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Native Americans of Puget Sound
"Major groups or tribes of Native Americans in the Puget Sound region include the Suquamish, Duwamish, Nisqually, Snoqualmie, and Muckleshoot. They evolved complex cultural, social, and economic structures..."(https://www.historylink.org/File/1506).
"Its members were murdered almost immediately upon setting foot on the beach by a party of Nootka slave raiders."(Guterson 7)
The author wants to describe how it was in the war zone.
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European Settlers of Puget Sound
“Europeans learn what is Seattle and try to remained peaceful and they encountered members of the Nootka, Suquamish, Duwamish,...” (https://www.thenewstribune.com)
“Settlers arrived mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail.” (Guterson 7)
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Alien Land Laws
“Alien land laws are most often associated with western states' attempts to limit the presence and permanence of Japanese immigrants from 1913 through the end of World War II” (https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/)
“Let it be known that this court is not concerned with any perpetrators of violations against our state’s now blessedly so defunct Alien Land Law” (Guterson 62).
People are not want to follow the Alien Land Laws and try to abolish it. -
Pearl Harbor
“The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii” (www.history.com).
“He remembered, too, his father’s face, and the sword his father kept inside a wooden chest in the days before Pearl Harbor”(Guterson 82). Ismael is thinking his father during this events. -
Military recruitment and propaganda during WWII
“During active American involvement in World War II, propaganda was used to increase support for the war and commitment to an Allied victory such as recruited the young to go war.” (www.history.com)
“Ishmael Chambers trained as a marine rifleman with seven hundred and fifty other recruits at Parris Island, South Carolina, in the late summer of 1942” (Guterson 114).
Guterson describe how men were recruited around America. -
Japanese American Internment
“Japanese American internment, the forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II.” (https://www.britannica.com/event/Japanese-American-internment)
“These were boys from the internment camps, enlistees headed for the European theater, and among them, Sergeant Maples recalled, was the defendant, Kabuo Miyamoto” (Guterson 137).
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Battle of Tarawan
“The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that was fought on 20–23 November 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands” (https://en.wikipedia.org).
“There were guys who prayed at Tarawa. They still got killed, Mother. Just like the guys who didn’t pray. It didn’t matter either way.” (Guterson 167). The quote above is from Ismael. He says that because he know that there will no hope and everything will be destructive if you pray or not. -
Dear John Letter
“A Dear John letter is a letter written to a man by his wife or romantic partner to inform him that their relationship is over”(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_John_letter).
“I don’t love you, Ishmael. I can think of no more honest way to say it. From the very beginning, when we were little children, it seemed to me something was wrong” (Guterson 493).
Hatsue told Ishmael that she does not love him anymore. -
Battle of Okinawa
“ The Battle of Okinawa (April 1, 1945-June 22, 1945) was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. The United States Marine and Army Forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.” (www.history.com)
“Carl Heine, a man who had endured the sinking of the Canton and who, like Horace himself, had survived Okinawa only to die” (Guterson 76).
The question want to says that people risk their life for the country but get nothing from the country. -
Pearl Harbor Memorial
“The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorates the events of that day.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial)
