Toward evening, the girl takes out a letter that her father wrote to her. Most of the time, her father writes about the weather and his good health before asking questions about the family. In this letter, however, he wrote a P.S. note, but it was blackened out by the censors. The soldier comes through the train again, telling everyone to put their shades down.
the girl wakes up to the sound of a window breaking -someone has thrown a brick through the window. Startled and confused the girl asks the mother where the white dog is.
On the first day in the camp, his mother tells him to never touch the fences, and to never to say the Emperor’s name aloud
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One evening, the woman is carrying a bucket of water back to the barracks when she runs into her former maid, Mrs. Ueno. The maid immediately takes the bucket from the woman and helps her bring it to the barracks. The woman tells Ms. Ueno that she doesn’t work for her here, and that they’re all equals now, but the former maid doesn’t listen.
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Other times he thinks he’s still dreaming and that he’ll wake up to find his father making breakfast in the kitchen.
The soldiers tell them that they were brought to the camp as a matter of national security, and as an opportunity to prove their loyalty.
The woman, the girl, and the boy are assigned a room in a barrack not far from the fence. There is a window above the boy’s bed, and when he looks out he sees the rows of barracks and the guard towers where soldiers carry machine guns.