How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
In the months before the riot the bells rang often at our mess halls, sending out the calls for public meetings. They rang for higher wages, they rang for better food, they rang for open revolt, for patriotism, for common sense, and for a wholesale return to Japan. Some meetings turned into shouting sessions. Some led to beatings. One group tried to burn down the general store. Assassination threats were commonplace. (1.9.3)
Don't get fooled by all those stories of the pretty rock gardens, farms, plants that the internees built. Yeah there was a peaceful and productive side to camp life, but there was also some serious, explosive anger. That's what happens you put a bunch of people into crowded, crappy conditions against their will. People will revolt.
Quote #8
All the class pictures are in there, from the seventh grade through twelfth, with individual head shots of seniors, their names followed by the names of the high schools they would have graduated from on the outside: Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Herbert Hoover, Sacred Heart. (2.12.16)
We've got this completely normal thing—a school yearbook that's supposed to bind this community of kids at camp. And then there's this reality check printed right into the yearbook: these kids had other schools they once belonged to or should have belonged to. Camp becomes more like a parallel or alternate universe.
Quote #9
The fact that America had accused us, or excluded us, or imprisoned us, or whatever it might be called, did not change the kind of world we wanted. Most of us were born in this country; we had no other models. Those parks and gardens lent it an oriental character, but in most ways it was a totally equipped American small town, complete with schools, churches, Boy Scouts, beauty parlors, neighborhood gossip, fire and police departments, glee clubs, softball leagues, Abbot and Costello movies, tennis courts, and traveling shows. (2.12.12)
It just goes to show, people will make (or remake) a home wherever they are and that home is much more than just a house. It is all of those places and activities that turn a place into a community, especially one that can survive all the bad stuff.