Lecturette

For the following lecturette, please become familiar with the terms and ideas below. If needed, you may print this page, or write out your own notes, but please consider the questions posed, as they may come up in class discussion.


 * Lecturette ** - Introductory Literary Terms and Historical Background for //When the Emperor Was Divine //
 * Objective ** - For students to better understand the historical context of Japanese Internment after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Literary Terms and Important Historical Elements

 * Static Character ** - character that does not change throughout the course of a literary work
 * Dynamic Character **- character that does change throughout the course of a literary work


 * Historical Fiction **- fictional work based on a historical context; looks at the private, interior lives of the characters
 * ====== Japanese American family - one family, no names ======
 * ======Why?======
 * ====== Universal idea **-** represents the 110,000 Japanese Americans who endured racism and displacement by the United States Government. ======
 * ======Foreshadowing - lives in camp, what happens to identities?======

 **Click link to get text of document** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154/__] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Executive Order 9066 **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- signed by FDR in 1942. Until loyalty could be determined, Japanese Americans were detained in camps, losing their homes, jobs, businesses, and belongings. It was believed to be a military necessity.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Civil Rights **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Rights that protect an individual’s civil liberties and ability to act without begin discriminated against.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Consider: Is it ever justifiable to violate a citizen’s civil rights?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If so, when? Why?