Nisei Daughter essays

Nisei Daughter essays Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, recalls the authors childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. The book takes a look on how the Japanese culture was treated in this time. At a young age Monica realizes she is not like most little girls in America. Japanese were put in interment camps in 1942. But this isnt the first time Monica notices a difference. She was small and in grammar school when the first signs began to appear. She knew she looked different, but she also sounded different at home. At home her family spoke in Japanese. Monica was known to her parents as Kazuko Monica Itoi. And after Kazuko was finished with her day at grammar school, she and the rest of the Japanese boys and girls went to Japanese school to learn the native language and etiquette. During a point in Kazukos childhood, her father is set up by two corrupt police men accusing for father of selling illegal sake. During dinner a police man interrupted the family and told Mr. Itoi that he was the one that was selling liquor to a bum on the street. The police had been tipped by the bum that a Japanese man, who owned a hotel sold him the alcohol. Kazukos father did own a hotel and owned a hotel, but so did several other Japanese men on that street. Kazukos father insisted, Mine? Its not I dont drink,(35). The officer interrogated both Kazukos father and mother while rummaging haphazardly through the Itois kitchen looking for the rest of the sake. Mrs. Itoi knew there was something was strange and called out to the men, Dont think were such fools,(37). Kazukos father was trying to prove that he was innocent and instead of the officer listening, he arrested Mr. Itoi and took him down to jail. This incident showed Kazuko that her family was not ...