"A woman sat in the passenger seat, staring straight ahead. The girl knew what the woman was staring at. She was staring at nothing."
To me this quote represents the dismal prospects that everyone in the train felt. Even a young girl could look around and realize that. She describes numerous people on the train with her, but this description really affected me more than the others because of how distinctly it describes their situation. They were all just uprooted, leaving their everything for nothing.
"In the beginning the boy thought he saw his father everywhere. Outside the latrines. Underneath the showers. Leaning against barrack doorways. Playing go with the other men in their floppy straw hats on the narrow wooden benches after lunch."
Sometimes reading historical documents of events like these camps during the war do not have the biggest effect on people. When just reading information on it, it seems like just that...information. But to see it from the perspective of someone who was actually there and experiencing it evokes an entirely different reaction. Especially through the eyes of a little boy. It is heart wrenching to see how having his father then his home taken away from him is affecting him.
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