Summary

As the children grew more fluent in English, they steadily began to forget Japanese words. They also began to forget Japanese customs and religious ideas. Although the children quickly grasped English, the parents had much more difficulty learning the language. The parents sent the children to study Japanese on the weekends, but this did not help the children regain any fluency in Japanese. The children began to choose westernized names for themselves. Often, the children were given these new names by classmates or teachers. As the children grew older, they developed more distinct personalities and interests. The families were still, in general, fairly poor, and the parents pursued various lines of work in order to support themselves and their children. As the children entered adolescence, most of them were taller, heavier, and generally louder than their parents. The children became generally averse to their...