How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
It occurred to him, too, that for all his arrogance Horace Whaley had been right. For here was the Jap with the bloody gun butt Horace had suggested he look for. Here was the Jap he'd been led to inexorably by every islander he'd spoken with. (18.86)
Here we're dipping into Art Moran's mind through free indirect discourse. He now seems to be convinced of Miyamoto's guilt, viewing this conclusion as somehow "inexorable." Because he's inwardly using the same slurs that Horace and others throw around so liberally, it appears that Art's looking at the case through his own lens of prejudice.
Quote #11
"The counsel for the state," added Nels Gudmundsson, "has proceeded on the assumption that you will be open, ladies and gentlemen, to an argument based on prejudice. He has asked you to look closely at the face of the defendant, presuming that because the accused man is of Japanese descent you will see an enemy there. […] If you see in his face a lack of emotion, if you see in him a silent pride, it is the pride and hollowness of a veteran of war who has returned home to this. He has returned to find himself the victim of prejudice—make no mistake about it, this trial is about prejudice—in the country he fought to defend." (29.10)
In his closing arguments, Nels finally calls out the elephant in the room, namely the racism and xenophobia that's been coloring everyone's impressions of Miyamoto. He makes a compelling plea for people to put those feelings aside... unfortunately, all of the jury members except one march right out and vote to convict.