"Snow Falling On Cedars"

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Discusses theme of intolerance in David Gutterson's novel. Internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two. Role of intolerance in murder investigation and townspeople's percenptions of Miyamoto. The outsider as foreigner and victim of hatred. Examples of intolerance in Miyamoto's murder trial, in the life of the town, and in the judgments of Miyamoto.

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"Kabuo Miyamoto in David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars is a victim of intolerance and that victimization has helped shape him as a man. He was placed in an internment camp, along with other Japanese-Americans, on the basis of racism and nothing else. He, along with the others, was seen as an enemy of the nation on the basis of his racial heritage, his skin color, his facial features, his name, and for no other reasons. Intolerance and fear dictated the public policy which treated American citizens of Japanese heritage as enemies. There was absolutely no evidence that Miyamoto had committed any crime against the United States or posed any danger to the United States, but he was placed in an internment camp nevertheless, based solely on racial prejudice and intolerance.

With respect to the murder of Carl Heine, even that evidence ..."

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