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In Response to executive order 9066... By Dwight Okita
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In Response to Executive Order 9066... By Dwight Okita
By, Cassie G, Micheal H.
Dear Sirs:
Of course I’ll come. I’ve packed my galoshes
and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them
love apples. My father says where we’re going
they won’t grow.
I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling
and a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell you
I have always felt funny using chopsticks
and my favorite food is hot dogs.
My best friend is a white girl named Denise—
we look at boys together. She sat in front of me
all through grade school because of our names:
O’Connor, Ozawa. I know the back of Denise’s head very well.
I tell her she’s going bald. She tells me I copy on tests.
We’re best friends.
I saw Denise today in Geography class.
She was sitting on the other side of the room.
“You’re trying to start a war,” she said, “giving secrets
away to the Enemy. Why can’t you keep your big
mouth shut?”
I didn’t know what to say.
I gave her a packet of tomato seeds
and asked her to plant them for me, told her
when the first tomato ripened
she’d miss me.
Right a few sentences on what you think this poem is about.
Explanation
Stanza 1- The little girl wrights back to a guy, saying she is ready to head to the place they are bringing her, also talks about her tomato seeds.
Stanza 3- She tells the reader about her best friend, and how shes white. She says there best friends.
Stanza 4- Everything changes in the relationship, showing the conflict between white and Japanese.
Stanza 5- She gives a seed packet and asked her friend to plant them. Hoping and knowing her friend will miss her.
Historical Time Period
This poem was around world war 2 time period, during the time china and soviet union made a deal. The deal was that china had to become communist for the soviet union to give over nuclear power, and help. So china did, which lead to us getting rid of any Chinese American in America.
Author's life
- Born in 1958 in Chicago
- Has one older brothers, who has gift for photography.
- Japanese American, gay, and Buddhist.
- First book of poems was published in 1992: Crossing With The Light
- Wrote the "In response to the executive order 9066..." About his grandmother. Wondering how she said bye to her friend.
Symbol-The tomato seeds seem to represent something bigger then just seeds
- Friendship changes
- When things happen, so do people.
- In this poem their seems to be rebellion, which represents the White girl, and alienation which Represents the Japanese girl.
- The white girl is rebellioning against the Japanese girl,
- Everyone else is alienating the Japanese girl, or anyone who is Japanses.
Poem
Alienation + Rebellion
Work cited page
On this site, we got the poem-msavina.squarespace.com/.../FTM%20Reading%20-%20Dwight%20Okita%20poem.pdf
http://dwightland.homestead.com/WRITERPAGE.html- Gave us a bio of Dwight Okita
Theme
Something fun!
Literary terms
Conflict- The Japanese girl, and the white
girl.
Motif- Friendship is the dominate theme of this poem