![]() ![]() ![]() They have relatively little political power to intervene when the whole country has turned against them. The issei are mostly immigrants, though some are US citizens. Frank immediately makes the connection between the frog and the situation of the Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, and although his anger is justified, it is an oversimplification of the balance of power at work in their situation. Alex writes, “Did you know that if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will instantly leap out? But if you put it into room-temperature water, and then slowly heat the water, the frog will stupidly remain in there until it overheats and dies” (67). The notion comes from an experiment that Alex was forced to conduct in his science class on Bainbridge Island, in which students were to catch a frog, then place it in a pot over a flame. ![]() This concept is represented throughout the story with the theme of the frog in the pot, expressed in two variations: the boiling frog and the leaping frog. Evil arises when good people do nothing to stop it, or when people are too tired to resist. For Japanese American Alex Maki, the world in 1935 mostly consists of reading and drawing comics. 7, 2020 Friends separated by an ocean experience the traumas of World War II. ![]() READ REVIEW 0 THIS LIGHT BETWEEN US by Andrew Fukuda RELEASE DATE: Jan. Reflecting on the changing character of her city, Charlie writes “But this is how evil grows, no? When good people are too tired” (76). An intriguing premise and fascinating tale. ![]()
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