... same time are parallel characters. Both experienced being in World War 2, loved a woman, Hatsue Imada, and can't forget past memories. Kabuo Miyamoto meets Hatsue Imada, in a Japanese internment camp when World War 2 begins. Kabuo finds himself in love with Hatsue and goes to where she is staying as many times and as long as he can ... and, "gaze at her while she was shaking her hair." Hatsue finds that Kabuo would make the ... that she had a relationship with a man, by the name of Ishmael Chambers. Since the war started Ishmael Chambers, a white man, had to see Hatsue, his secret child...

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... wrong. Ishmael lived on the island of San Piedro. His childhood was always filled with adventure and excitement, and a very special friend. Her name was Hatsue Imada, and she would often go with Ishmael to the beach, to dig up clams or go swimming. As early as the age of ten Ishmael knew that ... "(Pg. 100). After a while, they started meeting inside a hollow cedar tree, and continued to do this for 4 more years. When they became high school seniors, Hatsue told Ishmael about how she had been told to "marry a boy of her own kind, a Japanese boy from a good family"(Pg. 175) when she was on...

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