Nisei_Daughter

Nisei Daughter Nisei Daughter Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, recalls the author’s childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. The book takes a look on how the Japanese culture was treated in this time. At a young age Monica realizes she is not like most little girls in America. Japanese were put in interment camps in 1942. But this isn’t the first time Monica notices a difference. She was small and in grammar school when the first signs began to appear. She knew she looked different, but she also sounded different at home. At home her family spoke in Japanese. Monica was known to her parents as Kazuko Monica Itoi. And after Kazuko was finished with her day at grammar school, she and the rest of the Japanese boys and girls went to Japanese school to learn the native language and etiquette. During a point in Kazuko’s childhood, her father is set up by two corrupt police men accusing for father of selling illegal sake. During dinner a police man interrupted the family and told Mr. Itoi that he was the one that was selling liquor to a bum on the street. The police had been tipped by the bum that a Japanese man, who owned japanese, itoi, kazuko’s, mrs, kazuko, mother, father, family, different, woman, police, later, girls, consul’s, wife, selling, out, monica, man, house, home, first, don’t, didn’t, after, while, school, sake, said, rest, one, mr, men, hotel, every, day