Evacuation Order No 19 By Julie Otsuka

The middle of the novel details the transgression of the family’s lives from color into grayscale, a decline paralleled by the bleaching of their identities in the dust of the day and the staining of them in their reminiscence at night; they wear the black and white stripes of a prisoner. For instance, family’s marginalization was represented symbolically when the boy “wrote his name in the dust across the top of the table. All through the night, while he slept, more dust blew through the walls. By morning his name was gone” (64). The disappearance of the boy’s name via a motif of dust is the figurative manifestation of the idea that the world considers all the Japanese American prisoners to be the same; the boy is just one detainee among a sea of identical enemies. Moreover, Otsuka included another layer to that facelessness; the 4 family members are known only as “the boy,” “the girl,” “his/her father,” and “his/her mother,” their names never mentioned. The family once had a place in the world, and that has been stripped away from them with their individuality. However, the family is never complacent in their predicament, with each person dealing with their predicament differently. The boy in

These six individuals were inspired and came up with clever ideas to survive this difficult time. For example, “Mr. Matsuo dashed up the front steps and dived among the bedrolls and buried himself there. Mr. Tanimoto took four of five steps and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden” (9). Mr Matsuo’s actions inspired others to act and save themselves from harm. In a traumatic situation, it is natural to be in shock and not respond to the danger. “Mrs. Nakamura suggested going over to fight it. Mrs. Hataya said, “Don’t be foolish. What if planes come and drop more bombs?” So Mrs. Nakamura started out for Asano Park with her children and Mrs. Hataya” (28). A natural instinct for human beings is to go help others but in this case someone needed to tell Mrs. Nakamura that by doing so she would place herself and her children in danger. In difficult times, people need to be told what is best for them because they can not see it for themselves. Furthermore, “His desk was in splinters all over the room, but a mere paper-mâché suitcase, which he

Otsuka shows us this saying, “she sat by the stove for hours not talking. In her lap lay a half finished letter and an open book. She wore a thick woolen scarf around her neck. When the dinner bell rang she sat up with a start. In her mind there were always men at the door we just need to ask your husband a few questions.”(93).Otsuka goes on to say,“Sometimes I don't know if I'm awake or sleep’ ‘you're awake’ The boy would tell her”(94). This quote really stresses how much this life-changing stress is affecting the mother by showing The reader her response to the situation. The way she responds to seeing the evacuation notice, and takes charge, and the way she tries to cope with being in the camp are opposite. The mother's response to being in the camp is to stray from society, and to keep herself in her own world making her lose her grip on

Abstract: This thesis attempts to analyse the relationship between physical and psychological escape as reflected in Su Tong’s “Fleeing in 1934”, Yu Hua’s “1986”, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Textual analysis reveals that Su Tong’s delineation of escape is external but the influence becomes internal as villagers’ morality has been lost as a result of the escape, whereas Yu Hua and Kurt Vonnegut’s representation of escape emphasises on the psychical escape when both protagonists in the novels look for derangement as a means of escape. Coincidently, the three novelists all agree on the same notion of the inescapability of history.

Such incredible pandemonium was involved with virtually all of the Rudkus family's daily activities and never ceased to cause anxiety and worry in their overburdened lives. This desolation drove family members to radical attempts at survival and hope for some means of liberation from their atrocious new lives in America. At

The author incorporates personal bias in the book Zeitoun to demonstrate the horrors of death and separation during Hurricane katrina. The author's portrayal of Zeitoun as a devoted father made readers feel a sense of loss and anguish at his disappearance: “There is nothing worse than this, Kathy thought, there can be nothing worse than this” (Eggers 185). Kathy trying to assure her daughter that her father was living, gave the reader a glance of the pain other families faced when they had no communication with their family members after Katrina. Zeitoun’s depiction of a benevolent man who feels guilt for not being able to save the dogs. “The dogs were just under the windowsill a tangle of limbs heads to heaven as if they had been waiting for

The First-person point of view often allows readers to experience the immediacy of the narrator’s feelings. What details in lines 35-41 help you identify with the narrator?

The evacuation was explained as a security precaution. The war with Japan was going badly. At the end of 1941, the Japanese had carried out a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. This convinced people in BC that a Japanese invasion was certain.This was done in reaction to Japan attacking Pearl Harbour which made the people in BC think there was going to be an invasion. The BC residents had a long history of discrimination against the Japanese, Chinese and South Asians. People suspected that Japanese Canadians would feel more loyalty to their country or origin and become spies and saboteurs on its behalf. There is no evidence that this ever happened but such was the strength of public prejudice that the government

Bill King, expert on evacuation techniques, in his editorial “Houston’s Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate” (Aug. 28, 2017) argues that Houston’s Mayor Sylvester Turner decision to not order mandatory evacuations during the hurricane proved to be the best choice. He develops his argument by first establishing the destructive power of hurricanes by referencing the “disastrous evacuation” during Hurricane Rita which resulted in daylong traffic jams and 130 deaths; second, by affirming his credibility: asserting his involvement on a governor’s commission board that studied the errors of current evacuation techniques; third, by including the fact that flooding from rainfall is highly unpredictable, which means the areas that will be flooded are unpredictable

The question some if not many people have is "Can I be charged and/or arrested for failing to heed a mandatory evacuation order. The answer is yes, but not likely.

The people associated with this passage are Nesterov and Leo. This passage is important for two reason. The first reason being why the books title is child 44 and the second reason being the realization of how many kids have been murdered. Back then I guess people really would rather believe that more than one person was doing this but in reality it was one mass murderer doing this. In my eyes I see it as they would rather it not be one person because that means that one person has been killing children all around and nobody has come to realize it.

to avoid being thrown into jail or tortured, they had to follow and obey the

How does this passage reflect the theme or author’s message for this book as a whole?

Evacuation plan will be initiated, especially for projected impact areas. Clear all communities in the path pf the storm will be clear out, mobile homes should mandatorily be required to find the nears shelters. First responders including law enforcement, EMS and the fire department should be activated. Every home in the evacuation area should be visited personnel by a responder to ensure they are aware of the order to evacuate and the location of shelters in the nearby area.

Now let 's think about some other uses of the shovel. It is well known that people die. It is also commonplace practice to bury these people in the ground. So far this has been a good system that is until the zombie apocalypse, but that’s another subject. There is the issue of how to dig a hole big enough to fit a human body with a respectable amount of space for the deceased. This is where the shovel comes in! It revolutionized the process of caring for deceased people. It led to much more respect for the deceased because of their comfortable resting place. The shovel made the burial