How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
With no regular school to attend and no home to spend time in, it's no mystery that I should have been drawn to these two kind and generous women [the Maryknoll Catholic nuns]. They had organized a recreation program. They passed out candy. But what kept me coming back, once I started, were the tales of the unfortunate women like Saint Agatha, whose breasts were cut off when she refused to renounce her faith. (1.5.22)
The key word here is organized. What the nuns have on everyone else at the camp is organization. Planning, structure—that's how they're able to attract Jeanne in the first place. But it's their stories that keep Jeanne coming back, thereby cultivating her own dreams of becoming Catholic.
Quote #5
[…] I too was up there on the screen of history, in a white lace catechism dress, sweating and grimy, yet selflessly carrying my load. I fulfilled this little fantasy one blistering afternoon when the heat finally got me. Sunstroke. While crossing one of the wide sandy firebreaks that separated some of the blocks, I passed out.
Side note: Maybe being a martyr isn't all that it's cut out to be… even with that white catechism dress.
Quote #6
"Suppose we organize some kind of cooperative. For Japanese people coming back from the camps. We will design a housing project, and all the men looking for work will build houses…. We will get a loan from the government. At the block leaders meeting it was decided that they must provide low-interest loans for families returning from the camps. They cannot deprive us of our homes and our fishing boats and our automobiles and lock us up for three years and then just turn us loose into the cities again. They have to help us get a new start." (2.17.52)
Papa's plan for a cooperative outside of camp actually sounds like it could work. The only thing is this: he's basically trying to remake Manzanar outside of Manzanar, which isn't what most returnees are interested in—they want space and privacy. They've already had a few years of forced communal living, so why would they invest their own money in more communal living? It's a tough plan to sell.