A Diamond In The Desert by Conner Wilson

First photo that relates to the setting

cw096 — 2024-02-06 19:41:03 UTC

I put this picture in here because this is a homemade baseball field and in the book they are in the Arizona Desert and they decide to make a field where they can play on.

Second photo that relates to the setting

cw096 — 2024-02-12 19:17:20 UTC

This connects to the setting because after the bombing of pearl harbor the Japanese Americans were sent to a camp that was basically like prision in the Arizona Desert. They were sent there because they thought that they could be threats.

Third photo that relates to the setting

cw096 — 2024-02-12 19:20:19 UTC

This photo relates to the setting because the camp that the Tetsu, his mother, and his sister were sent to was in the Arizona Desert.

Fourth Photo that relates to the setting

cw096 — 2024-02-12 19:24:42 UTC

This picture connects to the setting because Tetsu played on a little league baseball team on a homemade field at the camp like these kids play on a baseball team.

Fifth Photo that relates to the setting

cw096 — 2024-02-13 19:02:17 UTC

This photo connects to the setting because the camp that they are at in the Arizona Desert is by Gila River, and this is a picture of Gila River.

First Important Quote

cw096 — 2024-02-13 19:08:59 UTC

"Don't think there's baseball where I'm going."

This is important to the story because Tetsu is leaving his baseball team and where he lived to go to a camp he was forced to go to in Arizona, and he is sad that he is leaving baseball, but he will be happily surprised later in the story.

pg. 13

Second Important Quote

cw096 — 2024-02-13 19:18:13 UTC

I let it drift into the night air, and say my good-byes to Gila River

This is important to the text because Tetsu and his family finally get to go back to California and leave Gila River at the end of the story.

pg. 250

Letter to the author

cw096 — 2024-02-13 19:23:24 UTC

Dear Kathryn Fitzmaurice,

I really enjoyed reading your book A Diomand In the Desert. It was a great novel and it was not hard to read at all even though it was a decently long book. I like how you made the book in the perspective of Tetsu so people can relate to the main character. You really made this book interesting and it made me want to read it more. I like how even though Tetsu was put in a hard situation he still had a good time at the internment camp. So overall I really enjoyed this book and I loved the message.

Rating out of five stars

cw096 — 2024-02-14 00:44:34 UTC

I would give this book a rating of five out of five stars. I give it this rating because I found it easy to connect to the character, and it put it in his perspective. I also liked this book because it also told us some history and it just didn't make up a story. So overall I loved this book.

Theme Paragraph

cw096 — 2024-02-14 00:50:43 UTC

I think that the theme of this book is that you should make the best of your situations. In this book Tetsu was put in a very tough situation of leaving his father and his dog to go to a internment camp in Arizona with his mom and his younger sister. At the camp Tetsu didn't just sit around and cry all day because he had to leave his whole life behind to go to the camp. Instead Tetsu went out and made friends that were boys his age. He even joined a baseball team of boys his age and had a really fun time because he loved playing baseball and he didn't think that they would have baseball at the camp. At the end of the book he was even sad to go back home to California. This is why the theme of this book is to make the best of your situations.

First Gif

cw096 — 2024-02-14 00:58:39 UTC

This relates to the story because at the end of the story Tetsu has to go back to California, and he is sad that he has to leave the camp.

Second Gif

cw096 — 2024-02-14 01:01:47 UTC

This connects to the story because Tetsu joins a baseball team at the camp because he loved baseball.

Third Gif

cw096 — 2024-02-14 01:05:46 UTC

This connects to the story because at the beginning of the story Tetsu was so sad and mad about going to the camp, which is relatable but he actually ended up having a good time at the camp.