Ithink the saddest memory is the day we had to leave our farm. i know my mother and father were worried. they did not know what would happen to us. we had no idea where we would be sent. people were all crying and many families were upset. some believed we would not be treated well, and maybe killed. there were many disturbing rumors. everyone was easily upset and there were many arguments. it was a horrible experience for all of us, the old people like my grandparents, my parents and children like me. we were all innocent. the government had no real reason to send us into these camps. there were racists who did not want the japanese to own land and begin to prosper. racism, prejudice, greed, and lack of political leadership caused the evacuation and internment.

in writing, walk through the process of finding the main idea. then, describe the main idea of the excerpt and why it is central.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

This is the political, social, cultural, and economic 'time and place' surrounding the creation of a literary text.

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