Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410355373
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A Study Guide for Yoshiko Uchida's "Picture Bride," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Yoshiko Uchida's "Picture Bride"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410355373
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A Study Guide for Yoshiko Uchida's "Picture Bride," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410355373
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A Study Guide for Yoshiko Uchida's "Picture Bride," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
NOVELS FOR STUDENTS
Author: CENGAGE LEARNING. GALE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535830881
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535830881
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Picture Bride
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295976167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers; Dr. Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted land he loves. All are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295976167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers; Dr. Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted land he loves. All are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps.
Desert Exile
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned. Replaces ISBN 9780295961903
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned. Replaces ISBN 9780295961903
Journey to Topaz
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780833500618
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Like any 11-year-old, Yuki Sakane is looking forward to Christmas when her peaceful world is suddenly shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Uprooted from her home and shipped with thousands of West Coast Japanese Americans to a desert concentration camp called Topaz, Yuki and her family face new hardships daily.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780833500618
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Like any 11-year-old, Yuki Sakane is looking forward to Christmas when her peaceful world is suddenly shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Uprooted from her home and shipped with thousands of West Coast Japanese Americans to a desert concentration camp called Topaz, Yuki and her family face new hardships daily.
Picture Bride with Related Readings
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028180212
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028180212
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Journey Home
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780714250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Japanese American family struggles to survive a U.S. internment camp and the prejudice they encounter after their release.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780714250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Japanese American family struggles to survive a U.S. internment camp and the prejudice they encounter after their release.
This Land We Call Home
Author: Alison Lohans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869705916
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
It is 1941 in rual California. Paula Harmon and Ken Nishimura have been friends and neighbours for as long as they can remember. But around them racial tension mounts as World War II intensifies and Pearl Harbor is bombed. Suddenly, Ken and his family are considered enemies in their own country and Paula and Ken's friendship is tested by the horrifying events that follow. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869705916
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
It is 1941 in rual California. Paula Harmon and Ken Nishimura have been friends and neighbours for as long as they can remember. But around them racial tension mounts as World War II intensifies and Pearl Harbor is bombed. Suddenly, Ken and his family are considered enemies in their own country and Paula and Ken's friendship is tested by the horrifying events that follow. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
No-no Boy
Author: John Okada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Simple Recipes
Author: Madeleine Thien
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316087130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
With delicate language and wisdom, Madeleine Thien explores the longing of families pulled apart by conflicts between generations, cultures, and values.Each of these stories captures a deeply personal world in which characters struggle to reconcile family loyalty with individual desires. In "House," a 10-year-old girl longs for the alcoholic mother who left the house one day never to return. In "Dispatch," a woman tries to hold her marriage together even after finding proof that her husband is in love with someone else. In "A Map of the City, " a young woman's troubled relationship with her father overshadows the course she takes in her adult life. Thien's fresh perspective and spare, haunting prose have already won her prizes and the praise of established masters. "Simple Recipes" is the beginning of a luminous writing career.
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316087130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
With delicate language and wisdom, Madeleine Thien explores the longing of families pulled apart by conflicts between generations, cultures, and values.Each of these stories captures a deeply personal world in which characters struggle to reconcile family loyalty with individual desires. In "House," a 10-year-old girl longs for the alcoholic mother who left the house one day never to return. In "Dispatch," a woman tries to hold her marriage together even after finding proof that her husband is in love with someone else. In "A Map of the City, " a young woman's troubled relationship with her father overshadows the course she takes in her adult life. Thien's fresh perspective and spare, haunting prose have already won her prizes and the praise of established masters. "Simple Recipes" is the beginning of a luminous writing career.