Thursday, March 26, 2015

March 26, 2015 -- Thursday
平成二十七年三月二十六日 -- 木曜日


***Test on Friday -- Be sure to bring NAKAMA, just in case it's an open book test***



ウオーム・アップ 平成二十七年三月二十六日
日本語 で 書いて 下さい。それから 英語 で 書きます。
  まい日 魚 と ぶた は 食べて 飲みます。Every day the fish and pig eat and drink.
  あした 私 は はいく を 勉強 して 写真 を とります。Tomorrow I will study haiku and take photos.

  りょうり の 本 が すき です が りょうり する の が きらい です。 I like cookbooks but I hate to cook.




Handout on narrative from today's portion ーー


Come See the Paradise 2015.03.26


     Jack, Charlie, and Lily go to a Chinese restaurant for lunch.  Charlie has to go back to lock up the theater, so Jack and Lily are left alone.  They talk, and also Jack asks Lily for a kiss, which she gives him.  She also tells him that the Kawamura family does not actually own the theater.  The Kawamura parents are also not citizens because Asians are allowed neither citizenship nor ownership of property.
     Lily tells her sister Dulcie about dating Jack but orders her not to tell the parents. Jack and Lily go out dancing, but ultimately the parents find out.  There is a huge scene at the dining room table, during which the father absolutely forbids Lily to have any contact with Jack.  After that, Mr. Kawamura fires Jack from his job at the theater and send Lily off to her aunt on Terminal Island.  Jack's attempt to talk with Mr. Kawamura (and declare his honorable intentions) fails.
     Lily returns from Terminal Island, however, and finds Jack packing his things because he has to leave the theater.  He proposes to her and they consummate their relationship.  Lily leaves her home carrying a small suitcase.  Her mother is sewing in the living room but says nothing as Lily leaves.  Then, because Asians and white Americans are forbidden to marry under California law, they go to Seattle, Washington, to be married by a justice of the peace on a rainy day. 
      A baby girl, Minae, is born and Jack works in a fish cannery plant.  Workers who are trying to organize a union are mistreated by plant management -- heavy loads of fish are dropped on them as they hold up a sign asking for fair wages and working conditions.  Jack breaks his promise to Lily and gets involved.  She is upset, leading to a major fight between them.  He goes to a demonstration the next day, where he is both injured and arrested.  Lily, waiting in vain for him to come home for dinner, is upset.
     She takes Minae home to Los Angeles to her parents, only to find out that her father has been arrested, along with other Japanese community leaders.  The Japanese navy has just attacked Pearl Harbor.  Jack hears this when he is released from prison.


Vocabulary:
さびしかった です    I was sad/lonely
まご          Grandchild
おばあさん       Grandmother
だいにじたいせん     Second World War


宿題 しゅくだい Homework
テスト の 勉強











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