In this short story I learned alot about feeling like an outsider. The girl in the story was very young and brave and reminded me alot of myslef. She was going through a time in the World War 2 where there were plenty of racial faces toward oriental people, she herself was oriental. She was moved all over America to different places. She had to go through a frightening experience with her own oriental people because she was raised in a caucasion community. The oriental kids at the new schools teased her and bullied her because she only spoke english. Her father often spoke of the orientals coming to take her away she she was scared.
When I was younger I went through a similar experience so I can understand how frightened, lonely, and scared she was. She had alot of family support so I believe what kept her strong was her family. The ending of the story never told us what happened to this girl but it showeed a state of relief for the troubled family during World War 2.
I believe the meaning of this story is focused on insiders and outsiders. I believe it wants some symphathy for the people who had to go through tragic situations due to wars. It has to do with racial problems and situations that help you determine your character. The story had alot of different settings but most were ghettos places where they had to live, not chosen. There was a part in the story where they mentioned American Friends Service which was a Quaker organization formed in 1917 to aid Victims of war. I think the author really wanted people to know what people had to go through the heart ache and the tragedies that most people will never know about.
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A little brief, but not bad.
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