growing up in these camps, internalizing things through her development. I think the author is trying to illustrate how being a child in these camps will shape your consciousness for years to follow.

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the mother sometimes feeling like she doesn't know if she's awake or asleep. This is highlighting her coping and the disassociation that is affecting her as an adult. Further down the page she dreams of her home as a child, the only escaping of this harsh reality is through unconsciousness.

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The man being shot dead by the barbed wire fence in the internment camps. There was a clear difference in narratives from the gaurds and the people. This reminded me of certain elements of police brutality today, and highlighted how hypersurveillance becomes a racist tool to perpetuate systemic racism and marginalization when it carries a racist incentives (p.101)

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The boy saying/whispering the emperors name when he know he is not supposed to. Until now we see the boy reflecting explicit American interests. the explicit Americans of the boy is demonstrated by the author in a way that connotes assimilation. Here we see the boy saying unconscious words, perhaps reflecting disassociation.

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The father describe in his letter that lordsburg (the place where he was) is very nice. There are no trees here but the sunsets are beautiful and on clear days you can see the hills rising up in the distance. The food is fresh and substantial and my appetite is good. Please write and tell me what you are interested in these days. (pp. 72-73) The father is writing to his boy and telling him that he is living good but in reality he is not living that good. The father is comforting his boy and trying to be normal as he can.

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The mother's inability to recall whether she had a stove in her previous house and her confusion about whether she was awake or asleep illustrates the profound trauma caused by the internment. Her dwindling motivation and increasing disorientation reflect the psychological toll the internment has taken. These elements convey a powerful commentary on the dehumanizing effects of internment, spotlighting the erasure of individual identity and the mental strain experienced by those unjustly detained (p.50)

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The girl imagines flying kites in the park and being welcomed back by friends and neighbors. They dreamed of the warm sunny days and the freedom they would have. Their return, however, is still overshadowed by the darkness of the war (p.75)

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The dad demonstrates a careful understanding of his loved ones, knowing when to provide affection and when to grant them their personal space, as evident in his relationships with his wife and children. Concurrently, the father navigates his idealized American life with meticulous cognizance of the racial disparities that mark their existence. His awareness of which restaurants would serve them and which wouldn't, or which barbers would cut their hair the best, is a testament to his adaptation and negotiation of the family's place within a racially divided society. He once confided to the boys that the glazed jelly donut is the thing he loved most about America, symbolizing his deep desire to embrace and belong to this American dream, even as discriminatory practices persist. (p. 41)

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At the very beginning of the 3rd chapter, the boy thinks he sees his father everywhere in the camp. This is where the narrator plays on the racist stereotype that all Japanese people look the same, racially-insensitive terms to describe their looks "slanted eyes. High cheekbones. Thick glasses. Thin lips"

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When the boy is running around playing cops and robbers and war with his friends at the camp, they were yelling "Kill the Nazis! Kill the Japs." They unknowingly highlight the dual identity they possess - being of Japanese ancestry but identifying primarily as Americans. Unfortunately, they are being unjustly interned due to their heritage, underscoring the irony and dissonance of their situation.

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The boy could not sleep at nights he would wonder where he is, he would dream that when he woke up his father would be downstairs in the kitchen whistling “Begin the Beguine” through his teeth as he  fried up breakfast in the skillet. “Here it comes, champ,”  his father would say, “one hobo egg sandwich.” (pp.70-71) This shows how the affect of his father not being there and them living in camps. He is only 5 years old and the affect it has on his mind is terrible. He can't sleep and he has going through stress everyday.

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Mrs. Kato talked to herself day & night and she heard her mother calling for her in the distance and the voice got farther and farther. (pp.68-69) This shows her emotional health and her struggles. She misses her mother, connection & support. The separation has led to her mental health.

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"She reached into her blouse and pulled out the key to the front door, which she had worn, on a long silver chain, the entire time we had been away" (p.107)

The mother's care for this key reflects her responsibility and consideration for her family. Despite everything they've gone through, she still puts her family at the forefront of her priorities.

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"She ate all her meals with her friends. Never with the boy or his mother. She smoked cigarettes. He could smell them in her hair. One day he saw her standing in line at the mess hall in her Panama hat and she hardly seemed to recognize him at all." (p.92)

This shows how she is still wearing the same hat she always used to, but she doesn't want to associate with her own family because it causes her pain.

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"IN THE MORNING she had sent all of the boy's father's suits to the cleaners except for one, the blue prin-striped suit he had worn on his last Sunday at home. The blue suit was to remain on the hanger in the closet. "He asked me to leave it there, for you to remember him by." (p.90-91)

This quote shows that he remembers his father to a much less superficial level than described in this. It's followed by a list of things that he does remember his father by, and it's much more than a suit. Further exemplifies his great impact and influence on the family.

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His face was lined with wrinkles. His suit was faded and worn. His head was bare. He moved slowly, carefully, with the aid of a cane….he was somebody else” (p.132). More descriptions on this page about his movements and appearance.

He wore the same thing every day and became paranoid and did not trust anyone (p.134).

Small things would send him into a rage. He creates a scene at the bank (p.134).

He never went back to work and became withdrawn. “Maybe he was remembering the promise he’d made to her years before right after they’d first married--- You’ll never have to work” (p.136).

He refused to go on walks and went to bed at 7 (p.137).

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“The daffodils” the boy called out to her [Mrs. Kato] softly (p.55).

The brother tells the mother that she probably should have gotten three, not two eye cream and when she asks him if there are bags under her eyes, he says, “There’s bags”. But then also tells his mother that he’d remind the father of how she looked (p.63).
He tries to feed her…tell me what you want. DO you want rice? (p.94).

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"Their old life seemed far away and remote to him now, like a dream he could not quite remember. The bright green grass, the roses, the house on the wide street not far from the sea- that was another time, a different year."(p.92)

This exemplifies the great trauma he has gone through. He can't even recognize his old life anymore and it speaks to his character change throughout the story.

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"It was spring, and the earth was black and damp and full of worms." (p.95)

This highlights the darkness of the times. It highlights the terrible mood and atmosphere of the story at this time.

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In the chapter when the emperor was divine it mentions how she has ran out of her cream and notices the wrinkles on her face. This tells us a lot about her because it seems like she is a non practical person since she is more concerned about her image

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She has a strong identity of her self but start becoming obedient as she is going through the typical teenage phases where she starts building insecurities in one self but also start experimenting thing like smoking .

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In the last chapter of the book for the first time we hear from the father perspective. He speaks complacently with the people interrogating him, "confessing" to everything even though it is clear he did not do it. This reflects the mobility of a foreigner in America and his confession is rather a submission to understanding that he can not escape the racializations that had brought him there.

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He is very compassionate as throughout the novel we can see how he misses his father a lot since he writes to his father constantly. He is still a young boy so he is filled with curiosity, imagination and has a big heart.

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It seems like society is tryna be as positive as they can but they are also losing themselves as time passes. It seems like the author uses japanese- american assimilation as an example of losing their identity since the mother has to get rid of any reminder of where they cam from in order to protect themselves.

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It seems like the father is a caring person. Despite being taken away from his family he still manages to communicate with them by writing letters. He has done a lot for them as he was the man in the house and since hes not there it seems like the mother take over his role which is hard for everyone to cope as it shows how deep of a connection they have to him as well.