Missing In Action : By Dean Hughes by Samuel Buttram https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr Media Presentation en-us 2017-11-29 14:56:25 UTC 2026-01-18 17:28:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Relocation, Japanese-American. "Japanese-American Relocation - World War II - HISTORY.Com." HISTORY.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 29 Nov. 2017. 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/211432581 http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation]]> 2017-11-29 15:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/211432581 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/211434420 2017-11-29 15:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/211434420 Missing in Action 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212262846 Missing in Action by Dean Hughes is about a Navajo boy named Jay Thacker. Jay has recently moved from Salt Lake City to a small town called Delta, to live with his mom and his grandparents. While his dad is off fighting in the Navy during WW2.

Throughout the story Jay struggles with the fact that his dad, who was in the Navy is currently missing in action, and might be a POW, or even dead.

Later in the story, Jay meets a 17 year old named Ken, a Japanese American, who works at his grandpa's farm with him. At first, Jay hates him, just because he is Japanese and is the same race that his dad is fighting in the War. But, as the story progresses,  Jay begins to realize that Ken is just a regular guy, like everyone else.

Missing in Action deals with War, and Conflict spurred from the war. It deals with soldiers being missing in action, and also the stereotypes people make during  War about others.]]> 2017-12-01 14:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212262846 Why Jay Thacker 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212278449 Jay Thacker is a 12 year old , Navajo boy, during WW2. He struggles with the idea that his father might be dead, because he was missing in action and they haven't heard anything about him, yet. He also deals with people looking at him differently and calling him names because he is Indian.]]> 2017-12-01 14:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212278449 Jay Thacker Before 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212278851 In the beginning Jay still firmly believes that his father is alive and won't let anyone tell him otherwise.
 "'My dad's not dead, though,'" he said, louder than he meant to say it. "' He's a good swimmer. He probably made it to an island or something like that. Or he could've been picked up by the Japs and made into a prisoner of war" Dean Hughes Page 7.
 In this quote Jay explains to his new friend ,Gordy , that his father is still alive. 
]]> 2017-12-01 14:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212278851 Jay Thacker During 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212278977 During the story Jay deals many things and it leads to him emotionally breaking down and beginning to realize that there is a chance his father might not be alive.
 "He's not dead, but if you don't pray and have faith, he will be.' She turned back to him, and now her eyelashes were wet. 'Honey, listen. We have to be honest with ourselves. His ship went down. No survivors were found. And now a lot of time has passed. We have to accept things the way they are'" Dean Hughes Page 138.
 In this quote, Jay hears for the first time, what his mom really thinks about the status of his father. And Jay is suddenly opened up to the possibility that his father is dead.
]]> 2017-12-01 14:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212278977 Jay Thacker After/ Change 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212279047 In the story Jay finally comes to the realization that his father is dead, when he is sitting in the Star Cafe, down in a town called Milford, after he had run away from home . Jay talks to this women named Myrna and he says,
  "'My dad's in the service.' 'Where?' He was chewing another bite of his hamburger. He thought he would tell her that his dad was a prisoner of war, and maybe that he was a hero. But he didn't want to do that anymore . 'He died,'  he said instead. 'His ship got sunk'" Dean Hughes Page 180.
 Jay right then and there, comes to the fact that his father is truly dead, and he doesn't say he is a hero or a POW any more.This shows the change that Jay goes through, throughout the book as in the beginning he still has hope, during the middle he starts to realize there is a chance he is dead but he still has hope, and in the end, Jay came to the realization that he is dead and he can't make up ways around that anymore.
]]> 2017-12-01 14:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212279047 Relation to the Real World 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212279700 Jay Thacker in Missing in Action relates to the real world, because all around the world there are children with fathers in the military and some of those father may not make it out alive, and those children will have to deal with that someday. They are going to have to go through the same things that Jay had to go through to finally believe their father isn't alive anymore. They will struggle just like Jay did and they will have break downs just like Jay did. Jay is shown as only one of the many cases of family having military personnel die while in combat, and he definitely isn't the only case of this.]]> 2017-12-01 14:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/212279700 Action, and Dean Hughes. "Missing In Action." Goodreads.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Dec. 2017. 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/213285821 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6684837-missing-in-action]]> 2017-12-05 14:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/213285821 "Real Ww2 - Google Search." Google.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 13 Dec. 2017. 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215650514 https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CADEAC_enUS706US709&biw=1229&bih=580&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FgwoWrv0MYGijwTzj5vIDQ&q=real+ww2+&oq=real+ww2+&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.21846.22205.0.22675.3.3.0.0.0.0.83.215.3.3.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.3.207...0i8i30k1j0i24k1.0.64r1e9K6vr4&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=O22Zv_-h-eKlkM:]]> 2017-12-13 00:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215650514 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215655571 2017-12-13 01:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215655571 "Asian American Internment Camps Wwii - Google Search." Google.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 13 Dec. 2017. 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215655610 https://www.google.com/search?q=asian+american+internment+camps+wwii&rlz=1CADEAC_enUS706US709&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHmPOq7IXYAhXIRN8KHa13A_YQ_AUICigB&biw=1229&bih=580&dpr=1.25&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=mILOWsR1mDQLmM:]]> 2017-12-13 01:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215655610 Japanese - American Internment Camps 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215656601 The Internment Camps that held Japanese Americans during WW2 shows the problem of discrimination based off the color of someone's skin. During WW2 these innocent people were placed in camps and treated poorly just because of stereotypes set about them. 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these cramped internment camps for doing nothing directly themselves.]]> 2017-12-13 01:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215656601 Discrimination 20buttrams https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215658803 There aren't many ways of fixing discrimination and stereotypes of people completely, but there are a select few ways we can spread awareness about this problem and make it less of a problem. Some things we can do to get the word out is share it on social media, which is already happening, but the more the merrier. Also we can start with ourselves, by not judging people by what they look like, and getting to know them first. ]]> 2017-12-13 02:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/20buttrams/b3v2wv2pewvr/wish/215658803