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In a community of "five thousand damp souls" (Guterson 5) as described by David Guterson in his novel, . A community that concentrated a variety of ethnicity, among them was both Whites and Japanese. As a result of the racial differences, racism ha ....

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.... mother, Etta, cheated them. She sold their seven acres of strawberry land to another farmer, because of lack of the last payment during their removal. This disreputable action she took, was caused by her racist thoughts that she had toward Japanese. This has been demonstrated out in her conversation with her husband, she said, "We’re not such paupers as to sell to Japs, are we? For new clothes? For a pouch of fancy pipe tobacco?" (Guterson 119). Because of her being racist, it had cost the land of the Miyamoto and raised tension between the two families and created a motive for Kabuo to commit murder to Etta’s son as for revenge a ....