So Far from the Sea

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So Far from the Sea

• By Eve Bunting
• Report By Eleanor Morse

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The Main Character

• The main character in So Far from the Sea is a
  girl named Laura. Laura is a half Japanese girl
  whos father was in a internment camp called
  Manzanar and also her grandfather died in that
  camp. She is visiting the camp one more time
  because she is moving to Boston, Massachusetts.

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A Picture of Manzanar

• This is a picture of Manzanar that was
  probably taken more than sixty year ago.

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Some questions I asked when I was reading the
story

• Why did the Americans put all the
  Japanese-Americans in internment camps?
• Why are they visiting Manzanar?
• Why are they standing next to a gravestone on the
  cover?
• How did the grandfather dye?

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Some Predictions I asked in the story

• I think Americans put all the Japanese-Americans
  in Japanese internment camps because they thought
  they were doing something wrong against the
  Americans.
• I think they are visiting Manzanar because they
  never going to get to visit it for a long time
  since they are going to move to Boston.
• I think that they are standing next to a
  gravestone because it represents someone very
  important who died at Manzanar.
• The grandfather probably died of old age.

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Some clues that I found in the story

• On one of the pages it shows the Japanese setting
  a bomb in pearl harbor which is in Hawaii. From
  this picture I inferred that the Japanese were
  doing something bad and that people were going to
  get hurt.
• I the text it says that they were moving to
  Boston and this is probably going to be the
  last time they are going to visit Manzanar.
• In the text Lauras dad says Just a little bit
  farther to his grave.
• In one of the pictures it show the grandfather
  eating and he looked pretty old so I guess that
  he died of old age.

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Answers

• They put all the Japanese-Americans in Japanese
  internment camps because the Japanese set a bomb
  in America and the Americans thought the
  Japanese-Americans were being spies for the
  Japanese government.
• They are visiting Manzanar because the
  grandfather was buried there.
• The monument on the cover wasnt really a
  gravestone of someone. It was telling people
  that there was a Cemetery right there.
• The grandfather died of .

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Connections

• One connection is that my grandfather was put
  into a internment camp called Topaz when he was
  12 years old.
• My 2nd connection is that my great aunt Marie was
  put in Manzanar.
• My 3rd connection is that I saw an exhibit on
  Manzanar in California.

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The End
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• So far from the sea was a fictional story but
  Manzanar was a real place and there still is
  that little grave yard in the very back.

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Pictures of people at Manzanar