The firebreak symbolizes: Unity and connection btwn Mama and Papa (P. The Nash Sedan symbolizes: Flashy but flawed. (Keeping constant while everything else changes) 2) Explain the meaning of the following symbols for Papa and/or Maama: the Nash Sedan, the mountains, the firebreak The mountains symbolize: endurance. 1) The following lines belong to what? 'May thy peaceful reign last long./May it last for thousands of years.' It is what Papa sings in Japanese, the national anthem (P. 1) Why were people upset about the Loyalty Oath? Explain They were upset b/c their loyalty to their own country was being questioned (P. 1) Who are the Nisei? The Nisei are the 2nd generation, born in Americans (P. 1) What do Woody and Papa argue about in Chapter 11? They argue about the Loyalty Oath test (P. These low, and there were several people involved. Supposedly, someone stole sugar and meat. 1) What happens in December 1942 that is provoked by the beating of a man and subsequent arrest of a young cook? A riot occurs as a result. 1) What is an inu? Explain both and literal meanings 'Dog,' but it can also be referred to as 'informer.' (P. Jeanne is describing him as a person with many strong emotions (P. 1) Jeanne describes her father as looking 'kabuki.' What does this mean? In plays, a kabuki is a mask face that is white, red, black. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.(P. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Jim received a National Endowment for the Arts writing grant, a Library of Congress Story Award, and traveled to Asia lecturing for the U.S.I.S. His works include Snow Mountain Passage, Continental Drift, In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, and The Last Paradise, which received a 1999 American Book Award for fiction. Houston (1933-2009) was the author of several novels and nonfiction works exploring the history and cultures of the western United States and the Asia/Pacific region. Her works have earned numerous honors, including a United States-Japan Cultural Exchange Fellowship a Rockefeller Foundation residence at Bellagio, Italy and a 1984 Wonder Woman Award, given to women over forty who have made outstanding achievements in pursuit of truth and positive social change. Jeanne's widely anthologized essays and short stories were first collected in Beyond Manzanar: Views of Asian American Womanhood. For their teleplay for the NBC television drama based on Farewell to Manzanar, they received the prestigious Humanitas Prize.

She studied sociology and journalism at San Jose State University, where she met her husband and cowriter of her memoir Farewell to Manzanar, James D. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born in Inglewood, California, in 1934.

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