January+21-Short+Stories-Jason+Flashner

1/20/11 Role Call: What is True Evil?

Why is Fred Korematsu invisible? · You need to stand up to be noticed. · When one person stands up against the majority, the majority tries to keep them quiet. · History is written by the victor, he didn’t win his case/ the Japanese didn’t win the war. Descriptive language · Allusion to Rosa Parks o She is famous, build him up, to break him down · “Details of internment were locked behind a wall of repression” –Metaphor o The Japanese people did not speak of their experiences, they were locked away · “A generation of Japanese-Americans who were beginning to remember, at long last, what their parents had labored to forget.” Most common technique of descriptive language – Concrete Detail
 * Allusion- an indirect reference to a famous image or figure**
 * He Said No To Internment **
 * Saved by Strangers **



Why is this story invisible? · It is a common story, it happened so many times over the course of WWII · These were oral stories not many are ever written down Descriptive Language · The farmhouse sat on a grassy saddle between mountain ranges, a natural stopping point for P.O.W.’s picking their way south toward the Allies. o Concrete detail- really draws out the landscape o Metaphor – Grassy saddle o Juicy verbs- Picking · The flaming colors of autumn and the toy like villages stacked into the hills o Unique modifiers- flaming colors, toy like · Being hunted by soldiers with dogs can kill a person’s faith, but there are simple things that can revive it. o Personification ·
 * Chasing Evil **

· He was the assistant to Hitler, so he was in the background Descriptive Language · Malkin worried that his body and mind would determinate irreparably before he could be put on trial. o Imagery · The removal of the blindfold- Malkin wanted desperately to see into him. o Metaphor- wanted desperately to see into him, not to see organs but to see his sole. · Malkin used the maps for inspiration, to pull himself back into the past, back toward people and scenes that had floated by in his widely traveled, covert life.

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