1. What is the significance of the stone imagery?
The bible-- "a white stone"--"a new name written" epigraph--"The word is stone." Uncle's stone bread (15-16) and his mug 2. Discuss other images in the novel:
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3. Gender and Japanese Immigrant Identities
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4. Language and Silence
¡§To the issei, honor and dignity is expressed through silence, the twig bending with the wind¡K.The sansei view silence as a dangerous kind of cooperation with the enemy.¡¨ --Joy Kagawa in an interview with Susan Yim
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