Baran/ESL 110D
MAIN CHARACTERS
Who are the people in the story?
The people in this story is Women and her 2 Children a boy 7 of years and a girl of 10 years, Yvonne from the Dionnequintuples, Joe Lundy from the hardware store and the husband that was in jail so far.
SETTING (Place and Time)
Where are they?
They are in Berkeley California in 1942.
When does the story takeplace?
The story takes place in Berkeley in the spring of 1942 right after a sing was posted on many places.
PLOBLEM
What is the problem in the story?
A sing was posted on many placesannouncing that the Japanese people was a enemy and they are going to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert in which the pets where not allowed.
PLOT(Action)
What happened in the beginning of the story?
A woman saw a sing at the post office announcing that the Japanese people was a enemy and they are going to be uprooted from their home and sentto a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert in which the pets where not allowed.
Right after that she started to go shopping for groceries and supplies and packing many things she also seem toclassify almost everything she packed at the same time she was bringing out many memories from all of her positions.
What happened in the middle of the story?
Her husband was in jail and he usedto write her letters every week and the envelope was stamped “Censored, War Department” or “Detained Alien Enemy Mail’. He was in the fort Sam Houston, Texas but before that he was at Fort Missoula,Montana.
The family had 3 pets, a cat, a bird and a white dog they were all good pets and very smarts too, specially the white dog that it used to do whatever the women said but since the sign saidno pets allowed she decided to get rid of the pets she had the gave the cat to the neighbors, kill the dog by her own hand before the kids came home after that she dig a hole on the back of her…
