Chapter 1

1.The woman point of view.

2.The woman sees a poster in the window. It is list of things she can bring.

3.A few days pass between the appearance of the notice and the rest of the events. She has packed all the things in her house away. She locks all the stuff in one room, she lets the bird free and she kills her dog.

4.The woman buys twine, and two rolls of tape. She tapes the boxes with the tape and ties up her dog with the twine. Mr. Lundy might keep insisting that she can pay him later because he knew she was going in to an internment camp.

5.The family possessions that the woman and children pack are not much. They are some clothes and a picture and the boys baseball glove. It shows that they are not very attached to the past. The bonsai tree shows that they are letting go of their Japanese roots.

6.The woman was following the rules when it comes to packing and in the internment camp.

7.The woman kills White Dog because they could not take him. She does not really say anything about his disappearance except affirming that the dog is old and cannot hear well. She also lies to the children about where they are going and such.

8.The boy is so insistent on keeping his hat on because it is a present from his father.

9.She is of Japanese descent.

10.She asks her mother to make her practice for her piano lesson so that she could have some authority, but she always does.

11.She begins to cry when she sits down after freeing the bird. She relates to the song “La donna e mobile”.

12.The author is so vague about their destination because the people who were headed to internment camps did not know where they were going, and they went blindly in to the desert.

Chapter 2

1.The girl’s point of view dominates this chapter. The author begins to describe the girl.

2.A day has passed since the family has left their home, and they had ridden on the bus, having people stare and soliders bausing them around.

3.She has not had time.

4.She sees people coming home from church, a couple riding bikeson a bridge.

5.The soldier tells her that so that people in towns could not see the passengers on the train and would no throw thingslike they did.

6.The boy had a new interest in horses because of his time at a horse stable, the grownups tell him to grow up to be a big strong American boy. But he is American born.

7.He is on that train and had to give up his money.

8.I think the story about her father is true because of how international his affairs were to make him seem threatening. She may tell Ted that her father never writes to her to make him feel sorry for her.

9.It is striking that the boy actually chooses not to bring along the umbrella.

10.He is in jail.

11.Tanforan is a horse stable, the boy and girl worked there and the boy realized he wanted to be a jockey there.

12.The woman is observing this crossing, and the quote may mean that since they are moving to the desert she needs to remember the sound of water to live.