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1. In Chapter I, why is Minnow late getting home?

Minnow was walking out of George Washington High school head for the bus stop when he saw the football team practicing on the field, racing back and forth across the grass with the red towers of the Golden Gate Bridge rising behind the school. Before Minnow knew it, he was sitting in the bleachers with his sketchbook in his hands.

2. What happens when Minnow draws?

No one understands how Minnow gets wrapped up in drawing and gets transported onto the paper. The charcoal suspension cables and pencil players become more real to him than the bleachers or the grass or the school. When he returns to his body, it is hours later, everyone is gone, and he is walking home alone as the fog rolls in.

3. What did Minnow's mother do after the attack on Pearl Harbor and why?

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Minnow's mother dug into her trunks and began burning heirlooms in the fireplace. She started with the Japanese flag. Then she burned letters from relatives, Jii-chan's Imperial Army uniform, a woodblock print of ancestral warriors, and anything Japanese. She was not an American citizen and she was afraid if she was thought to be disloyal she would be taken away.

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