childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during

World War II. The book takes a look on how the Japanese

culture was treated in this time. At a young age Monica

realizes she is not like most little girls in America.

Japanese were put in interment camps in 1942. But this

isn’t the first time Monica notices a difference. She was

small and in grammar school when the first signs began to

appear. She knew she looked different, but she also sounded

different at home. At home her family spoke in Japanese.

Monica was known to her parents as Kazuko Monica Itoi. And

after Kazuko was finished with her day at grammar school,

she and the rest of the Japanese boys and girls went to

Japanese school to learn the native language and etiquette.

During a point in Kazuko’s childhood, her father is set

up by two corrupt police men accusing for father of selling

illegal sake. During dinner a police man interrupted the

family and told Mr. Itoi that he was the one that was

selling liquor to a bum on the street. The police had been

tipped by the bum that a Japanese man, who owned a hotel

sold him the alcohol. Kazuko’s father did ow

calling her the Japanese consul’s wife. And, Kazuko’s

family cold not rent out a cabin because they were Japanese.

stopped by a woman and asked her to judge a drawing contest.

and mother while rummaging haphazardly through the Itoi’s

Saturday morning. One Saturday mothers were invited to join

“Er…you’re the Japanese consul’s wife, aren’t you?”(56).

they are discriminated while house-hunting. Kazuko’s

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