showed his beleifs in his books. An example of the is Snow Falling on Cedars. Drawing on his personal experience in the Pacific Northwest and eight years of careful research, Guterson vividly portrays the culture of San Piedro, a socially isolated island. The novel details how San Piedro's Japanese American residents, long the victims of unarticulated prejudice, find themselves at the center of a raging war hysteria in the 1940s. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was swept with a raging war hysteria. More than a hundred thousand Japanese Americans, two thirds of them native born citizens, were branded potential traitors and herded into internment camps. It would be almost fifty years before the U. S. Government officially apologized for the violation of their civil rights. In 1954, the characters of Guterson's book still regard their Japanese neighbors with suspicion and hatred. Nine years after the war, Kabuo Miyamoto finds himself the focus of smoldering racial tensions when he is charged with murdering a popular local fisherman, Carl Heine. Guterson writes about "The San Piedro small town atmosphere in the 1950's and it i

Ishmael tries to be as "morally meticulous" as Arthur was in his reporting, but his memories of the war make it difficult. Cynical and angry, Ishmael finds it difficult to like anyone or anything.

The entire book is filled with racism, such as, since the injury looked somewhat like a mark that is made when someone attacks using the art of kendo to the coroner, so Kabou was put to trial on that little amount of evidence. Some of the Americans were using the trial in a way to get back at the Japanese, because of the war and the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Guterson said he wanted to successfully bring to light, what Japanese Americans had to go through because of the war. He said he studied eight years about the war, internment camps, pearl harbor, and specific hate crimes that happened to some Japanese-Americans. Guterson said," One day I saw in the paper that a Japanese man around 32 had been put to trial for the killing of three people, and the paper saying that he did this to them and that to them, and then a month later he was aquitted of all charges because there was no physical evidence. And I thought to myself, they wanted him to pay, pay for something he didn't even do, just because he was Japanese they we

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