https://padlet.com/ethan_schuster/m5ioxs90k5vg Made with an open mind en-us 2017-11-03 19:44:18 UTC 2025-12-17 06:30:31 UTC hello@padlet.com ethan_schuster https://padlet.com/ethan_schuster/m5ioxs90k5vg/wish/203462686 Summary: As the boy and the girl are being shipped on the boat to the "desert", they start to feel trapped, yet this is one of there one times that they get a glimpse of what freedom could look like. 

Evidence Gathering and Analysis: 
The motif of freedom is visible when the boy is taking the ship to the desert "and dreamed he was riding an enormous white horse by the sea," can be seen as a dream of freedom from the boy. As seen before in the story, the horse is a reoccurring subject. It is a symbol of freedom to do what you please.

Synthesis:   As they boy rides the boat he starts to feel free at sea. Nobody can come in the way of him because he was one with the sea and can see as far as the naked eye can. There are no road blocks because when you are in the middle of the ocean nothing is there to stop you]]> 2017-11-03 19:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ethan_schuster/m5ioxs90k5vg/wish/203462686 ethan_schuster https://padlet.com/ethan_schuster/m5ioxs90k5vg/wish/203462806 Summary: The boy imagines the sight of something beautiful, and in this case it is a door. A door that held the beauty of a picture of an emperor that no one was allowed to see. They boy knew that is he was to open the door, this magnificent door, he could see god, see the light, see the emperor, but something always went wrong. He was always close to achieving this, but in this dream the door wouldn't work.

Evidence Gathering and Analysis: One could see the separation between reality versus a dream when the boy keeps repeating, "in a dream" and reality could set in for him when he realizes, "only something always went wrong," in his dream. That is the harsh reality of his life. He is stuck having to daydream of freedom and what it could feel like, but when it comes down to it the harsh truth of reality always sets in for him.

Synthesis: From the boy trying to open the door to see a god is a symbol of the boy trying to break through the racism and see freedom. The door not being able to open in his dream is the symbol of a road block in his life that is not allowing him to see freedom. ]]> 2017-11-03 19:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ethan_schuster/m5ioxs90k5vg/wish/203462806 ethan_schuster https://padlet.com/ethan_schuster/m5ioxs90k5vg/wish/203462838 Summary: The boy is imagining a life where it is close to a utopia. He imagines scenes where he lives happy with his family and has the right and freedom to do whatever he pleases. The boy really tries to imagine a life where he could always have his father by his side and nothing will ever separate him from whom he loves and his family. 

Evidence Gathering and Analysis: The boy is trying to imagine what it is like to live a life where everything just came to him, "he could come back on a horse. On a bike. In a train." The boy is trying to imagine a world where everyone has a life that fits to them and there are no rules or people that shoot them down. The boy wants to live a life where nothing leaves him and everything is perfect, "He'd bring his father a glass of water and they would sit down side by side on the cot," is a life where the boy can live to his full potential and feel happy all the time. 

Synthesis: The sad reality of imagining is that it will never come true. His aspirations will always be blocked out by racially discriminating and stereotyping. He keeps imagining this images where his dad will come in his room or where he could bring his father a glass of water and they could talk because his father was taken away from him due to sending his cultural to different camps because white America thinks of the japanese as harmful. The boy is stuck daydreaming and wanting to live a free life because he knows his life will stay the way it is and will never go back to the free world it was before. ]]> 2017-11-03 19:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ethan_schuster/m5ioxs90k5vg/wish/203462838