![]() ![]() ![]() Tomorrow I will climb it and see what his eyes used to see. She says there is still a hill outside of town that Papa used to climb. In fact, their stories are arguably the best parts in the whole book. This is why Jeanne gives her Papa and Woody whole chapters that get told from their perspectives ("Fort Lincoln: An Interview" for Papa "Ka-ke, Near Hiroshima: April 1946" for Woody). We also get a really deep look into how internment affected Japanese-American men. Jeanne's the girl at the back of your class who never speaks but sees everything, and that's kind of what she does for most of the book: she observes other people.īecause of her observations, we get to meet all sorts of other characters in camp, like the half-black, half-Japanese woman who is married to "a Japanese man" and passes as Japanese so she can be with him and their adopted Japanese daughter (15). ![]()
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